You're listening to episode 157 of The God Center Mom Podcast with me, Heather McFadden.

Today I'm bringing Josh Ayrons on the show because he and I and a big old group of

Christian leaders are headed to Israel.

And as much as I'd like to bring you all with me, they said I couldn't.

So this was the second best thing.

One of the ways that I think the enemy uses to attack young Christians is to take an

issue like Israel, which seems like kind of a side issue that's not really that important.

What it really ends up doing is confusing them on their faith and on God because we

see so much of God's nature and the nature of his love through how he loves Israel throughout

the Bible and today.

So if you can kind of, you know, throw a curveball on that subject, then you have a lot of

young, confused Christians walking around trying to figure out, does God, they're worried

about does God love me?

What is my identity?

You know, am I going to screw up and as God's love preconditioned on my behavior and all

of that?

And I saw a lot of young Christians sort of fall for that and just go through some real

crises of faith because of this confusion surrounding the Israel issue.

They just didn't realize that it was, it was something that was so directly related

to their perception of how God loved them.

Luckily I made it through that because my mom taught me about Israel and taught me that

it was important and just going back to the Bible and reading it through that lens and

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