Keep the momentum
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Drawing on his experience of growing up in Jerusalem, Chip unpacks why this tiny nation has captured the attention of the world for thousands of years.

With honesty and humor, Mike reflects on what it cost him personally to start asking real questions, and why, several trips to Israel later, he's found something he calls moral clarity: not certainty about everything, but freedom in knowing he's finally doing the work of actually seeking to understand.

Siyona Adranly, an Arab singer-songwriter, musician, and speaker from Jerusalem, shares her story of being raised by parents committed to reconciliation between Jews and Arabs, and what that cost her growing up.

Michael Mistretta builds on the foundation of the previous talks by exploring Romans 9–11, three chapters that are often overlooked but are essential to understanding God's redemptive plan.

Speaking from his experience as a Palestinian Christian, Bassem explores how the gospel offers hope that reaches beyond generations of conflict, fear, and division.

What if the most famous Jew who ever lived is still Jewish, and we've simply forgotten? Rather than stepping outside Israel's story, Jeff argues, Jesus stepped fully into it, and understanding that changes how we read the entire New Testament.

Mati walks through the strange account of Balak and Balaam, showing how a Gentile prophet hired to curse Israel ends up speaking one of Scripture's most enduring blessings instead — words still prayed by religious Jews every morning to this day.

Leading a Lutheran group through Yad Vashem, Moshe listened as the pastor explained to a busload of grieving Germans that Jesus' blood had come as revenge on the Jewish people, and watched as no one on the bus said a word against it. That moment convinced Moshe he had to trace this teaching back to its roots.

As a messianic believer who has personally sued the Israeli government in over 2,000 cases and faced death threats for it, Calev has more grievances with Israeli policy than most of his critics ever will. And yet, he argues, the hatred aimed at Israel today isn't organic.

Panelists Bassem Adranly, Calev Myers, Michael Mistretta, and Emily Huff take on the toughest, most direct questions of the weekend, gathered from audience submissions and consolidated into the themes that mattered most.

Surrounded by the memorials built to hold the nation's grief, including a piano dedicated to a hostage still being held in Gaza, Chip sat down to play a song he'd written the day October 7th happened, only to have a weeping young Israeli man sit beside him, speaking rapidly in Hebrew Chip couldn't understand. Chip shares the choice he faced in that moment: respond or react.