We have a guest with us this evening. I met Ronnie. It's been almost 20 years ago when we were taking a tour to Israel.

And I've been in and out of Israel a lot,

but Ronnie and another friend of ours now, Ilan,

were the guides for the tour.

That time we had two buses and they picked

as we walked towards them,

they just said, I'll take that one

and Ronnie looked at me.

The other guy looked at my brother and said,

he looks friendlier.

So he took him and Ronnie got stuck with me. And he has become a trusted friend. We have traveled a lot of road together. I'll tell you one story and then I'll introduce Ronnie a few years ago.

Too many years ago. We were in Israel for the Feast of Tabernacles in the fall and I was there with a small group of people and

we had made it to Jerusalem and I was scheduled to speak at a Russian church that evening.

So I turned the shower on, I was about to step in the shower,

and my phone started ringing.

And really it was unusual that I would have picked it up

in that circumstance.

But I did, and my mom was on the phone.

My parents were just flying into the country.

We had gone ahead of them.

And there was a lot of noise.

She said, I'm in an ambulance.

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