Jeff Tiegs

So I had the opportunity to be assigned to Jerusalem, Israel back in 2013, 14.

And that brought my faith life to another level.

And man, I want to encourage anyone out there, if they haven't been to Israel yet,

they need to experience it.

So there's an old monk out there named Basil Pixner, who used to say, walking Israel is like having access to a fifth gospel.

You know, it ties things together.

So once again, I lived there on and off for close to two years, and I was able to walk these places, this terrain that I've read about, you know, and

And it's there.

It's all right there.

Some of it is a little bit inaccurate.

Some of it is incredibly accurate.

So once again, as I walked this terrain, I felt a responsibility to share what it is that I had experienced or witnessed or studied.

So it really started out as this book about, I think I started the name of There's Always More to the Story.

So it was an homage to...

paul harvey remember paul harvey now you know the rest of the story i used to love that as a kid you know i used to love it i mean just what a brilliant storyteller so it was an homage to paul harvey of you know there's always more of the story so you've got the bible story but then with the soldier's perspective on it there was there was more that would that would come to life so it really started as this

you know, exposition about the things that I had studied, the things that I had learned, looking at them through a soldier's eyes.

And then interestingly, I went to a workshop, a writing workshop.

And one of the guys in my, in my, on my table, his name was Tim.

And he was an atheist.

He was a, he was a devout, a devout atheist, you know?