by Dr. John DeLancey | Dec 31, 2016 | Everyday Israel, Personal Perspectives from Israel
Israel is a very tiny country surrounded by 22 Arab nations. With the exception of maybe a couple, these surrounding Arab countries wish there wasn’t a country called Israel. Most of these countries hate the Jewish State. As we like to say while on tour, Israel...
by Dr. John DeLancey | Dec 25, 2016 | General
Merry Christmas everyone! The day has arrived and we celebrate God’s redemptive history fulfilled in the coming of Christ! The New Hallelujah song is no doubt familiar to almost everyone. If you have heard it before, you’ll recognize a bit of a twist on...
by Dr. John DeLancey | Dec 24, 2016 | Everyday Israel, General
MERRY CHRISTMAS! Bethlehem during the Christmas season is a festive place to be! Today, the city has a population o 20,000 or so (with adjoining neighboring cites – Beit Sahour and Beit Jaja adding a few more thousand), of which about 80-85% are Arab Muslims,...
by Dr. John DeLancey | Dec 23, 2016 | General
Silent Night is a carol that is used to conclude virtually every Christmas Eve service. The carol was written in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr in the small town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria. Just few years earlier (1816), Mohr had already...
by Dr. John DeLancey | Dec 22, 2016 | General
One of my favorite carols is an old English hymn called Once In David’s Royal City. The carol was first published in 1848 in Miss Cecil Humphreys’ hymnbook Hymns for little Children. In 1919, the song was used as the processional hymn for the Christmas Eve...
