Tag: solomon

  • Advent 2 of Christmas Evangelicalism

    Advent ‘Advent of what’ we ask? a Nativity Scene on the mantle for Advent and our annual Christmas feast? A COVID Christmas – Shall we take Jesus out of the box includes history of Christmas in the U.S. December 1, 2020 C.E. “Before what?” Last time in our ADVENT 1 post from this 2024 Common…

    Man standing beneath the hull of Noah's ark before the flood lifts it above the earth
  • Preaching from Herod’s Porch

    You’ve never heard it called ‘HEROD’S PORCH,’ but certainly that must have been the inferred imagery when Herod the Great named it, ‘Solomon’s Porch,’ (porticum Salomonis, in the Latin of Herod’s Roman friends). Now while Kefa and Yochanan were being held by him, all the people ran together to them at the Portico which is…

    drawing of Herod's Temple
  • COVID – the Affliction of Social Distancing

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    Solomon’s Jerusalem – the end of an era Until the death of Solomon in 931 B.C., a glorious city of Jerusalem overlooked a great empire blessed by the LORD God, but then the politics of Israel divided the great land. In just a few generations Israel (Samaria) succumbed in 722 B.C. and Judah when Jerusalem…

    How lonely sits the city that was full of people! Lamentations 1:1 and 2020 city with few people