JESUS BASED his ministry in a part of Israel that was known as a hotbed of supernatural activity for thousands of years—a place that features not one, but three megalithic sites described as “wheels of the giants.”
Why did he do it? What was special about the Upper Galilee and Golan Heights, the ancient kingdom of Bashan—a name that literally means “place of the serpent”?
Brian Godawa, award-winning screenwriter and best-selling author, Doug Van Dorn, author of Giants: Sons of the Gods, and the Director of the Institute of Biblical Anthropology Dr. Judd Burton, author of Interview With the Giant: Ethnohistorical Notes on the Nephilim, join us for our monthly Iron and Myth series to discuss the links between the region between Mount Hermon and the Sea of Galilee and the giants of old, speculate on why it’s literally covered with monuments to an ancient cult of the Rephaim, and explore the reasons Jesus may have had for choosing that area as the home base of his ministry.
JESUS BASED his ministry in a part of Israel that was known as a hotbed of supernatural activity for thousands of years—a place that features not one, but three megalithic sites described as “wheels of the giants.” Why did he do it? What was special about the Upper Galilee andContinue Reading
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WHAT DOES pickleball have to do with living life as a follower of Jesus Christ? Surprisingly, more than you’d think. Stacy Lynn Harp, Christian therapist and host of Bible News Radio, joins us to discuss her book Pickleball Faith: Inspiration On and Off the Court. Stacy explains how what appeared to beContinue Reading
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WHERE JESUS performed his miracles is often just as important as the miracles themselves. Case in point: The only miracle other than the Resurrection recorded in all four gospels is the feeding of the 5,000. The Bible tells us this occurred in a desolate area near Bethsaida, the hometown ofContinue Reading
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TWO THOUSAND years ago, the city of Ephesus was dominated by the cult of Artemis. Her temple was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, and the silversmiths who made images of the goddess started a riot because Paul’s preaching cut into their business. Stephan Caraway, co-founder ofContinue Reading
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ONE OF THE difficulties in understanding the spirit realm is that New Testament authors, especially Paul, used the same Greek terms for both earthly and heavenly beings. So, how do we understand terms like thrones, dominions, rulers, authorities, principalities, and powers? To borrow another phrase from Paul, as though we’reContinue Reading
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