Change of Plans

By the time you read this Marilyn and I will be making final preparations to head for the Holy Land, or already be there.

As you may have picked up in last month’s newsletter, gong to the Holy Land had not been a big item on my bucket list. I had reservations about the sites that have been identified, and had become convinced that no one really knew where biblical events actually took place. My skepticism has now been blown away!

Whether it was an algorithm or divine intervention I’m not sure, but I am sure the Lord had a hand in it. However He did it, I was led to Joel Kramer and Expedition Bible on YouTube, and I’m so glad I was. I’ve watched all his videos and read his book on biblical archeology, and am now ready to see it all myself. I couldn’t be more excited. On second thought, maybe I could be.

I really love sharing life’s adventures with you; yours and mine. When Marilyn and I went to Europe we took lots of pictures, and shared them with all who were willing to endure a very long presentation. I can’t believe I was asked if I was going to do it again after this trip.

Rather than have one marathon picture night, I’ve decided to incorporate our pictures into a series of Sunday night studies on the archeological evidences for the sacred sites as presented by Joel in his book and videos. That’s why the “change of plans” for Sunday nights.

I’m still looking forward to sharing with you Tim Challies’ “Epic: An around-the- world journey through Christian history.” I had said we’d start that in September, but at that time our trip to the Holy Land was not on our radar. Now that it’s happening, we’ll begin Tim’s study after we finish our epic around the Holy Land journey with you.

Hope to see you at the kick-off on the 10th, and looking forward to sharing our trip with you Sunday nights, beginning with a lot of pictures on September 17th.

God bless, Rick