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Two tombs and the anastasis

October 18, 2013 | anastasis, Bethany, Garden Tomb, Gary Combs, Israel, Jerusalem, Lazarus, resurrection

“Jesus said to her, ‘Your brother will rise again. ‘ Martha said to him, ‘I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.’ Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you

The gates of Zion

October 11, 2013 | Damascus Gate, Eastern Gate, Gary Combs, gates, God, Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem, jesus, walls

“The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the other dwellings of Jacob” (Psalm 87:2 NIV). “Therefore Jesus said again, ‘Very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep’” (John 10:7). What a wonderful time we had in Israel this past summer! Robin and I learned so much in the land of the Bible.

Meditation on the Mount of Olives

September 27, 2013 | Eastern Gate, Gary Combs, Jerusalem, jesus, Light of the World, Mount of Olives, Sukkot, Temple Mount

“But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them” (John 8:1-2 NIV). This Sunday I’m preaching from John 8 where Jesus made his second “I AM” saying. John begins the chapter by clearly describing the