Noah was prepared to engage in a 100-year building project on the basis of a warning from God about things that he had not seen and could not yet see.

Michael Ots (author of What kind of Hope?): “In Western Europe we have moved from a culture that used to be ambivalent and apathetic towards the gospel to a situation now where people are openly hostile to it.”

What are our hopes and aspirations for old age - if God allows us to reach that point in life? None of us can escape the ageing process: Outwardly we are wasting away, but inwardly we are being renewed day by day.

“Do we believe the objections to Christianity because they are true, or just because they are popular?”, asks evangelist Michael Ots.

No longer is each day a struggle to work hard for Jesus, so that I can receive his approval. I know he accepts me because I have received his free gift of eternal life and grace.

The Palestinian Authority's latest proposed U.N. resolution claims the Western Wall is part of the al-Aksa Mosque and thereby a Muslim holy site.

When we react badly to a situation, do something that is wrong or mess up, how do we react? Cain’s example shows that we can either master sin, or we can let sin have us.

An Israeli soldier has been killed and several other people have been wounded in a gun and knife attack at a bus station in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva.

Fire broke out overnight at the compound housing Joseph's Tomb, a religious site venerated by Jews

Attacks have continued in parts of Jerusalem only hours after Israeli forces launched a major security operation in Arab areas of the city.

The huge investment in agriculture transformed  the semi-arid Al Badia region into fields of maize and cotton, by means of subsidies to farmers and the drilling of thousands of wells. This added to the pressure on water resources. 

Abel was the first martyr for his faith; and his example, together with the words of Scripture, tells us that those who are killed for the sake of Christ do not lose their lives in vain.

God has given every one of us certain privileges, abilities and gifts. What are we going to do with them?

The consequences of a scandal has “devastating” effects on the church and on the leader's family. But the gospel assumes “the frailty of the human heart”. Michael Oh, CEO of the Lausanne Movement. 

When you read a book, are you one of those people who, like me, love to be kept in suspense until the very last moment?

In this 13th chapter of Hosea we unexpectedly come across one of the most remarkable verses in the book, if not in the whole Old Testament. But first we need to see its context. 

All Spanish political parties take sides in the controversy around the Jewish artist. Heated debate about freedom of conscience continues on social networks.

A German pastor cycles from Holland to the south of Italy, gets in touch with local churches and raises money for three missionary projects.

Will you, like Israel in Hosea's time, become increasingly confident in what you have gained? Or will you remember your origins, where you have come from, and so keep yourself humble before your God?

Archeologists at Bar-Ilan University have discovered the remnants of the ancient city of Gath, one of the largest and most influential cities in the region.

The project is part of the Israeli library's global initiative to digitize and disseminate online tens of thousands of rare Hebrew manuscripts currently dispersed between hundreds of collections worldwide.

Israeli archaeologists have unearthed evidence of early small-scale agricultural cultivation at Ohalo II, a 23,000-year-old hunter-gatherers’ sedentary camp on the shore of the Sea of Galilee.

God is love. We often find this difficult to comprehend, especially when faced with hard circumstances, because our understanding of his love is so small. We find it hard to grasp how he can hold light and love in balance.

The scroll was unearthed in 1970 in a synagogue at Ein Gedi. Now, a high resolution 3D scanning has allowed to decipher it.

The deal limits Iranian nuclear activity in return for the lifting of international economic sanctions. Israel said “it is a mistake of historic proportions.”