Holy Land — Day Seven Old City Jerusalem Every morning on this trip is an early morning. We set our alarms and meet in the restaurant on the sixth floor of the hotel to eat waffles and biscuits and bacon – oh wait. I mean hummus and cucumbers and rice with beef. I’m not kiddingContinue reading “Holy Land Day Seven”
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Holy Land Day Six
Jerusalem On my last trip to Israel I fell in love with Jerusalem, so I awoke very excited to return! Today, there are just over 800,000 people in Jerusalem, and the city itself has expanded to a metropolis with suburbs. There is the Old City within the old walls (my favorite part), and then thereContinue reading “Holy Land Day Six”
Holy Land Day Five
This morning we left Mar Elias and I’billin. I was, quite honestly, a little sad to leave. I felt like I’d only begun to get to know some of the people and their stories. And, I was a little nervous about what it would be like to stay in Bethlehem, in the “occupied” West Bank.Continue reading “Holy Land Day Five”
Holy Land Day Four
Holy Land – Day Four Mar Elias Work Morning To beat the heat, we all got up around 6 AM and were out weeding/clearing a couple of parcels of land on the campus by 6:30 AM. It was still so humid that we gave up plenty of sweat, but we got more than half theContinue reading “Holy Land Day Four”
Holy Land – The First Three Days
My Facebook Posts Only Told HALF the Story If you happen to know me on Facebook, you might have seen the daily posts of my trip to the Holy Land last September — with pictures and short descriptions of the sites our group visited. Those places were incredible and memorable…places that mean a lot becauseContinue reading “Holy Land – The First Three Days”
My Journey of Self-Awareness
Matthew 16:24-26The Message (MSG) 24-26 Then Jesus went to work on his disciples. “Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You’re not in the driver’s seat; I am. Don’t run from suffering; embrace it. Follow me and I’ll show you how. Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way,Continue reading “My Journey of Self-Awareness”
The Finishing
Doesn’t it feel good to finish something? Especially something that seems important! A few years ago when I felt God tell me to go…write, I globbed onto this idea of blogging. It seemed doable. I could start and finish things that I wanted to write about. The possibilities of what to write seemed endless. ButContinue reading “The Finishing”
Epic of Eden — The New Covenant
Have you ever seen or read the J.R.R. Tolkien series The Lord of the Rings? The final book in the series is titled, The Return of the King – a fitting title for the last chapter of our current study, Epic of Eden. Here we are…ready to bring this amazing study to a conclusion. Let’sContinue reading “Epic of Eden — The New Covenant”
Epic of Eden — David
We started out this Epic of Eden journey looking at “The Great Cultural Barrier,” wrapping our minds around the fact that without the lens of cultural context we will fail to capture all that the Old Testament has for us. Recognizing that Israel was a tribal, patriarchal society helps us grasp depths and truths andContinue reading “Epic of Eden — David”
Epic of Eden — Moses
If we were to play a word association game, and I said, “Moses,” what would you say? My dad would say “Charlton Heston” (of The Ten Commandments fame). Basketball fans might say “Malone” (as in the NBA player). Others might say “baby on the Nile,” “splitter of the Red Sea,” or “recipient of the tenContinue reading “Epic of Eden — Moses”
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