Tim Schmig, host of the VCY Ministry Trip to Boston, takes the group by the Shoe Store where a little known Sunday School teacher stopped by to ask D.L. Moody about his soul.
Tim Schmig, host of the VCY Ministry Trip to Boston, takes the group by the Shoe Store where a little known Sunday School teacher stopped by to ask D.L. Moody about his soul.
Learn the story behind “Safe in the Arms of Jesus” and “I Shall Know Him” as we go on location to Bridgeport, CT where Fanny Crosby’s later years were spent. We’ll see: Bridgeport Public Library: Open any hymnal and you will find countless hymns by Fanny Crosby. Though her early life was spent in New Read more…
The Old Rugged Cross was written over a hundred years ago, and performed in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Friends Community Church has an outdoor memorial commemorating the first public performance of the hymn, and we take you there! #churchhistoryonlocation
We stopped in Dayton, Tennessee to see the Rhea County Courthouse, site of one of the most famous trials in the 20th Century!
The largest collection of Biblical artifacts is in the Midwest, the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago. The first thing you may appreciate is there are bathrooms in the basement. Upon entering, go behind the staircase on your right, and descend the steps to find the facilities. The University of Chicago was founded (and Read more…
As you enter the gallery, you will see a timeline of world history, and some other introductory displays. Our focus begins with the second collection on left.
The Cleveland Public Library contains an ancient peace treaty cone from Uruk/Erech, and the archaeologist’s note states “Erech is the city mentioned in the Biblical book of Genesis 10:10” Genesis 10:8-10 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. 9He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is Read more…
Abraham was born in 2166 BC, and 75 when he left Ur, making the year 2091 BC. The artifacts you see here would have been from around the time of Abraham. Genesis 11:31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his Read more…
The Amarna Letters are a collection of 380 clay tablets from the Office-House of Letters of Pharoah at Amarna, Egypt, now mostly in the British Museum. Conservatives believe that the Exodus was in 1446 BC, while liberal scholars believe that “if” there was an Exodus it was several centuries later. From a conservative date, these Read more…
Halfway down on the right. Hammurabi’s code is divided into 12 sections, and consists of 282 laws. Some claim Moses just borrowed from Hammurabi, so the Mosaic Code rather than being God-breathed is nothing special. Both the Mosaic Code and the Hammurabi Code impose the death penalty for adultery and kidnapping. Hammurabi’s code however imposes Read more…