During a live, interactive “Office Hours” webcast Thursday, Sept. 1, at noon Eastern Time on the Duke Ustream channel, Carol and Eric Meyers will answer your questions about their archeological work, Jewish history and controversies surrounding artifacts linked to biblical history.
To ask the Meyerses a question — in advance or during the show — send an email to live@duke.edu, tweet with the tag #dukelive or post to the Duke University Facebook page. Learn more
You decide after watching this incredible video of an ancient city of the middle east.
Unique to all other archaeological finds, the walls of this city fell outward making a ramp that invaders could come up, leaving a burned city behind.
Jericho Unearthed – Bible Confirmed Once Again from Philip Cunningham on Vimeo.
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What is the significance of the number forty (40) in the Bible?
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Significance of the number forty 40 in the Bible
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Remember when Saul decided to go ahead and make a sacrifice to God because he got tired of waiting for the prophet Samuel to show up? (see 1st Samuel 15)
Samuel said to Saul, “To obey is better than sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of rams.” 1st Samuel 15:22
Here’s a simple idea to permanently mark this idea on the brains of students (adults or children).
Make two batches of cookies – chocolate chip are great of course. Substitute a half cup of salt for a half cup of sugar in one batch. Label that batch Fatorams. And the correctly made batch is labelled Tobeys.
You’re guaranteed that decades from now people will still remember that “to obey is better … than the fat of rams.”
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How many times was the word ‘immediately’ used in the Bible? Question from Egbetola O.
Here’s the tool we like to use
http://biblestudytools.com
This lets us choose
This is what we found for the word “immediately”
Can you see why we love this tool?
What tools do you use?
A volunteer at Mother Theresa’s home for those dying of AIDS said he felt completely useless since he could do nothing for those dying or for their physical pain. He could just sit with them.
Mother Theresa said, “What were Mary and the others doing at the foot of the cross?”
Here’s a way to demonstrate how just being there can relieve the suffering of others.
Supplies: old fashioned clothes pins with springs – one for each class member.
Have each class member use the right hand to hold the clothes pin so it’s open (pressing down on the ends and compressing the spring.) Tell them not to change hands but to just keep holding it open while you read them a story.
Now read them a nice long inspirational story of service and caring. When you notice some are starting to look pained pause your reading.
Tell them to keep holding the clothes pin open. BUT now take the left hand and wrap it around the right hand holding it gently.
Notice the relief. The right hand is still holding the clothes pin and still doing the work of holding it open. But the left hand gives support just by being there.
You can then finish reading the story. (you might need more than one to be sure they “feel the pain.”)
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Ever gotten so busy you suddenly realize it’s been days (weeks?) since you’ve opened your Bible at home for personal study? It can be hard to get started again. Especially if I’m still overwhelmed with whatever changed my routine in the first place.
Here are five tips I use to get me going again.
Best of all? Once I start reading I want to read more and more. Soon I’ve made it a regular part of my routine again. Just that bit of jump-start recharges my spiritual batteries enough to keep me returning again and again to the source.
What about you?
How do you restart a Bible reading habit when a sudden change in routine has broken it?
How do you keep up your Bible reading habit when you’re traveling? That’s where I really fall down.
Here’s How Other People Are Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible.
What about you?
Tip 1: Read it! Yep that’s a good one.
Tip 2: Learn it’s history and why it’s used by so many churches. Here’s the official King James Bible Trust Site. Or this movie KJB: The Book That Changed the World
Tip 3: Share it. Buy the inexpensive ones at Christian bookstores and hand them out or leave them to be found -in the park, on the bus, in a lobby. Keep one in your car to give away as you are touched by another’s need.
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From FoxNews July 27, 2011, A tomb believed to be that of St. Phillip the Apostle was unearthed during excavations in the ancient Turkish city of Hierapolis.
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Italian professor Francesco D’Andria said archeologists found the tomb of the biblical figure — one of the 12 original disciples of Jesus — while working on the ruins of a newly-unearthed church, Turkish news agency Anadolu reported Wednesday. “We have been looking for Saint Philip’s tomb for years,” d’Andria told the agency. “We finally found it in the ruins of a church that we excavated a month ago.” The structure of the tomb and the writings on the wall proved it belonged to St. Philip, he added.
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