We checked out of our beautiful hotel on the Dead Sea this morning. The only good thing about that is that we’re headed to Jerusalem later today. This morning we began at Masada. What an unbelievable feat of building and engineering Masada was…

This morning we said goodbye to the Sea of Galilee and headed south. Our first stop being Harod Spring in the Jezreel Valley. Here we saw Gideon’s Spring. For seven years the Israelites had been doing evil in the sight of the Lord worshipping Baal…

Another beautiful day here in Israel! Our morning began with a visit to Capernaum. In Hebrew the word Capernaum is two words meaning Village of Nahum. It was here that Jesus based his ministry. Capernaum was a busy community…

This morning we took a boat ride on the Sea of Galilee. This may have been my favorite experience, at least until tomorrow. It was a beautiful spring morning and we rode on the boat listening to songs like How Great Thou Art… 

This morning as we left Tel Aviv, Pastor Matt Montgomery from Pennsylvania shared with us from Acts 12 where Herod Agrippa was struck dead by an angel of the Lord because he tried to make himself equal with God…

We landed at 10 am Israeli time to perfectly clear sunshine. 70 degree weather was a treat coming from the Northeast where it was cold and snowy. As we landed in Tel Aviv, looking out the window at my first glimpse of Israel in almost 20 years…