The Land and the Book

05/02/2026

Here's the link to the website for the Coral Reef at Eilat!

גלו את עולם השוניות באילת: יצורים, מצלמות חיות, מגזין, צ'אט AI עם יצורי הים וסימולציות עתידיות.

02/07/2026

Here's a link to Jon Gauger's newest book, now available on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Powerful-Self-Talk-Psalms-Biblical-Mindset/dp/0736991832/ref=sr_1_1?crid=T19OSHPTCG35&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.gpdMUTEwVkpK9CVjs9ZCI5caVb6t24GCqpVFb6hbl0PGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.qExmKUMux7yN_F_IgKYiiW_Gs7EEA8eqr6mHse2F9VY&dib_tag=se&keywords=jon+gauger+powerful+self-talk&qid=1768341505&sprefix=Jon.+GAuger+powerful%2Caps%2C171&sr=8-1

01/29/2026

At a recent "clothing inventory," every shirt was scrutinized, and most were tried on. In one amazing hour, we went through everything. Rising up from the kitchen table: an impressive mountain headed for the resale store. And honestly, the process felt strangely freeing.

But if it’s healthy to take an inventory of our shirts, what about an inventory of our souls?- https://mailchi.mp/785359e40666/declutter-your-soul

01/15/2026

There were trees missing trunks and reindeer missing limbs. We saw stars without their points, and holly without berries. A lady in the same aisle we ambled down was heard to mutter: “If it’s not broken, it’s not here!” She wasn’t wrong

In some way, this store aisle was a picture of the world. We are all broken, sinful, trashed. In fact, the Bible says, “We are all infected and impure with sin. When we display our righteous deeds, they are nothing but filthy rags” (Isaiah 64:6).
- https://mailchi.mp/5c219ac3a176/if-its-not-broken-its-not-here

12/09/2025

Looking for something to listen to--or watch--this Christmas season? Moody Radio has posted several past Christmas specials you might enjoy. Three are programs Jon Gauger and I helped develop. And one of them also includes three bonus video specials. I think all these will help you remember the real reason for the season!

Moody Radio is pleased to offer Christmas specials for the advent holiday season!

12/09/2025

Here's a link to a Round Table Discussion I recently took part in when I was in Indiana speaking at the Life in Messiah conference. Hopefully you will find it helpful!

What truly defines a sovereign state according to international standards? Does the current situation in Palestine meet those criteria? We take a look at the...

06/13/2025

Israel has launched an attack against Iranian nuclear and military sites. The attack was launched now because Israel believes the Iranians were racing ahead to develop nuclear weapons. Please be praying for the people of Israel—and their leaders—during this time. And remember Zechariah 12:1–3. The Lord, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the human spirit within a person, declares: “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves.”

06/05/2025

It's been an ugly month of violence against Jewish people: shootings, slander, cursing, flame-throwing--and it all took place here in the (not so) good ol' USA. Here's an update you wouldn't think possible.

Again, all of this (and more) has happened in just the past month. Yet many in our country act like antisemitism isn’t a serious issue and that people like me are just being dramatic about it.

05/22/2025

Avner Boskey is a friend who ministers in Omer, a town near Beersheba. His son David attended Moody and posted the following comments regarding the murder of his friend who was serving on the Jewish embassy staff in DC. Please read!

My dear friend Yaron Lischinsky was murdered last night. You could not have met a kinder soul. He and I used to talk in the back of our congregation on Friday evenings in Jerusalem about life, ministry, identity, our futures, our passions, our faith… He was a man of conviction, of humility, of warmth, and of profound integrity. A man of whom the world was not worthy.

His precious family have served as a shining example of sacrificial love and of servanthood to our community for the many years I have known them. I weep with them for the loss of their dear son and brother. He was the best of us.

Yaron was going propose to his beloved fiancee, Sarah Milgrim, in Jerusalem next week. Instead, their families will be burying them in their prime. Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism are as discriminate in their bloodlust as they are indiscriminate from one another. The keffiyeh-wearing murderer’s demonic chanting of “Free Palestine” after gunning down Yaron and Sarah in cold blood from point black range in our nation’s capitol has been reverberating across college campuses in the US for years at this point, and this call for the genocide of our people, God’s chosen and beloved Jewish children, should echo in the ears of those who have ears to hear.

May the memory of my dear friend and his dear bride-to-be continue to be a blessing - he will always be a blessing to me…

05/10/2025

Erastus was the city treasurer/director of public works in Corinth at the time Paul visited the city. This inscription honors Erastus for work done at his own expense to beautify the city. In addition to helping Corinth, Erastus also did much to help the apostle Paul.