Tag: God
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The Farmer Plows On
Read More: The Farmer Plows OnOn an early spring day, the fields spread out, glistening again. The wind is still chilly, with night temperatures around zero, but the sun is gaining strength
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Glorifinity
Read More: GlorifinityWhen the eyes of our heart open to this reality, we easily see a thousand gifts for which to be grateful. The world takes on a quality that’s hard to describe and easily lost. We feel that what we experience transcends that moment and that place — that the whole is much greater than the…
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Israel Trip: Jerusalem to Be’ersheva
Read More: Israel Trip: Jerusalem to Be’ershevaJERUSALEM DAY I – Sunday November 17 We woke up early this morning. We had a quick breakfast and left the hotel at 5:45 a.m. The reason we left early was that we wanted to be in Jerusalem before 8:45 a.m., as we hoped to attend the outdoor church service in the garden tomb. In…
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Israel Trip: Joppa to Mount Hermon
Read More: Israel Trip: Joppa to Mount HermonOUR FIRST EXPEDITION JOPPA AND TEL AVIV – Wednesday, November 13 After this second lecture we had a good dinner and around one p.m., we left for our first bus tour. We drove south, back to Tel Aviv, crossing the Yarkon River. First, we drove through Tel Aviv to get some impressions of Israel’s largest…
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Israel Trip: Preparations & Impressions
Read More: Israel Trip: Preparations & ImpressionsWHAT WE SAW AND LEARNED IN ISRAEL – Monday, November 11 After some exciting weeks of planning, reading and dreaming about Israel, packing and completing last minute jobs, Monday November 11, 1991 finally arrived. It was a dull cool day. We had drizzle, mixed with wet snow and a North Easterly wind. The snow from…
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Walk to the Light
Read More: Walk to the LightIn 1945, Truus was sixteen years old – the only real help in a household of boys. When infant sister Hennie got sick, she needed round the clock monitoring and Truus stayed up during the nights.
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Give it a Rest
Read More: Give it a RestIt was a good winter for hunkering down. The steady state of snow and cold gave me permission to hibernate in my computer den. Even the Winter Olympics and the puzzle table failed to lure me away.
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Sabbath: Seal of the Covenant
Read More: Sabbath: Seal of the Covenantby: Henry James de JongMay, 1981Institute for Christian StudiesToronto, Ontariofor: Dr. George Vandervelde 1. Introduction. There is, perhaps, no single facet of the Judaeo-Christian tradition that comes closer to the heart of Christian living than does the sabbath. Yet the reality of the sabbath seems largely to have been lost outside of the Jewish tradition.…
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Oma Says
Read More: Oma SaysThe Collected Sayings of Oma Brouwer (1899 – 1984) These sayings were written down by Mina Brouwer in a ledger, as she thought of them, and typed out later by one of her descendants. The text recognition and translations come courtesy of Google Lens
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Protected: Later Events and Conclusions
Read More: Protected: Later Events and ConclusionsThere is no excerpt because this is a protected post.