Features Trip to New Zealand Day 1 After my aunt and uncle picked up Janet and I from the airport, our first stop in New Zealand was a public park called One Tree Hill. I knew that sheep heavily outnumber ...
Features Why politics frustrates you – the conflict of ... One of the more eye-opening books that I’ve read recently has been Thomas Sowell’s “A Conflict of Visions.” I have one or two things I want to say about it, but I’m going to need to give ...
Features The Conflict of Visions explained My other post (found here) explains the essence of the two visions and should be read first. Here, I want to dive a little deeper into the implications of the different visions. I’ll offer a brief explanation ...
Travel Israel’s ancient edge The Shephelah The Shephelah (pronounced like “Shfelah”, see this example) is the low-hills region in the Holy Land between the coastal plains and the high hills. This area long stood as a bit of a border region, and it ...
Features Five best excavation sites in Israel Excavation sites often get buried by all the religious and cultural things to see in Jerusalem, but you don’t have to be an archaeologist to fall in love with piles of old rocks. Here are my ...
Features Unjust steward, meet the prodigal son Unjust Steward: The Problems The “Parable of the Unjust Steward” in Luke 16:1-8 is confusing. It seems to teach lessons contrary to everything that lots of Christians believe in. The short version is that a steward for ...
Sunday Durfs Why did Christ come to Bountiful? Christ in the Americas As recorded in the book of 3 Nephi 11-28 in the Book of Mormon, Christ ministered to the people living in the Americas shortly after His resurrection. This partially fulfilled His prophecy in John 10:16 when ...
Sunday Durfs Jephthah: A Judge unrighteously judged I’ve noticed that many people associate the Old Testament with writings like Isaiah, or Jeremiah, often thinking of complicated, long, and confusing prophesies. Much of the Old Testament, however, is loaded with stories. We’re all familiar with stories like Noah, ...
Sunday Durfs Orthoenai Orthodoxy vs. Orthopraxy When studying the many religions in the world, it’s not uncommon to see publications categorize the many faiths as being either predominantly Orthodox (correct belief) or Orthoprax (correct action/practice). Writers and scholars often use ...
Sunday Durfs Joseph of Egypt – Christlike or Adamic? Parallels between Joseph of Egypt, Adam, and Christ There are a lot of parallels between Joseph of Egypt, Adam and Jesus Christ. Since nearly all Old Testament figures have parallels and are symbolic to other ...
