Tag: Turkey

Visiting Revelation’s Churches

Revelation’s Seven Churches—I’m leading a group to visit them next April. You’ve never seen the Book of Revelation until you’ve been there—or the Book of Acts, or Paul’s and John’s and Peter’s letters.

Next April 9-20, 2018 we’ll visit all Seven Churches—Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea—and Colossae, Miletus, Hieropolis, Troas and Troy. Then we go to Greece—Philippi, Thessalonica, Berea, Thermopylae—finishing in Athens and Corinth. That means Mars Hill, the Acropolis, the Agora, Corinth’s Bema and more.

Come along and I’ll show you—it’s the trip of a lifetime. Here’s the link for more info and to register. It’s called “Footsteps of the Apostles 2018”.

—j

Not Turkey Day

“Without God, what does being “thankful” really mean? Does it have any meaning at all, even in the moment?” —Pastor Jack Abeelen

This week we Americans will feast and give thanks. We don’t thank the earth for giving us food or life—our planet doesn’t give us anything on purpose. We don’t laude over a dead bird for its contribution to our waistlines—it didn’t die for our dining pleasure—it cared for nothing beyond its own survival. George Washington didn’t decree a national feast to thank a cook or he might have named it “Thank-a-Cook Day”.

Thanksgiving Day is the great why, when we’re reminded to thank the One Who gave us all good things—especially His Son to die in our place—not because we are good but because, to the Lord God Almighty, King of the Universe, we’re significant. That is tremendous.

Happy Thanksgiving.

—j

 

Basic Bible Vids: It Happened Here…

My videos from Biblical sites in Israel, Jordan, Turkey and Greece are up at YouTube.

All short and amazing, I’ll take you to the places where the Bible happened. Have a look by clicking on this link, and let me know what you think. Blessings!

Here’s a sample from under Jerusalem…!