Some of you may have figured out that I am traveling to various top-secret locations during the latter half of June. I’m spending two weeks going to biblical sites none of which I have been to before. It is an amazing trip. Bet you can’t guess where these photos was taken. And lest you think… Read More »
Every TV in Greece has the World Cup playing. Every single one. No exceptions. And it doesn’t matter that Greece didn’t make it into the tournament. The World Cup is a soccer tournament, for those of you in the U.S.
This is a real museum piece. The only thing it lacks is a label. This was one of the few things in the archaeological exhibit which did not have a “no photos allowed” sign in front of it :-(.
Seeing a sign like this at the entrance of a monastery is not unusual. But something seems amiss when you see the sign in this context. (And the magazines are worse than what is visible in this photo.)
Just thought I’d let you all know that I’m safe :-) This sign is posted on the way into the town where I’m spending the night.
Nothing about this picture is fake. Not the head ornaments, not the orange wool, not the coy smile. I took it last week near Shechem. While cruising around in this machine. If you want to see the pictures I took yesterday, you’ll have to read the BiblePlaces blog.
Tonight Passover begins and we’ll be observing the Seder with our students in the classroom. That will be a good time of remembering God’s deliverance of his people from Egypt. One aspect that we’ll miss that the ancients didn’t was the cost of that deliverance – the death of the firstborn. The Lord “passed over”… Read More »
The above photo will make three of my four friends jealous. That’s not my only reason for posting it. I want to comment on the two people in the picture that you probably don’t know. Second from the right is Fotis, a Greek man who has devoted his life to reaching his people with the… Read More »
If you knew that I was in Greece, you’d probably guess that the above photo recalls Paul’s speech to the philosophers at Mars Hill in Athens (for another photo of the hill itself, see my other blog). Those who come from the best college in the world are probably jealous to realize who I got… Read More »
Today was one. There aren’t very many. I think there were more in previous decades and centuries, judging from their photographs. I can only remember a few. Jan 7, 2003, in an airplane. Apr that same year, in Galilee. And the next month, in Corinth. The day didn’t start that way. I slept poorly because… Read More »