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Mount of the Beatitudes
After another olive oil soaked breakfast, we made our way to the Mount of the Beatitudes to a spot near where Jesus is believed to have delivered the Sermon on the Mount. There is of course a church built there … Continue reading →
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Tagged Beatitudes, Israel, James MacDonald, Lindsay McCaul, Sea of Galilee, Sermon on the Mount, Servanthood, Vocation / Calling
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Capernaum, Jesus’ Adult Home
After lunch, we back around to the northern end of the Sea of Galilee to visit Capernaum. One of the things I have definitely been finding disturbing is that every place Jesus did anything significant in Israel now has a … Continue reading →
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Tagged Beatitudes, Capernaum, Israel, Jesus, Peter (Apostle), Sea of Galilee, Sodom and Gomorrah
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In the Golan Heights, on the border between Israel and Syria
We took a short detour on our way back to the Sea of Galilee (where we’d spend the rest of the day) to get a better view of the Golan Heights and the Syrian border. We stopped at a produce … Continue reading →
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Tagged Damascus, Golan Heights, Israel, Megiddo, Syria, United Nations
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Caesarea Philippi
From Tel Dan, we headed east just a few miles to Caesarea Philippi – founded by Philip, one of the three sons of Herod the Great during the time Jesus walked the earth. Since then, it has been renamed Banius … Continue reading →
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Tagged Caesarea, Capernaum, Herod the Great, Israel, James MacDonald, Lindsay McCaul, Paganism, Peter (Apostle)
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Tel Dan
After breakfast, we departed the hotel in Tiberias and headed north along the Sea of Galilee, then through the Hula valley between the Ridge of Napthali on the Lebanese border and the mountains ridge of the Golan Heights, to Tel … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abraham, Beth'El, Canaanites, Damascus, Israel, King Jeroboam, King Solomon, Lebanon, Lyeish, Mount Hermon, Negev, Sea of Galilee, Syria, Teachings of Jesus / Parables
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Nazareth
We drove through the city of Nazareth, which may have been small in Jesus’ day but was pretty big by my standards today, and marveled at the sprawling fields of high-rise dwellings. We drove to the top of a small … Continue reading →
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