

A Lesson from Small Beginnings
Nazareth is our next stop. You recognize it immediately as where Jesus grew up. Although it is a little more than an hour’s drive on Hwy 90, 1200 years separate when the Dan tribe lived and when Jesus grew up! Talk about time travel! It’s all over Israel. You drive between the pages of history wherever you go. While there, I visited the Nazareth Village re-creation. It is a startling return to a much simpler lifestyle. Someone in costume led a donkey down the powdery li

Debbie Salter Goodwin
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The Tel of Dan Tells a Mixed Story
Land stories don’t lie. They are scrapbooks of victory and defeat, building and destruction. The layered history where the tribe of Dan acclimated to the Canaanite culture around them is a good illustration. Tel Dan lies north of the Galilee region, near the base of Mt. Hermon. And before we go any farther, you need to know what tel means in Israel. It is a mound of archaeological layers where civilizations built on top of each other and may be under excavation. I remember

Debbie Salter Goodwin
Oct 143 min read

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