Author: Clifford Denton

  • From Netivyah, Jerusalem Prayer List –  20 September, 2025.

    By Joseph Shulam.  The Jewish World is approaching the end of the Jewish Calendar year and the High Holidays Season.  It is a clump of Holidays that starts with the so-called (by popular vote) the “Jewish New Year.”  This holiday doesn’t exist by this name in the Bible.  In the Bible, the first day of…

  • Wrestling with God – again!

    The battle between David and Goliath is being re-enacted in today’s Middle East conflict. by Charles Gardner. As dawn broke the other morning, I was drawn to a devotional, Wrestling with God, from Jonathan Cahn’s Book of Mysteries1. It seemed to sum up what I’d been experiencing in recent days. Jacob fought all night with…

  • From Netivyah, Jerusalem –  13 September, 2025.

    By Joseph Shulam.  As the Hebrew Calendar approaches the end of the Hebrew year, we are also approaching the end of the book of Deuteronomy and looking forward to starting over again at Genesis 1 and continuing the cycle of reading the Word of God every Shabbat. We read from the Torah and from the…

  • The Greatest Story Ever Told.

    (Hodder & Stoughton, 2025) by Bear Grylls. A thrilling adventure with the man who changed the world. by Charles Gardner. Amid the turmoil of a Western world all at sea after losing its moral compass, a new book may well help turn the tide. And it is already evidently flying off the shelves as a…

  • Iranian olive branch.

    Evangelist teams up with Orthodox Jew to help reap the harvest. by Charles Gardner. Peace-loving representatives of two nations who have recently been at war with each other have teamed up in a remarkable way that bodes for future reconciliation. Marziyeh Amarizadeh, an Iranian evangelist now based in America, has joined Orthodox Jew Jonathan Feldstein…

  • From Netivyah, Jerusalem –  06 September, 2025.

    By Joseph Shulam.  I have stated it before that the reading of the Torah portion (The Parasha) every Shabbat in the synagogues around the world always seems to bring a Textual discussion that contextually fits into the current events that are happening in the same week. And in reality, for me personally, when I read…

  • From Netivyah, Jerusalem –  29 August, 2025.

    By Joseph Shulam.  Written from Mevasseret Zion near Jerusalem, where travelers once arrived after ascending from Mediterranean coastal cities like Jaffa and Tel-Aviv. The reading in all the synagogues of God’s people on this next Shabbat is from the following texts:   The Torah portion of Shoftim: “Judges” Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9.  The reading from the prophets is from Isaiah 51:12 – 52:12.   From…

  • From Netivyah, Jerusalem –  22 August, 2025.

    By Joseph Shulam.  The book of Deuteronomy is the last book of the Torah, the fifth book in the Bible.  In truth, it is a book that records the last speech of Moses to the nation of Israel that came out of Egypt and crossed the Red Sea on dry land.  We are slowly but…

  • From Netivyah, Jerusalem –  15 August, 2025.

    By Joseph Shulam.  The Torah portion that we will be reading on Shabbat, August 16, 2025, is called Ekev.   From the Torah:  Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25. From the Prophets:  Isaiah 49:14 – 51:3. From the Gospel:  Matthew 16:13-20. EKEV is translated to English in the  NKJV in the following way:   “Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do…

  • Not peace, but a sword!

    Israel’s battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the monstrous antisemitic spirit of Goliath. by Charles Gardner. As my friend Aaron Eime put it in a recent television interview, we are not fighting against flesh and blood. He was, of course, quoting from the well-known verse (Ephesians 6:12) describing the spiritual warfare in…