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Three times a year worshipers would travel up to the Jerusalem, the CITY ON A HILL, for the festivals. Over the years, a songbook developed that served as the pilgrims’ traveling songs. Psalms 120-134 are called "The Psalms of Ascent.” These are the songs the Jews sang as they ascended to Jerusalem and will be our theme as we travel together for a transformational trip to the land where Jesus walked.
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Friday, February 20, 2015
Snow at Damascus Gate in the Old City Jerusalem
This is what we left behind last night in Jerusalem! No snow here in Tel Aviv
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Thursday, February 19, 2015
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Mutabak pastry
This is all they do and they have been doing it since the middle of the 18 hundreds....6 generations 1 pastry
Lunch with Omar
Our group hands down voted this the best lunch yet. A dozen salads or more plus amazing lamb,turkey and beef kebabs.
Wet sifting
Our group started the day at the city of david wet sifting project. This involves carefully sorting through material for things like pottery,mosaic tiles and burnt bones from the time of animal sacrifice.
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Saying goodbye
today was our last day with our beloved guide Hani. We will miss him greatly the group has adopted him as part of our new family
Jerusalem bagel vendor
Jerusalem bagels or not your typical bagel they are large and oblong with a crust of sesame seeds served with a paper pouch filled with Zatar spice to dip. This was breakfast for us today!
Monday, February 16, 2015
Jewish scribe
This is a Jewish Rabbi who works on top of Masada copying the Torah...the first five books of the Bible. Each copy takes about a year
Morning Devotion for Tuesday the 17th
Morning Devotion for Tuesday the 17th
New Wineskins
Joanne Hansen
Today we are spending time at two very different places. This morning we will hear the story of the Jewish people suffering under evil oppression at the Yad Vashem holocaust museum and this afternoon we will visit the national museum and see the remains of thousands of years of history in the Holy Land. As we use this time to put things in perspective we need to challenge ourselves with sharing this Land, This People, This Word with others. What does it mean to be modern day disciples of the Rabbi Jesus and what do we do with His command to share this story with the world.
In Mark 2:22 we read:
And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins."
Howard Snyder writes:
Every age knows the temptations to forget that the gospel is ever new. We try to contain the new wine of the gospel in old wineskins—outmoded traditions, obsolete philosophies, creaking traditions, old habits. But with time the old wineskins begin to bind the gospel. Then they must burst; and the power of the gospel pour forth once more. Many times this has happened in the history of the church. Human nature wants to conserve, but the divine nature is to renew. It seems almost a law that things initially created to aid the gospel eventually become obstacles—old wineskins. Then God has to destroy or abandon them so that the gospel wine can renew man's world once again. The gospel is new in our day. It is still "the power of God." It is still bursting old wineskins and flowing forth into the world.... But there is something else this parable teaches us—the necessity of new wineskins. Wineskins are not eternal. As time passes they must be replaced—not because the gospel changes, but because the gospel itself demands and produces change! New wine must be put into new wineskins—not once-for-all, but repeatedly, periodically.
New Wineskins
Joanne Hansen
Today we are spending time at two very different places. This morning we will hear the story of the Jewish people suffering under evil oppression at the Yad Vashem holocaust museum and this afternoon we will visit the national museum and see the remains of thousands of years of history in the Holy Land. As we use this time to put things in perspective we need to challenge ourselves with sharing this Land, This People, This Word with others. What does it mean to be modern day disciples of the Rabbi Jesus and what do we do with His command to share this story with the world.
In Mark 2:22 we read:
And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins."
Howard Snyder writes:
Every age knows the temptations to forget that the gospel is ever new. We try to contain the new wine of the gospel in old wineskins—outmoded traditions, obsolete philosophies, creaking traditions, old habits. But with time the old wineskins begin to bind the gospel. Then they must burst; and the power of the gospel pour forth once more. Many times this has happened in the history of the church. Human nature wants to conserve, but the divine nature is to renew. It seems almost a law that things initially created to aid the gospel eventually become obstacles—old wineskins. Then God has to destroy or abandon them so that the gospel wine can renew man's world once again. The gospel is new in our day. It is still "the power of God." It is still bursting old wineskins and flowing forth into the world.... But there is something else this parable teaches us—the necessity of new wineskins. Wineskins are not eternal. As time passes they must be replaced—not because the gospel changes, but because the gospel itself demands and produces change! New wine must be put into new wineskins—not once-for-all, but repeatedly, periodically.
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This is my Son in whom I am well pleased
Nine in our group were baptized in the River Jordan today. Somewhere on this stretch of river Jesus Himself was baptized.
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Qumran...and the Dead Sea Scrolls
We are at Qumran an archaeological site in the West Bank It is located on a dry plateau about a mile inland from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea. It is best known as the settlement nearest to the caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were hidden. This was a community of Essenes, religious separatists at the time of Jesus. Some scholars surmise that John the Baptist was a member of this community.
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Sunday, February 15, 2015
Morning Devotion for Monday the 16th
Morning Devotion for Monday the 16th
Say to this Mountain
Mert Hansen
Today we travel up and over the Mount of Olives and down the other side through dessert terrain until we reach the lowest point on Earth. The Dead Sea.
In Matthew 21:18-22 we read:
Early in the morning, as Jesus was on his way back to the city, he was hungry. Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, "May you never bear fruit again!" Immediately the tree withered. When the disciples saw this, they were amazed "How did the fig free wither so quickly?" they asked. Jesus replied, "Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea, 'and it will be done. If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer."
In the L I F E APPLICATION COMMENTARY WE READ:
Jesus had cursed the fig tree; the fig tree had died; the disciples had expressed surprise. Jesus explained that they could ask anything of God and receive an answer. .. . They should not have been surprised that a fig tree could be withered at Jesus' words. Jesus was using a mountain as a figure of speech to show that God could help in any situation: This mountain (referring to the Mount of Olives on which they stood) could be thrown into the sea (the Dead Sea, which could be seen from the Mount). Jesus' point was that in their petitions to God they must believe without doubting (that is, without wavering in their confidence in God). The kind of prayer Jesus meant was not the arbitrary wish to move a mountain of dirt and stone; instead, he was referring to prayers that the disciples would need to faithfully pray as they faced mountains of opposition to their gospel message in the years to come. Their prayers for the advancement of God's kingdom would always be answered positively—in God's timing.
Say to this Mountain
Mert Hansen
Today we travel up and over the Mount of Olives and down the other side through dessert terrain until we reach the lowest point on Earth. The Dead Sea.
In Matthew 21:18-22 we read:
Early in the morning, as Jesus was on his way back to the city, he was hungry. Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, "May you never bear fruit again!" Immediately the tree withered. When the disciples saw this, they were amazed "How did the fig free wither so quickly?" they asked. Jesus replied, "Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea, 'and it will be done. If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer."
In the L I F E APPLICATION COMMENTARY WE READ:
Jesus had cursed the fig tree; the fig tree had died; the disciples had expressed surprise. Jesus explained that they could ask anything of God and receive an answer. .. . They should not have been surprised that a fig tree could be withered at Jesus' words. Jesus was using a mountain as a figure of speech to show that God could help in any situation: This mountain (referring to the Mount of Olives on which they stood) could be thrown into the sea (the Dead Sea, which could be seen from the Mount). Jesus' point was that in their petitions to God they must believe without doubting (that is, without wavering in their confidence in God). The kind of prayer Jesus meant was not the arbitrary wish to move a mountain of dirt and stone; instead, he was referring to prayers that the disciples would need to faithfully pray as they faced mountains of opposition to their gospel message in the years to come. Their prayers for the advancement of God's kingdom would always be answered positively—in God's timing.
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At the Western Wall
Observant Jew praying at the Western Wall. He is wearing the traditional prayer shawl, and a leather pouch on his forehead and arm. These contain scripture called the Shema...."Hear oh Israel, the Lord your God, the Lord is one"
Holy Sepulchre
Woman praying at the Church of Holy Sepulchre
This is the stone of anointing where Jesus body was prepared for burial
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