ONLY 3 DAYS UNTIL ISRAEL! - The TEMPLE MODEL in ISRAEL MUSEUM! - The second temple was enlarged by King Herod, who took the original mountain that the temple was on, built it up with dirt, and built retaining walls to enlarge the area into a huge platform--24 football fields worth, making…

Jesus' journey into Jerusalem from Galilee would take him along the Jordan River down to Jericho. Jericho is one of the oldest cities in the world, and is well below sea level--1800 feet below, making it the lowest city on earth. It is thought that the "Valley of the Shadow of Death" from Psalm 23 was here, on the path between Jerusalem and Jericho on the…

Jesus went around the countryside, preaching, teaching, healing, and casting out demons for three and a half years. But eventually he knew that he had to go into Jerusalem, to confront the corrupt religious leaders, and to die. Not just die, but be betrayed, mocked, beaten, and brutally killed, or crucified naked upon a cross--branded a criminal, a failed…

Discipleship is about a way of life, and in what is commonly called "The Sermon on the Mount" (Mt. 5-7), Jesus went up on a high area outside of Capernaum overlooking the Sea of Galilee, in a traditional spot named "The Mount of Beatitudes."…

9 DAYS UNTIL FILMING IN ISRAEL! - SEA OF GALILEE! - As the above video shows, we all follow someone or something, whether we acknowledge it or not.…

11 DAYS UNTIL FILMING STORY OF REDEMPTION! - CAPERNAUM! - Lesson 5 in the Story of Redemption is on discipleship, and picks up after Jesus' successful triumph over Satan and the temptations that he faced in the desert. Matthew tells us that Jesus left Nazareth- (where he grew up and preached from the great Isaiah scroll - Luke 4:16f-and was rejected, and attempted to…

ONLY 13 DAYS UNTIL FILMING IN ISRAEL! - MOUNT OF TEMPTATION

Matthew tells us that after Jesus was baptized, he was led out into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil. In the church, the "Monastery of the Temptation," a Greek Orthodox…

14 DAYS UNTIL FILMING IN ISRAEL! - JORDAN RIVER - The birth of Jesus the Messiah was the most dramatic entry of God into human history, and it signaled to the world that a new age had begun, with Christ as king. This new Messianic age is a dramatic in breaking of the kingdom of God, also referred…

19-18 DAYS UNTIL FILMING IN ISRAEL! - You may or may not have hear of Qumran (in picture above), which is beside the Dead Sea, but you have probably heard of the "Dead Sea Scrolls." In 1947 a Beduoin shepherd boy name Muhammed was watching his folks, and some of the goats were climbing too high in these cliffs. So he climbed…

20 DAYS UNTIL STORY OF REDEMPTION IS FILMED IN ISRAEL! - BETHLEHEM AND JESUS' BIRTH - One of the places that we will go, of course, in Israel, to film the Story of Redemption is Bethlehem, which was a small village a few miles outside of Jerusalem where Jesus was born.

The Story of Redemption primarily follows…

20 DAYS UNTIL STORY OF REDEMPTION IS FILMED IN ISRAEL! - BETHLEHEM AND JESUS' BIRTH - One of the places that we will go, of course, in Israel, to film the Story of Redemption is Bethlehem, which was a small village a few miles outside of Jerusalem where Jesus was born.

The Story of Redemption primarily follows…

21 Days Until Story of Redemption Films in Israel! - MASADA! - When the wise men from the East came to Jerusalem looking for the one who had been born "King of the Jews," Matthew's gospel says that King Herod and "all Israel" was disturbed. It makes sense that the paranoid Herod, who was an Idumena / Edmonite, and not a Jew,…

22 DAYS UNTIL STORY OF REDEMPTION IS FILMED IN ISRAEL!  - One of the places that I am excited about going to and filming is the "Jesus Trail," which is the 40 mile trail that Jesus would have walked many, many times from his home town of Nazareth to Capernaum, where he began his ministry.

We will film this as part of Story of Redemption Lesson 5, which is on discipleship…

24/23 Days Until Story of Redemption is Filmed in Israel! - When we read the New Testament, we often fail to understand the incredible political situation into which Jesus was born. Jerusalem had been ruled over by different empires for hundreds of years--most recently by the Romans--and was ruled over more immediately by King Herod the Great.

It was a volatile region, and the Jews of course hated being ruled over by the Romans. But most of them hated being…

The city of Hebron, which is not far outside of Jerusalem, is one of the most ancient cities of the world (Num. 13:22). The city is linked most especially to three people: Abraham, David, and King Herod the Great. The Cave of Machpelah / Cave of the Patriarchs…

It is 26 days until the Story of Redemption is filmed in Isarel! Well, actually, it is 25 days, as it is well past 12 am. Just shows how packed the days are as we are preparing for the trip to Israel. There is so much to do!

One of the places that we will go and film is at Caesarea Maritima, Caesarea by the sea. This beautiful city on the beach was built…

Yesterday I was filled with joy as one of our good friends, Kelly Weatherford, posted that her husband, Charlie Weatherford, was just hired…

28 DAYS UNTIL ISRAEL FILMING! - "HOUSE OF DAVID" ARCHAEOLOGY FINDING DEMONSTRATES KING DAVID DID EXIST! - The Story of Redemption is designed to tell the overall biblical story and build faith seekers and hopefully strengthen this faith in long time believers. While this series primarily draws upon the power of the biblical story well told to build faith, many…

To find out more about the Story of Redemption, go to www.StoryofRedemption.com!

#29 - JERUSALEM, the TEMPLE, and THE DOME OF THE ROCK - There are 29 days until the Story of Redemption (SOR) begins filming in Israel, and I want to highlight a…

On March 1, I leave for three weeks to go to Israel to film…