Religious Ambition, the Cost of Religious Pride
Last Monday, I was a tourist walking around in Bethlehem primarily to visit one of the oldest operating churches in the world. The church is built on top of the traditional site of the birthplace of Jesus Christ, and therefore it is revered by both the followers of Christianity [...]
Pictures from the2010 Israel trip.
Josephus, the Great Historian
For the past 20 years I have consistently heard one preacher or Bible teacher after another refer to or quote some guy named Josephus in order to explain something in the Bible. The interesting thing about that is that he was not a Christian. He was a Jew born in 37 AD [...]
Mount Moriah
Mount Moriah is mentioned twice in the Old Testament. In Genesis 22:2, God told Abraham to take his son Isaac to the land of Moriah, and offer him as a sacrifice on one of the mountains there. Moriah was a general area in the vicinity of what would later be Jerusalem. In 2 Chronicles [...]


