The U.S. Senate confirmed former Arkansas governor and Baptist pastor Mike Huckabee as the Trump administration’s ambassador to Israel on Wednesday (April 10), in a 53–46 vote largely along party lines.
“Though the concept is somewhat foreign to us, it was commonplace in ancient Israel,” writes pastor Adam Dooley. “Fasting appears 75 times in the Bible.”
Ryzhkov is the pastor of Calvary Russian Baptist Church, a growing congregation of believers in the Alpharetta/Cumming area, but his ministry extends far beyond his local church and reaches into Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
“My son said to me (in the vision), ‘Why didn’t you do anything to change the culture or change the minds or influence people?’” said J. Taylor Davis, on his inspiration for writing his new book.