On Vacation… Cruising Alaska!

Sorry, but I won’t be posting any blog articles this week. My wife Sandi and I will be gone for a week on a cruise through the inland passage to Alaska looking at whales, glaciers and much more. We’re celebrating our anniversary and have wanted to make this trip for years, but only now have we been able to do it.

When we get back, we’ll post photos.

(P.S. Okay, since I initially wrote this post, I’ve scheduled out a couple of blog posts (including one later today) that will automatically post while I’m away. So keep checking this blog site and stay tuned for those.)

In the mean time, please stay busy studying the Bible. There are many ways we can assist you in doing this. Here is a list of possibilities:

  • You can review some of the more than 1000 posts I’ve made on this blog over the past several years. Just scroll down, and keep scrolling and scrolling and scrolling until you fine something that interests you. You can also type a search word in the blog’s search box at the top this page and see what comes up. Then click and read.
  • You can visit the Hoshana Rabbah YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/HoshanaRabbah?feature=mhee where you will find about 180 Bible teaching videos that we’ve done.
  • You can go to the Hoshana Rabbah website to access my Torah portion study guides at http://www.hoshanarabbah.org/parshiot.html. There you can keep up with the Torah reading schedule and do the interactive study guides on your own.

This should keep you all more than busy while I’m gone. Even your high-energy, type A, tireless Bible study blogger needs a break once in a while.

See you when I get back!

Love and blessings in Yeshua,

Natan

A Cruise Ship Leaving Seward, Alaska

 

7 thoughts on “On Vacation… Cruising Alaska!

  1. Be safe you two out there have fun, I’m studying I’m learning arameric and hebrew hieroglyphics Oh my gosh if I didn’t find your site I would of never got this far, thank you, Happy Anniversary both may Elohim bless you both on this trip along with the ship and others on board 🙂

  2. I’m in the long parade of well-wishers to you and Sandi .Enjoy the grandeur of God’s majestic scenery in Alaska and enjoy a different pace in honor of your anniversary.
    I’d love to eventually hear the story of how God put you two together, if you care to tell it!
    My husband and I prayed for you this morning to have divine encounters during your week and that you would find extreme favor at every turn.

    • Sandi and I met in a Christian singles church group. I had given up hope of finding a Torah-loving wife in the Hebrew roots churches I was raised in. I was age 30 at the time. Out of frustration, I went to a Sunday church singles group just to find some loving and caring people after having come out of a bad legalistic Torah church situation. I wasn’t looking for a wife, just love from fellow believers. There I found Sandi. I witnessed to her about the basics of Torah. She accepted it. Then YHVH spoke clearly to me and told me to marry her. I did. That was more than 24 years and four children ago.

    • Had a couple of divine encounters that I was able to share the gospel with. The main was a our young room steward from India. He was raised Catholic and after turning his faith to alcoholism, he cried out to YHVH and gave him this job 11 years ago. He wants to start an orphanage to help the hurting in India. I told him he had the heart of Yeshua. He began to weep. Throughout the cruise, I began to build a rapport with him. On Shabbat, I gave him the day off from cleaning our room. Told him we were giving him a Shabbat rest — at least 1/19th of a rest. He had 18 other rooms to clean. He asked me to pray for him. On Shabbat, the next to last day of our voyage, I ministered to him in our room. He hit the floor on his knees, and prayed over, witnessed and encouraged him to go higher in his faith. I gave him my contact info. His name is Douglas. I fell in love with his open and willing heart and pray YHVH will direct his steps spiritual and lead him to some special place in himself.

      He actually blessed me in ways he doesn’t know. Ship stewards are a form of modern slave labor. They work 11 to 12 hours a day 24/7 for low pay for nine months straight at a time without seeing their families in hopes of somehow getting out of the poverty of their third world countries. Douglas’ wages support his wife and two kids, his parents at home and he’s trying to build a house in India for his family. Despite all this, he radiated a joy and gratefulness about his life situation that I’ve seldom seen. He feels that YHVH has given him this job, so that he can be a blessing to his family and to make the world a better place by building a hotel and orphanage in India. In some respects, he’s light years ahead of me in my faith. That’s why I say that he blessed me by his example in more ways than he can know.

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