The Garden Tomb

Over the past couple days we have considered where the Cross of Calvary and Jesus' burial took place.  We ran conflicting locations through 8 of the 9-part "test."  Today, we'll touch on that last test: Jesus was buried in a garden. The "traditional" site (held primarily by more liturgical Christian groups) is beneath the Church …

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To Golgotha – Part 2

We've been looking at the darkest day in history....the day of Jesus' crucifixion.  It is important not to lose sight of the truth that Jesus Christ WAS in the beginning! In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.  All things came into being through …

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To Golgotha – Part 1

Welcome back friends.  We have paused during the darkest day in history in order to shed some light on where Jesus was crucified.  If you did not take some time to read one of the Gospel accounts of Jesus' crucifixion before today's post, I urge you to stop and read one of the accounts now. …

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To the Cross

We spent yesterday and this morning visiting the most important sites for Christians. I've already reported about Jesus's trials before Pilate and Herod, but let's go back to the hours prior to Jesus being thrown into Caiphas, the High Priest's dungeon. (See yesterday's post for that part of the story.) The Gospels teach us that …

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