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Behold Israel

AUTHORS' CORNER: HOW A FORMER ATHEIST FOUND JESUS, FELL IN LOVE WITH ISRAEL, AND NEVER LOOKED BACK

Behold Israel

Amir Tsarfati

News, Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Christianity

4.92.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

From a wild high school skeptic to a passionate follower of Jesus with over 50 trips to Israel, Dan Stolebarger's story is anything but ordinary. In this episode of Author's Corner, Amir Tsarfati sits down with longtime friend and ministry partner Dan Stolebarger to uncover the faith journey behind his new book, Random Chapters of a Follower of Jesus.

From life in a Christian commune to walking the land of Israel with a heart to bless both the people and the King, Dan shares how God used unexpected moments, deep loss, and the trauma of October 7th to sharpen his calling in these last days.

This one is full of powerful testimony, timeless insight, and an unshakable love for Israel.

You can get your copy of Dan's book, Random Chapters of a Follower of Jesus, here.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Shalom everyone. I'm Amir Zafati and we're here once again in Authors Corner, the place

0:16.0

where we want to give you the back story, the behind-the-scenes story of great books, some of them books that I wrote,

0:23.7

some of them books that someone else wrote. And in this case, Dan Stolberger, one of my best

0:29.8

friends from the United States of America, someone whom I met in Israel years ago. And he just wrote a brand new book.

0:40.1

First of all, Shalom, Dan.

0:41.5

Where are you right now?

0:43.8

I am in Cordillane, Idaho.

0:47.3

And that is at the almost the border of Canada.

0:51.6

We're only about 45 minutes away Pacific Northwest the land of

0:57.8

mountains and streams and rivers it's beautiful yeah I've been to your place

1:03.7

few times and I've been there when it was winter and I've been there when it was

1:08.3

summer it's a big difference by the way way. But the lake is phenomenal, the mountains, as you said,

1:15.6

and it's a picturesque city,

1:18.6

and also a great feel of a conservative place

1:22.6

in the heart of quite a liberal country basically.

1:29.6

So, yeah.

1:35.5

You know, Amir, it's been amazing because, as you know, you're coming up here in a couple months.

1:36.8

And I've never really known what to expect as far as turnout or whatever.

1:43.1

And over the years, it's been amazing to me to see how many people love and are concerned about Israel.

1:52.0

I mean, it was a matter of days, and we got the biggest venue that we could get.

1:58.0

And it was just a matter of days until we filled it up overflowing sold

2:03.8

out amazing so we're very excited to have you come and i know you feel within your heart a sense

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