The taxi was screaming though the streets of Vienna on August 12, 1982. I sat plastered against the back seat with a smile of child-like joy covering my face. “Yes, this is really happening. It has now come to this. I am in the beautiful capital of Austria on a mad dash ride down to …
Month: May 2020
Encounter at the Wall
The day had finally come. The day for which every Jew yearns. At least every Jew who has been alive since June of 1967, when Israel took back the Temple Mount in the heart of Jerusalem in a six-day war with its Arab neighbors. I was in Israel for the first time as part of …
Lost Man Standing
Standing on Interstate 40, west of Greensboro, North Carolina in May of 1972, trying to hitchhike a ride to the mountain town of Montreat, I had no idea that my life was about to be radically invaded and forever changed by a visitor from an unseen realm. My best friend, John Grubbs, had suggested that …
Mourning for Messiah
During the current Covid-19 crisis my attention has been drawn to the plight of the Hasidic Jewish community in New York City. They have been hit very hard by illness and death, way beyond proportion to their numbers. Hasidic Jews are a very tight-knit community, with large families living in homes and apartments, and many …
The Story of Israel and the Gentiles
Israel has had so many starts and stops and hesitations and renewals and falls in their history. The Messiah's first coming and the subsequent pouring out on Israel His Spirit on Shavuot was a major restart and reboot of the whole history of Israel, a galvanizing of the restoration of Israel from apostasy. Even though …
No Apologies
None of the Hebrew prophets, up through and including Yeshua of Nazareth, ever apologized afterward for any of their pronouncements of judgment, catastrophe and doom that would lead to great suffering. Suffering must have a beneficial and restoring purpose in the mind and will of a loving, merciful God, for He is the One who …
ZEALOUS FOR ZION 