We will be hosting Rabbi Rami Goldberg here in Charlotte. Contact me through my email if interested in coming.
Loveforhispeople@gmail.com
Ahava and shalom,
Steve Martin, Love For his People
Charlotte, NC
Standing in support of Israel, Jews, and believers in all the nations, in the name of Jesus (Yeshua). Sharing biblical truth, encouragement, news and prophecy.
Saturday, January 31, 2026
Friday, January 30, 2026
Daniel in the LIONS den - Part 2 by Paul Bernard
Paul Bernard
Continue listening to what they try to do to Daniel!
Click here: Daniel in the Lions' Den - Part 2
#PaulBernard #LionsDen #Daniel
The hills of Bethlehem
Thursday, January 29, 2026
Sharon Sanders, co-founder of Christian Friends of Israel in Jerusalem, is starting a new ZOOM - The Hall of Higher Learning - register now for free.
Sharon Sanders, co-founder of Christian Friends of Israel in Jerusalem
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Steve Martin interview on Israel news channel with Bethlehem Voice, Paul Bernard Calvert
Steve and Laurie Martin, Christian Friends of Israel and YWAM David’s Tent young people in Bethlehem with Paul Bernard Calvert (far right).
Steve Martin’s new book, BACK TO JERUSALEM published January 2026.
Steve Martin was interviewed by Paul Bernard Calvert from Bethlehem, on his Israel news channel, BETHLEHEM VOICE YouTube channel.
Steve talks about his recent three months living and serving with Christian Friends of Israel in Jerusalem (his 30th trip to Israel since 1994) and his new book (his 40th) BACK TO JERUSALEM which made Amazon’s #1 new release and top seller for “Israel and Jerusalem travel.
Listen here to what Steve and his good wife Laurie did while in Jerusalem and throughout the Land, and also about anti-Semitism rising up in the USA.
WATCH HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T8YZ5_W1CE
Steve and Laurie near Jerusalem, Israel January 2026
Daniel in the Lion’s Den, Part 2. Paul Bernard from Bethlehem.
Daniel in the Lion’s Den - Part 2, Paul Bernard from Bethlehem
https://rumble.com/user/PaulBernard5
Paul has become a good friend we met while serving with Christian Friends of Israel in Jerusalem in December 2025. I enjoy his poems!
Ahava and shalom,
Steve Martin, Love For His People
A wonderful time with a Holocaust survivor in Haifa, Israel
This photo, a “Google creation” from the originals, has the Christian Friends of Israel and David’s Tent (YWAM) young people meet with a Holocaust survivor in her home near Haifa, Israel. December 2025
After she spoke of her time in the Nazi death camp, we had our photo taken with her. (Third one from the right in the back row, next to Laurie and myself.
Steve Martin, Love For His People
Charlotte, North Carolina
"Outward Appearances" by Steve Martin
Outside
Appearances
“But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” 1 Samuel 16:7, NASB
The above Scripture speaks of the time when the Prophet Samuel sought the one whom the Lord wanted to be anointed as the next king of Israel, replacing Saul. As you read the chapter, Samuel was expecting the “biggest and the best” from Jesse’s sons when he went to Bethlehem as the God of Israel had instructed the prophet to do.
So were
Jesse and his sons. Expecting that one of his “top seven” was the one.
“But Adonai said
to Sh’mu’el, 'Don’t pay attention to how he looks or how tall he is, because I
have rejected him. Adonai doesn’t see the way humans see —
humans look at the outward appearance, but Adonai looks at the
heart.” 1 Samuel 16:7, Complete Jewish Bible
So too it is sometimes hard to “love” a person when we only
look at the outward appearance and see only the natural look. After all, aren't
all the beauty and masculine TV, Facebook, and social media ads based on the “Hollywood
look” that we are all to be as such?
On a recent outing to Panera Bread for my “Unlimited Sip
Club” coffee, or Mountain Dew (for only $5.00 per month, which I get no
commission for this ad!), it was a very cold January in Charlotte, North
Carolina. The restaurant was scheduled to open at 6:00 am, but even though I
could see two employees standing at the back of the restaurant talking, the
doors remained locked.
Outside in that frigid weather, with an electric hot heater
fan plugged into the brick wall outlet, a thin, black man sat at a metal table,
hunched over with nothing but a t-shirt under the light jacket he had pulled
over his head. When I approached him, I offered him a coffee when they finally opened.
He declined, saying, “I have a meeting at Harris Teeter across the street,”
then got up and left shortly after, carrying his three plastic bags of personal
belongings. So, I did too.
When I came back about 10 minutes later, he had returned to
the freezing position at the table. The Lord then directed me to get a spare
blanket from our car trunk, and I placed it around his shoulders.
From the outside, this was just “another homeless man”
wandering the streets of Charlotte. To the Lord, he was His creation, whom He
cared about.
Too often, we look at the outside appearance of each other
and make our judgments inwardly, if not spoken.
But as the Lord does, He looks at the heart and knows. While
others will reject the “Davids” we see in the field, or on the street, our
Father looks at the heart.
Maybe this man has great things in store for him.
Ahava and shalom,
Steve Martin
Message #2, 2026, “Outside Appearances”, Jan. 29, 2026, 4:02 am
#OutwardAppearances #SteveMartin #homelessman #Jesus #ProphetSamuel #PaneraBread #Hollywood #heart
Maggie Evans, Board member of Christian Friends of Israel in Jerusalem, killed tragically on Jan. 28, 2026
Maggie Evans, Christian Friends of Israel Jerusalem board member
We are devastated to announce that Maggie Evans, a long time member of Christ Church Jerusalem died today. She was killed outside her home when a crane mounted on a truck fell over and struck her. She died shortly after arriving at the hospital.
As a young woman, Maggie left her home in England to serve as a nurse in Bangladesh before coming to Israel in 1980. She was a resident of Jerusalem for forty-five years where she worked for the Near East Ministry (NEM) and for Sha’are Tzedek hospital until her retirement. She supported and contributed to other Christian ministries including the Christ Church Mercy Fund and Christian Friends of Israel.
Maggie was known for her prayerfulness and was well loved for her kindness, her encouraging words, and her care for the sick and needy.
Sharon Sander, co-founder, CFI-Jerusalem 01.29.26
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
ANNOUNCEMENT: Free E-book Feb. 1-Feb. 5, 2026. Steve Martin's new book "BACK TO JERUSALEM". (Also available in hard cover, paperback, and audiobook formats)
Free E-book Feb. 1-Feb. 5, 2026.
New book "BACK TO JERUSALEM"
To get your free e-book (you do not need Kindle to download to your computer or phone) go here:
Click here: Back To Jerusalem free e-book
The hard cover, paperback and audiobook versions are also available at regular price.
Look here: Back To Jerusalem optional versions
INTRODUCTION
From Oct. 16, 2025, to Jan. 12, 2026, my good wife Laurie (48 years of marriage and counting) and I had the most incredible time in Jerusalem and many parts of Israel. We had come to serve with Christian Friends of Israel Jerusalem, as needed.
As I sit on the back veranda of the apartment they provided for us, I watch the sun rise over the southeast as another of His glorious days begins. My heart is full of the love of Yeshua (Jesus) for this, His chosen city, His chosen Land, and His chosen people, the Jews.
We came to bring comfort to His people coming out from a heartbreaking war on the eight fronts the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were fighting, after the horrendous, murderous, home destruction years since October 7, 2023. The Israelis had been fighting for their lives, their families, their land promised to them by the Living God of Israel. We hoped to bring His love to them as Christians, standing on His Word.
God the Father did not fail them. In so many miraculous ways, He protected them, united them, and caused them to cry out to Him for His salvation.
Over 1200 Jewish civilians were lost that day. Over 1000 young men, women, and reserves have since been lost, destroyed by the enemy who seems never to go away.
“We just want peace,” is the cry of our friends’ hearts here in Jerusalem and the surrounding hills.
But, when the Messiah Yeshua returns to this very city, Jerusalem, they will know Him as their Peace King, their Shalom Most High.
Come Jesus! Bo Yeshua!
As that time of His return quickly approaches, we joined with several hundred Christians, coming from the nations, to comfort, stand in support, and let the love of the Father work through us for them.
In this, my 40th book, written during my 30th trip to Israel since the late 1990s, I share some of my stories. Some chapters are in the “present tense” because I wrote them at the time they occurred.
Many Jews are returning to their Land now, as prophesied centuries ago by Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Yeshua Himself. Christians are going to Israel to comfort and support them in their return.
And then Jesus (Yeshua) will return as the King of kings and Lord of lords.
I desire that the Lord Himself will touch your heart, and you, too, will join Him in this glorious work, to see His salvation come to the Jews and Arabs of Israel.
Ahava and shalom,
Steve Martin, Love For His People, Jerusalem, Israel, Jan. 7, 2026
My
hand on the Western Wall (Kotel) in Jerusalem.
#freebook #BackToJerusalem #Jesus #Yeshua #Jerusalem #Israel #SteveMartin #ChristianFriendsofIsrael
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
EXPEDITION ABRAHAM: From his birthplace to the Promised Land! Expedition Bible, Joel Kramer
#EXPEDITIONABRAHAM #birthplace #Abraham #Ur #PromisedLand #ExpeditionBible #JoelKramer #biblicalarchaeologist
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