While not all Christian traditions do much to celebrate the season of Lent, our church does. I very much look forward to Lent each year with the same anticipation as I do for Advent. With so much happening already in 2020, I'm looking forward to some time to refocus this Lent. What is Lent? Lent [...]
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Trip to Israel 2011 {Day 7, 8, + 9}
Day 7: Today we are in the Old City of Jerusalem, we walked through the Gate of the Lion and went to Bethesda (John 5:1-19), not far from here we went to the Church of Saint Anne's, a true example of Romanesque Architecture. We rested here for a while and worshipped. We weren't able to [...]
Trip to Israel 2011 {Day 5- Day 6}
Day 5: Lots of driving today. This morning we left our hotel in Tiberius and headed toward the Dead Sea. We stopped at QumRan, where the Essinses lived in caves in the mountain sides. This is where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, although they are no longer here but are in a museum in [...]
Trip to Israel 2011 {Day 3- Day 4}
Day 3: This morning, we were up and headed to Nazareth, the place where Jesus was raised. First we visited the Nazareth Village a sort of recreation of Nazareth from Biblical times, our guide's wife was actually from Rockwall, Texas, small world! It did rain on us a bit but who can complain about a [...]
Trip to Israel 2011 {Day 1- Day 2}
During Spring Break in 2011, Travis and I went on an amazing adventure to Israel with students and faculty from Truett Seminary. It's one of those trips we said we go on no matter what and we did. One week in the Holy Land. The flights were crazy and because of bad weather in New [...]
