26 October 2012 - 10 Marheshwan 5773

Pastor Ali grew up Muslim but not religious. Once married and with children, he found that he was in a cycle of alcoholism and rage. He beat his wife every day, he says. He was ashamed but couldn’t help himself.Eventually his friends advised him to go seek Allah’s help by going on hajj, pilgrimage to Mecca.
10 August 2012 - 22 Menahem Av 5772

Sometimes living in Israel feels like a crash course in spiritual warfare. If the LORD has taught us anything its how close spiritual and physical warfare can be. God is teaching us to listen to His voice and know when He has released us to move forward!
18 July 2012 - 28 Tamuz 5772

Here is the next generation of worshipers and intercessors willing to press into God for His will to be done in the Middle East. These are young men and women willing to share in one another’s culture. Jews dancing to Arabic music. Arabs singing in Hebrew.
7 June 2012 - 17 Sivan 5772

Tass joined the Palestinian Liberation Organization at 17 because Yasser Arafat was his hero. Tass was trained as a sniper. His job was to take out Israeli unit commanders.
23 May 2012 - 2 Sivan 5772

Sunday was the 28th of Iyar on the Jewish calendar, the 45th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem — Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day. So many — but mostly “national religious” teenagers — filled the streets of Jerusalem to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the restoration of all of Jerusalem into Jewish control.
7 May 2012 - 15 Iyar 5772

Paul tell us that Yeshua is our Passover lamb sacrificed for us. Even when doing the modern, Rabbinical Jewish seder, one sees Messiah all over it. But in the Samaritan Passover we get the closest to seeing what an observant Jew would have practiced and seen through the Temple periods. When Paul says Jesus is our Passover, when John the Baptist introduces his cousin as “the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”, this is what they were visualizing.
26 April 2012 - 4 Iyar 5772
23 August 2011 - 23 Menahem Av 5771

I want to share some specific stories and thoughts on the happenings of Elav, but things have gotten busy for me in Israel. I missed one appointment this morning, so instead of fretting too much, I put myself to work. With more pictures and fewer words, you can see Elav unfold. I still hope later [...]
17 August 2011 - 17 Menahem Av 5771
When Israel comes up in the news, often it is bad news: the Israeli army abused prisoners; the Gaza extremists are bombing south Israel; Israel is building where the world thinks it shouldn’t; Arabs are rioting in Jerusalem. And it goes on and on. I’m here to report — quoting Succat Hallel’s Rick Ridings — [...]
15 August 2011 - 15 Menahem Av 5771
For Messiah is our peace, who made both [Jews and gentiles] into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall, by abolishing in His flesh the enmity … so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thus establishing peace, and might reconcile them both in one body to [...]