Exciting Announcement

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Hey, well I hope you've been enjoying our weekly Shabbat Shalom devotionals.

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They will continue, but I wanted to take time today just to share with you some really exciting

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announcements.

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I have been busy at work building new resources and new tools for you.

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So let me get started.

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First of all, I want to invite all of our listeners to join us at one or both of two

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Gala dinners in May in celebration of Israel's 75th anniversary.

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Now if you've been listening to me and following my teachings, I'm sure you have a growing

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excitement in your heart about Israel and what God is doing there.

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And this is a fabulous opportunity for you to join with others and celebrate what God

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has done and what He is doing in Israel.

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So we have our first Gala dinner in Nashville, Tennessee on May the 7th, and we have the

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second one on May 17th in Washington, D.C.

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The two programs are going to be very different but equally exciting.

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So please plan to join us.

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I'm going to link in today's show notes how you can access our website with ticket sales.

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I would love it if you would sponsor a table and come as a family or as a church or a ministry

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to our Israel 75 Diamond Anniversary Celebrations.

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I want to see you there.

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Secondly, we have been busy taking our older podcast recordings and turning them into online

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courses.

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So if you go to iceju.org, you're going to find already that we have populated a number

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of online courses that are free of charge for anyone to take.

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We have both biblical studies courses and we have Israel courses.

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So I invite you to visit iceju.org and take advantage of these online courses.

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And please share them with your friends and with your church with others.

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They are free of charge but provide really substantial teaching to help connect the dots

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between our Bible, between Israel of the Bible and Israel of today.

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Now we have also been busy publishing books.

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So our first book that we published in December is the Encounter the 3D Bible.

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We're going to link to this also in today's show notes.

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If you've been listening to me from the very beginning, you may remember that this was the

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first podcast series in the 3D Bible.

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So we've turned it into an online course at iceju and we have turned it into a small group

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study series and we have turned it into a Bible.

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Now I want you to, sorry, a book.

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I want you to know that the book on Amazon, the reviews have really totally blown me away.

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Encounter and Season Saint are saying, I wish I had read this book many years ago.

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They're saying that it is making the Bible come alive for them.

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It makes much more sense.

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This is a very, it's a small book.

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It's a very, very easy to read book.

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Everyone says it's easy to read and to follow and to understand.

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So please get your copy and you know, we've seen so many people after they buy their copy

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to read, they're then buying multiple copies to give to their family and to their friends

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and I encourage you, give them to the young adults in your church.

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I really put this together with young adults in mind that they've been told all kinds of

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things about the Bible, against the Bible, against the Christian faith and this book

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begins to answer a lot of those accusations.

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Now we've also published a second book on anti-Semitism.

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It's available on Amazon.

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It's also available in our store as an e-book.

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Soon we're going to have it out as a print book as well.

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But this is on anti-Semitism what every Christian needs to know and how to counter it.

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So as you know from listening to me, anti-Semitism is really a growing concern and this little

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booklet just summarizes it for you in a very simple way.

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What is the issue?

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Where it's been found in history, where it's being found today, what the expressions of

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it are today and simple little steps that we can all take that will help push back and

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also reach out in support to the Jewish community in your area or where there may have been

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an anti-Semitic attack.

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Our third book just published this month.

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It's actually in celebration of Israel's 75th anniversary and it is called Every Generation

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Story, 75 Years of American Christian Engagement with Israel.

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This little book is a really fun read.

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It's an easy read.

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It's every chapter is written by a different person telling their story of how they first

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got to Israel, how it impacted their life, and how they came back with a lifelong passion

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to stay engaged.

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And these stories come from every generation, from our silent generation or the elders who

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actually remember 1948 when Israel was founded.

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They have a lifelong story to tell.

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They've done so many things in their life and in their career in support of Israel, against

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anti-Semitism, in building Jewish-Christian relations and friendship.

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And then we get into the boomers.

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I'm a boomer.

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My story is in there, how I first got there, and the amazing thing that God did in my life

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because of that first trip to Israel.

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And then we get into the Generation X, the Millennials, and we even end with six stories

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from Generation Z.

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Yeah, Generation Z.

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They don't have a lifelong story to tell yet.

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Their story is basically about the trip they just took to Israel, but they're coming back

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with the same passion.

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And that's why we feel certain if we can continue to take young adults to Israel, they are going

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to continue to have that life-changing experience that we've all had.

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And they're going to come back, and they're going to become lifelong advocates of Israel,

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of Jewish-Christian relations.

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They're going to be the ones to stand up against anti-Semitism.

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So this book is a real encouraging read.

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I predict that every person reading this book is going to be ready to book their ticket

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to Israel, no matter whether you're young or whether you're old.

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You're going to be ready to get back over there if you've been before or make that

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first trip, or that life-changing experience that a trip to Israel is.

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Why is it life-changing?

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Because number one, the Bible comes alive.

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And secondly, when your Bible comes alive, your own personal faith is ignited.

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You understand that the Bible is not just accurate, which it is.

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It's true, and you can base your life on it.

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God is a faithful, promised fulfilling, prophecy-fulfilling God.

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When he says something, it's as good as done.

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And so you can base your life on this book and on the faithful God that wrote it for

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you.

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So these are the new resources we have.

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Reading courses, books, and celebration gala dinners that we really want to see you there.

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So visit in today's show notes, the links down below.

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It may say, read more, click that, open it up.

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You'll find links to all of these resources.

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We have been busy at work preparing key resources and tools for you, so please take advantage

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of them.

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And then I'm going to see you back here in a few days for our Shabbat Shalom devotional.

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God bless.