You Need to Watch Expedition Bible

I have been watching the Expedition Bible videos on YouTube for a while now and the way Joel Kramer presents recent discoveries in archaeology from the Holy Land that support what the Bible says have been most helpful. The videos take you to the sites that match events recorded in the Bible and you get to see 3D Diagrams of what it might have looked like in the past as well as drone fly overs with interactive arrows showing where people went. This has helped me to visualize what the Bible describes and clarified what happened during some events. You need to watch and subscribe to this channel.

Beyond visualizing what happened the information given supports the church and our faith showing that we are not blindly following manmade stories but events that happened. It is a great tool for apologetics, showing proof to the world that the Bible can be trusted. These are resources along with others like Timothy Mahoney’s Patterns of Evidence that both help us to see and give us hope and reasons for confidence.

For example, the picture below is from the vblog about where Jacob wrestled God. I had always found it odd that Jacob sent his family ahead of him crossing the ford, seemed kind of cowardly. But what I saw here was that the road was on the right side of the river and when he sent his family ahead across the ford that would have been to the left where the river curves while he went up the hill to watch for his brother Esau. It was to protect his family. You can understand passages in the bible better when you can see where they happened. 

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Weeding Out False Teachers and Teaching

I attend a men’s group at my church each weekend. This weekend we discussed the fourth chapter of First John. While the director of ministries lead the session I started noticing some points that drew my attention. While trying to fill out my notes page I started writing notes in the margins of my bible. What follows is an exposition of the points that grabbed my attention. Read more of this post

Recapturing Beginnings

Origins and the Gospel

February 12th 2009 marked the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin. While there are many angles one might take, rather than address arguments for or against the various view points on origins there are other questions that deserve consideration. It has been my experience that many Christians seldom consider the ramifications of any particular view of creation. Yet many times we see in scripture that the presentation of the gospel, particularly to gentiles, include a treatise on origins. We see this in Lystra when Paul and Barnabas presented the Gospel and when Paul presented the Gospel at the Areopagus in Athens. Colossians and 2 Peter written to Gentile churches include treatise on creation. If the Apostles considered a correct understanding of creation, God as Creator, man and the fall, critical to the gospel then should we not as well?

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