Making and Maturing
Disciples of Jesus
Category: faith
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Israel 2019 Day 10 Our morning started in Nazareth and a visit to the “Nazareth Village,” a ministry that has recreated 1st century life in Nazareth. Live shepherds, carpenters, and weavers really made us feel like we had traveled in time. A special highlight of the morning was when pastor Mike read Luke 4:16-30 in…
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Israel 2019 Day 9 It seems so simple in Exodus 20:3- “You shall have no other gods before me.” Yet since the garden in Eden we’ve had a worship problem. Today our tour in Israel centered on worship. Our first stop was tel Dan. In Judges 18 the tribe of Dan relocated here because they…
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Israel 2019 Day 8 We started our day driving up from Tiberias to the cliffs of Arbel for an amazing view of the Sea of Galilee. We saw the area where Jesus did the vast majority of his ministry, and got a great bird’s eye view of the region. We drove back down to the…
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Israel 2019 Day 7 Our day started in the Dead Sea—a body of water that sits at the lowest elevation on earth. The Jordan river empties into it, and there’s no outlet. A combination of environmental factors gives the Dead Sea a salinity of 30%. The bottom line here is that everyone floats in the…
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Israel 2019 Day 6 We started our day with a sobering visit to Yad Vashem, the holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. We were horrified by the reminder of the effects of sin on humanity, and amazed at how God protected Israel when they were at such great risk. As we drove through Jerusalem and out of…
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