The lie I believed for years about Israel and the Church
When I was a young Christian, I was taught what that the Church replaced Israel, and the promises God made to the Jewish people now belonged to us. Theologians call this Replacement Theology, and I believed it without question.
God said he’d bring the Jews home. Nobody believed him.
Every few days, another flight lands at Ben Gurion Airport, and Jews step off the plane clutching their bags and their children, leaving behind careers and comfort and countries their families have lived in for generations.
A church was vandalized by a Muslim Arab in Jaffa; the media blamed Jews anyway
A church in Jaffa was vandalized last week, and within hours the story had been that Jews are waging a campaign of violence against Christians in Israel. But what the media didn’t report was that the suspect arrested for that crime was a Muslim Arab.
The covenant God refused to cancel
I was taught, as most Christian pastors are taught, that the Old Covenant Scriptures were given to the Jews and the New Covenant Scriptures were given to the Church. Two books, two peoples, and only one of them still mattered.
Temple gold in a Jerusalem church basement? The explosive story the church doesn’t want you to ask about
Somewhere beneath a 12th-century Crusader church in the heart of Jerusalem, a professor of numismatics once stood in a dark cellar staring at golden vessels he immediately recognized as the sacred utensils of the Holy Temple
Holocaust remembrance goes global: Churches speak out against Jew-hatred
At the center of this was Solidarity Sunday, an initiative led by Eagles’ Wings that mobilized more than 600 churches worldwide, representing approximately 1,100 Christian leaders and tens of thousands of congregants.
The FACE Act double standard: swift justice for churches, delayed action for synagogues
When the law is enforced selectively, when some communities receive immediate federal protection while others are abandoned to hostile mobs and vindictive prosecutors, the law becomes meaningless.
Explaining Israel to the Church
When God called me to the nation of Israel many years ago in an epic dream, he told me that I must stand with Israel when all the nations of the world turn against Israel.
ISIS Inspired Arizona Man Convicted of Hate Crime After Planting Hoax Bombs at Churches
“His actions were designed to threaten and intimidate the congregation because he disagreed with their religious beliefs.”
Lakewood Church Shooter had “Palestine” Sticker on Gun; Police suspect “anti-Hispanic hate crime”
On Sunday afternoon, a woman opened fire shortly before a Spanish-language Sunday afternoon service began. The woman was shot and killed at the scene by two off-duty police officers who were working as security for the church at the time..