“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.
Glued to the news, Israelis breathed a collective sigh of relief Sunday (Jan. 19), when Romi Golan, Emily Damari and Doron Steinbrecher set foot in Israel, the first of the remaining hostages released by Hamas as part of a ceasefire…
Here’s the Explore the Bible Sunday School lesson commentary for January 19, written by Mark Rathel, pastor of Friendship Baptist Church in DeFuniak Springs, Florida.
Texans on Mission organizes disaster relief training trips to Israel throughout the year, and it deployed teams a year ago after Hamas attacked Israel. It held its last 2024 training session in November.
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