The foundation
After hubby and I got back from our trip to Greece, hubby’s aunt sent us this photo of the Parthenon from when his uncle was in Athens in the 1970’s. Pretty cool huh! Check out that base of…
An Unfair Advantage??
I just realized something which never occurred to me before! The last few weeks I've kept finding myself thinking: “We today have an advantage the people of Corinth didn’t have, because we have the full complete Bible and…
The Big 3
We sang a new song at church a few weeks ago which hubby and I had never heard before. We absolutely loved it! When we got home afterwards we looked it up … “So So Good” Phil Wickham,…
Food offered to idols
Hubby’s work buddy recently purchased a new home. He and his wife were throwing a Housewarming party and hubby and I were invited to the occasion! Exciting! Hubby’s and my expectations of the Housewarming party were that it…
When you simply don’t know …
When hubby and I moved into our home in the forest we didn’t know anything about caring for a forest piece of property. I automatically assumed that any plant which had thorns or prickles was a “nasty blackberry.” …
Get the thorn out of the finger!
Hubby and I were working out in the forest this past weekend pulling up invasive Himalayan blackberries by the roots, and invasive holly plants by the roots. We worked ‘til we wore ourselves out then we came inside…
YOU are God’s temple!
If I were to ask you this question: “What do you think is the most magnificent architectural structure today?” What would you answer? You might struggle for a moment to come up with an answer … because there…
A jumbled heap of stones!
In the last blog post we saw that the people who lived in and passed through the ancient city of Corinth were a widely diverse group of people. With Corinth being the capital of a major Roman province…
The people of Corinth
The ancient city of Corinth was the capital for the Roman province of Achaia (which included the Peloponnesian Peninsula as well as the southern region of mainland Greece). As a result, there would have been a large military…
Ancient Corinth
“One night the Lord Jesus Christ spoke to Paul in a vision: ‘Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent. For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you,…