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Building Bridges, Bringing Hope. That is our tagline here at The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry. For our Ministry Highlight program this week, we’re excited to share with you a way our North American team is building bridges with the Jewish community. We welcome to the program Ty Perry, one of our workers in Las Vegas, NV and Rabbi Felipe Goodman. Ty and Rabbi Goodman have a unique relationship that began in a Bible study and they will be sharing with Chris about their recent experience traveling to Poland and the Holy Land together. We know you’ll be encouraged to hear how God has brought these two, an evangelical Christian and a Jewish Rabbi together, and how they both are bridging relationships inside the Christian and Jewish communities. And maybe it will inspire some of you pray for open doors in the Jewish community. You will often hear us say that Jewish people need friends. We owe them so much—they gave us our Messiah! Anti-Semitism is growing worldwide and we believe the Bible is very clear that God will bless those who bless the Jewish people (Genesis 12).

We are concluding our series, “Discovering the Psalms.” Isn’t it amazing that these verses were written thousands of years ago and they still resonate with us today? That is because the human heart remains the same. We need encouragement, we need to praise, and we need to know we are not alone in this journey. We’ve been looking at the layers in the Psalms and we have found that they are expertly written in a pattern. This week Chris will share how these Psalms relate to us as believers. In our first episode Chris said that the pattern that was found in the Psalms was lament, thanksgiving, and praise. These patterns are what have kept believers coming back year after year. We’ll look into some of the Psalms that seem to resonate with believers the most.

We are continuing in our series this week, “Discovering the Psalms.” The Book of Psalms most vividly expresses the doubt and faith individuals have placed in the Lord as they walked with Him. If we’re honest, many of us read the Psalms for personal comfort—and that’s okay!

As we continue in our series “Discovering the Psalms,” we go to ancient Israel where we’ll learn about Psalms the Israelited used to worship God and welcome new kings. Much of the Psalms speak of sacrifices and kings. Chris will take us to the New Testament and show us how those Psalms were used in describing Jesus.