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Israel Study Tour – March 2019
We are excited to announce that we still have spots open on our Israel Study Tour happening in March of 2019. Joining our trip means you will be on a “Learn your Bible” tour, not a “Let’s see Israel” vacation. Visiting sites that many other tours do not, our goal is that you gain a…
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Born in Bethlehem
No man knows the future, and yet the prophets of the Old Testament correctly foretold many things about the coming Messiah. One of those prophets, Micah, gives a specific detail about where the Messiah will be born: “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come…
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The Oldest Yahweh Inscription
This is a talk that I gave at Calvary Chapel Salt Lake City about the oldest discovered inscription of the name “Yahweh” which is found on a pillar in the ancient temple of Amenhotep III in Upper Egypt which is modern day Sudan. This inscription is incredibly significant in establishing the historical authority of the…
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Octocopter Down
Last Thursday was an interesting day. My son, Barry, and I left at dawn and drove down to Tel Lachish to shoot aerial video footage for an excavation that is underway there. As we began our last flight, with no warning and for reasons we have yet to figure out, our octocopter began to careen…
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Passover — Led Like A Lamb
Last night all over Israel, families sat together at Seder meals remembering God’s miraculous salvation of his people at the original Passover. Those thousands of years ago in Egypt, lambs were slain. Blood was applied. Sons lived. Slaves were led to freedom. That was not the end of the story, however, because around 1400 years…
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Jerusalem: The Bible and the Book of Mormon
Believe it or not the archaeological Achilles’ heel of the Book of Mormon is not the multiple cities it discusses that have never been found, but rather the one city it mentions that is actually real. Jerusalem is the only city that is found in both the Bible and the Book of Mormon and is…
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The Mountain of the LORD
Mount Moriah — the Mountain of the LORD. More than 4,000 years of recorded history have been played out on that particular spot, a location specifically chosen by God to accomplish His sovereign purposes. I have often tried to contemplate all that has happened there. The works of God are so overwhelmingly incomprehensible! This video short…
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The Lost Sheep
The metaphor of a lost sheep can help us to understand the original sin. Eve was the first sheep to go astray. She was in a perfect relationship with God when she willfully chose to leave that perfect life and believe a lie–that she could become like her Shepherd. Because Eve believed she could take…
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The Walls of Jericho
The Bible tells us a story of an ancient city, Jericho, whose walls came tumbling down by God’s supernatural power. When archaeologists excavated the tel of Jericho thousands of years later, they unearthed a collapsed city wall. Of all the cities that have been excavated in the lands of the Bible, the only one with a collapsed city wall…