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We’re talking a lot these days about alternate fuels– ethanol for instance. But there is another natural resource that has long been used for fuel in the ANE, including at Haran where this picture was taken. Those little spherical objects in the picture. Well, that’s dung. More specifically its probably some combination of donkey, cow,…

I am pleased to commend to you some fine new DVDs done by some first rate scholars, which are useful catalysts for getting deeper into the Biblical text and applying it in practical ways to the Christian life. If you like the Rob Bell videos, you should love these, and you will get far more…

Climbing up Mt. Nimrud did not prove to be as difficult as I had expected because we were able to drive to within about 1500 feet below the top of the mountain. I have a variety of pictures and thoughts to share with you in this post. What you are looking at above is in…

Finally a sequel that beats its predecessors and is not overloaded or over-bearing or overly long. Ocean’s 13, clocking in at 1 hour and 53 minutes and with a PG 13 rating proves that often less is more. We have a coherent, if occasionally complex script. We have good acting, and actors actually having fun…

Ephesos (also known as Ephesus for the Latin form of the name), was without question one of the crucial cities in Paul’s world. It is no accident that Paul, with his urban ministry strategy spent over two years in this city, using it as a place to indiginize the Christian faith into Graeco-Roman culture. The…

Jesus rides into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday on the foal of a raptor. People attempt to feed the raptor by laying palm branches on the road as he looks hungry.

Billy Graham received yesterday the treatment that normally is reserved for previous Presidents– he was given his own memorial library in Charlotte, N.C. Standing behind a lecture and looking frail but regal with his long white mane flowing down onto his shoulders Graham’s reaction to what had been done for him was typical– “I feel…

Somehow, I don’t think these were the signs of the times Jesus was referring to, but you have to admit, they do get your attention.

Baby Hawks nesting in the window slits inside the astrological tower Even Closer Up of the astrological tower at Harran Close up of the astrological tower at Harran Ancient Harran archaeological site The gateway into Harran. According to Gen. 11.31, the family of Abram moved from Ur of the Chaldees to Harran and lived there…

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