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Summary of This Week’s Blogging Hidden Treasure in the British Museum Monday, August 6 Ancient Ephesus and the New Testament: Introduction Tuesday, August 7 The Location and Environment of Ephesus Wednesday, August 8 Touring Ancient Ephesus Thursday, August 9 Touring Ancient Ephesus, Part 2 Friday, August 10 Usual Airplane Fare A few weeks ago I…

Part 4 of series: Ancient Ephesus and the New Testament Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series A tour of Ephesus usually begins, as I explained yesterday, at the eastern end of the city because from the you walk downhill rather than uphill. In the map to the right you can see several…

Part 3 of series: Ancient Ephesus and the New Testament Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series In late June I took a tour of Ephesus. It lasted about two hours, and was quite informative. Our tour guide, a Turkish woman (in center of picture to the right) really knew her stuff. It…

Part 1 of series: Ancient Ephesus and the New Testament Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series Ephesus, or what is left of it, lies on the western edge of modern day Turkey, just about five miles inland from the Aegean coast. The picture to the right shows the location of Ephesus. It…

Part 1 of series: Ancient Ephesus and the New Testament Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series For many of us, the events of the Bible seem to take place in some magic world of “Bible lands,” a wonderland rather like the one discovered by Alice. We read about Jerusalem, Nazareth, Corinth, and…

The British Museum contains some of the greatest treasures of the world. Here you can view that actual Rosetta Stone. This amazing museum is filled with the finest remnants of the ancient world. If you visit the once-famous Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, for example, you’ll see only one lonely pillar, unadorned in the middle…

Excerpt I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. Psalm 34:1 Click here to read all of Psalm 34 Prayer Surely, Gracious God, You are worthy of my continual praise. Given all You have done for me, an endless chorus of gratitude wouldn’t begin to be enough.…

Recently my family and I went on a short camping trip to Big Sur, California. This is one of the prettiest spots in the whole state, and, in my opinion, in the whole country. Big Sur combines rugged coastline with redwood forests, soaring mountains with lush meadows. Summertime highs are right around 70 degrees, and…

While Linda and I were in London, we stumbled into a bit of Pottermania. Taking the Tube to Leicester Square, we emerged to find unexpected crowds of people, especially teenage girls. What was going on? We had accidentally crashed the London premier of the latest Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the…

My wife and I were in London on July 4th, Independence Day for Americans. For the British, of course, July 4th represents the beginning of a losing war effort and the ultimate loss of the American colonies. So I was prepared to receive a cold shoulder from the folks in London that day. At lunch,…
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