by wyomingbaptist | Aug 12, 2022 | Lessons from the Holy Land
“But Jesus was a carpenter!” I yelled in my head, unable to believe what I just heard. There we were standing on the ruins of Zippori, and my childhood image of Jesus was fast falling apart. Zippori — or Sepphoris, as some call the place — is an ancient Greco-Roman...
by wyomingbaptist | Aug 5, 2022 | Lessons from the Holy Land
“Are you going to the West Bank?”I got that nervous question a lot the weeks before heading over to the Holy Land. The West Bank is named that because it technically sits on the western bank of the Jordan River. But, of course, that’s not why people were concerned I...
by wyomingbaptist | Aug 5, 2022 | Lessons from the Holy Land
On Saturday, July 2, our group drove northwest from Jerusalem, past Jericho, to the traditional site of Jesus’ baptism in the Jordan River. To get from Jerusalem to the Jordan River, we had to drive through the Judean desert. Unlike the Arabian desert with its...
by wyomingbaptist | Aug 2, 2022 | Lessons from the Holy Land
“Water is life.” That’s a phrase I heard over and over in Israel. From our tour guide Gary’s continually reminding us to take our water bottle everywhere we went. To his pointing out the cisterns that were used to sustain life in ancient Israel. Let me just say, as a...
by wyomingbaptist | Jul 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
THE LAND “Don’t forget your water!” blasted the bus’s loudspeaker. It was Day 8 or so of our trip to Israel, and it was hot. Today, we planned to visit the ancient city of Laish, a once-walled fortress about an hour’s drive north of the Sea of Galilee. I had gotten...
