“Man, I was walking uphill the entire time!” It’s what I thought when I looked back over the stretch of road I had just walked near my Dead Sea hotel. I’d been walking 4.5-7 miles per day 7 days a … Continue reading →

“Joshua went and defeated the Anakites…only in Gaza, Gath and Ashdod did any survive. So Joshua took the entire land, just as the LORD had direct Moses and he gave it as an inheritance to Israel.” (Joshua 11:21a,22b-23) Joshua modeled … Continue reading →

In the book Fearless, the story of Navy Seal Adam Brown, the author shares about Adam’s checkered past, which if known to those in his group, could have sunk his career. One day while relaxing on a pier watching a … Continue reading →

Today we learned from our Arab brothers in Bethlehem about the ancient world’s version of a flashlight. People would take a clay lamp, like the one pictured here, fill it with a little olive oil as to not spill it … Continue reading →

We were in a Druze village bringing humanitarian aid to poor families when I spotted this tree. It’s a pomegranate tree where the fruit was left to rot on the tree. It was never picked and eaten or used. What … Continue reading →