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Get Ready for Passover by Making Some Mudbricks

February 24, 2014 2 Comments

Next week we’ll be beginning Lent, which looks forward to the Passover/Resurrection Day. Passover, of course, is the celebration of God’s redemption of Israel from slavery in Egypt. I think I’ve found the perfect activity for the season–making mudbricks like the ancient Israelites did in Egypt! Today Biblical Archaeology Review gave instructions on how to […]

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Learn About the Life of a Shepherd

January 17, 2013 22 Comments

It’s hard to read very far in your Bible before bumping into shepherds. We find them in parables, psalms and Christmas stories. Many of our biblical heroes (both men and women) herded sheep, like Jacob, Rebecca, Moses and David. And Jesus even pictured the final judgment in shepherding terms — as separating the sheep from […]

Filed Under: Blog, Blog: Book Reviews Tagged With: Bible times, Christmas, David, Faith Lessons, farmer, Herding, Israel, Jerusalem, Last Judgment, Margaret Feinberg, Middle East, Moses, Nogah Hareuveni, Pastoralists, Philip Keller, Pictorial Library of Bible Lands, Psalms, Sheep, Shepherd, shepherding, The Sheep and the Goats, Todd Bolen

The Dust Bowl and the Plagues

December 3, 2012 2 Comments

Dust Storm Coming

Have you ever wondered what it was like during the plagues? It seems beyond imagining to endure multiple waves of destruction, as the Egyptians did. Hail wipes out your crops. Disease destroys all your cattle. And on and on, ten times. This came to mind several times as I watched a new PBS documentary by […]

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