Passover 2014
Tonight on April 14 at sundown begins the 2014 Passover week, heralded by a full moon which this year will be darkened into a “blood moon” by an unusual eclipse (see previous post). Observant believers will be celebrating a ceremonial meal called a Seder following an age-old format outlined in a book of order called a Haggadah or “text” which contains biblical narrative about the exodus of the Hebrew people from their captivity in Egypt under God’s miraculous leadership through Moses. Click here to read more about the Seder and its significance for today. And if...
Read MoreChrist, Our Passover
Please read the attached article written by David Kubal, president of Intercessors for America, entitled The Heavens are Speaking, and prayerfully meditate on your relationship with Jesus, The Passover lamb (1 Corinthians 5.7). Give thanks to the Lamb of God who gave His live for our sins (John 1.29). As time moves rapidly toward its conclusion, consider the prophetic implications of the 2014 Passover date, “knowing the time… for our salvation is nearer than when we first believed” (Roman 13.11). Intercede with us for families, neighborhoods, communities, and the entire...
Read MoreGreetings from BT
BT writes from Jerusalem: Besides managing the dental clinic and teaching English, I am also involved in a women’s ministry of reconciliation. During a recent retreat we looked at principles of reconciliation during times of crisis when relationships are tested, and we tend to identify with one side or the other. As believers it is important to reach out to one another and make the effort to come together to pray together. Putting this principle into practice during the recent Gaza conflict, some of the women had taken the initiative, and we prayed as Israeli, Palestinian and ex-pat women...
Read MoreNews from Jerusalem
BT writes from Jerusalem: This has been another year of change. As I was writing my last letter I did not know what would happen at the end of August. When Dr. Mousa told me he had to close his practice in Tiberias it meant that I would have no clinic or dentist to provide a dental program for the needy. After helping many hundreds of the Lebanese with extensive dental care I expected at some time to gradually phase out the service, but not to suddenly stop with so little notice. The day I got the news I began to inform our patients, one of whom was a believer who had been referred by the...
Read MoreFocus on the Epicenter
Here are two thought-provoking articles for your reflection as we enter times of national political change and global unrest: Dr. James Dobson’s current newsletter from Focus on the Family. The Introduction and Chapter 1 of Joel Rosenberg’s recent book, Epicenter. Both are dense but well worth the...
Read MoreGreetings from BT
BT writes from Jerusalem: July 1983, twenty five years ago, I traveled to the Middle East to begin a year of volunteer service. I am amazed as I consider how the Lord has kept me here and enabled me as a dental hygienist to provide dental services for hundreds of needy people in both Lebanon and Israel. Much to my surprise, the dentist who has been working with me for the past eight years told me he can no longer continue and we are now trying to work out an alternate solution to continue to help the needy. I will write more in my next letter, but please keep this matter in prayer. In an...
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