Pennsylvania is a state in the northeast United States. Its history served great importance in American history, and with that includes the growth of Christianity through early settlers and immigration. Oftentimes, churches were set up to serve particular immigrant groups. According to the Pew Research Center (2014), 73% of the population in Pennsylvania are Christians, […]
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Sometimes taking a long, expensive trip to a famous pilgrimage site just isn’t a possibility. At least, right now. Maybe it is too hard to come up with the money necessary to go. Or maybe it’s difficult to bank enough vacation hours. Or maybe there’s a virus going around, and everyone has to stay home.
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November 15, 2019 There’s really not much to today other than enjoying the fact that I flew business class back home from London. Now, it was part of the original plan to fly business class on the way home as I talked about in this post. But…before enjoying any of the associated benefits, I had
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November 14, 2019 Today marked my last day in Israel. Because the weather was still great, I went to the beach one last time before wrapping things up and going to the airport. Again, a reminder that “TJ” refers to both or either of my hosts, whose initials are both “TJ”. And for context, they
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November 13, 2019 Apparently yesterday’s missiles ended at some point, and a cease fire occurred overnight. But the jihadists started firing some more in the morning. We intended to go down to Masada and the Dead Sea today. But because of having to drive around the West Bank, the route would have put us uncomfortably
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November 12, 2019 This is the day that Islamic Jihadists fired missiles at Israel from the Gaza Strip. That changed some plans for today. To start off the day, I had coffee with TJ before he went off to work. My game plan was to go for a run and run to Apollonia, which is
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November 11, 2019 The past two days were CRAZY because we hit up a bunch of sites. For today, I figured some time for rest and recovery would be good. Today illustrates a concept about how pilgrimages can be both spiritually edifying and travel-ly edifying too. Out there in the wild, when you search for
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November 10, 2019 The goal for today’s adventures included going to the northern part of Israel to visit Mt. Tabor, Nazareth, and Capernaum. The morning started off easy with prayer, shower, breakfast, and heading out the door at 9AM. Unlike the day before, today was slower-paced. Summarizing the entire road trip, we made some wrong
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This pilgrimage took place between November 9-13, 2019. As you may know, I write down collected prayer intentions in a little blue notebook when I go on pilgrimages. It’s nice to have something tangible other than my iPhone when at different sites praying for others. You can read more here. For this Israel 2019 pilgrimage,
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November 9, 2019 This was a really cool, but really kind of insane day. Bethlehem and Jerusalem were on the agenda. To Jerusalem! …Kind of I was pretty tired from the night before having arrived late at night and then staying up a little more. We had breakfast at 8AM and headed out the door
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