In a memorable scene in Steven Spielberg’s film Schindler’s List, a group of Jewish men in the Polish suburb of Kraków-Płaszów huddle around an old oil barrel, warming their hands over burning scrap wood. One of them confidently proclaims, “There’s nowhere down from here. This is it! This is the bottom. The ghetto is liberty!” […]
Category Archives: Intercession
There is a Yiddish story about a man who spent all his free time at the shtetl kretchmeh (in Yiddish, a tavern doubling as an inn; in Polish karczma or in Ukrainian корчма). His wife bitterly complained about his all too frequent absences, asking him what he does there anyway with all his spare time. […]
An ancient Indian Buddhist parable (circa 500 B.C.) tells of nine blind men who had never encountered an elephant. Each one was given a different part of the elephant’s body to touch, and then was called upon to describe the pachyderm. It comes as no surprise that each description was totally different from his neighbor’s! Each […]
Let’s move the hands of the clock back more than 2,400 years to ancient Iran. Two high-level Persian court politicians had become so angry with King Ahasuerus that they plotted together to assassinate him. The old Latin word for this plan – conspiracy – comes from the joining of ‘spiro’ (to breath) and ‘con’ (together). […]
We’re excited to present our first teaching video in Hebrew – David Boskey sharing on Daniel 9:20-26. This video is titled ‘Revelation is the fruit of intimacy’ https://youtu.be/3D2WbjWsNJE In a time when many are desperate to understand the times we are living in, Daniel 9:20-26 provides us with three helpful keys to position ourselves to […]
God’s “purpose is unchangeable . . . It is impossible for God to lie; (Therefore) we who have taken refuge” under His wings “have strong encouragement to hold firmly to the hope set before us” (Hebrews 6:17-18). “This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all” (1 […]