Türkiye 🇹🇷 by Jaron Ferreira
#turkey #turkiye #VisitTurkey #grecoromanculture #earlychurch #earlychurchhistory #foostepsofpaul
Fascinating, surprising, enticing Türkiye 🇹🇷 You captured our hearts from day one ♥️ Turkiye is the Asia Minor mentioned in scripture 📖 75% of the New Testament is written to or from Asia Minor ✍🏻 All 7 Churches of Revelation (chapters 1-3) are in Türkiye ⛪️ Paul spent more time in Ephesus, the “Jewel” and capital of Asia Minor, than in any other city 💎 John, Mary the mother of Christ, Barnabas and Timothy all resided and ministered in Turkiye 🫶🏻Asia Minor / Türkiye is the cradle of early Christianity ✝️See the Bible come to life in Türkiye 🇹🇷 and Greece 🇬🇷 Join our Signature Study Tour, September 15-25, 2024! https://gtitours.org/trip/signature-turkey-2024 #türkiye #visitturkey #biblicalstudytours #asiaminor #foostepsofpaul #earlychurch #earlychurchhistory
Egypt is the Nile and the Nile is Egypt 🇪🇬 This river runs south to north like an artery, pulsing lifeblood to an otherwise desolate land. The waters bring life, beauty and fertility 💧 Sometimes on tour, we turn off the boat motor and let you imagine for a second that you're in ancient times, and that you thought you heard a baby's cry from somewhere in the bulrushes...
Cruise the Nile on our Signature Tour of Egypt and Jordan, Feb. 28-March 11, 2024 👈🏻
#Moses #Egypt #nileriver #nilerivercruise #signaturetour #footstepsofmoses #signaturetour #february2024 #exodus #outofegyptintoagoodland
https://gtitours.org/trip/signature-egypt-jordan-2024
K A D O S H / קָדוֹשׁ
Only God is everlastingly, intrinsically holy. Every other place or thing - the tabernacle, temple, people, times - are called HOLY because God shares His holiness with them: "Borrowed Holiness". Chad Bird explains how God sanctifies us (sets us apart) by inviting us into holy space which He, Holy God, occupies. 🇮🇱 ✡️🕎 🙌🏻
#Hebrew #hebrewlanguage #holyholyholy #Kadosh #sanctified
Chad Bird reminds us that when we study the Bible, we must transport ourselves to a different time, language, culture and way of reasoning. For example, our western culture values individualism whereas the biblical eastern culture values community. When we describe emotions, we use abstract terms; Hebrew describes them using concrete bodily experiences. Patient is "long of nose" (סבלני); stubborn is "stiff of neck" (עַקשָׁן). God made a concrete covenant with a concrete people in a concrete land. Thinking in this way aligns with how He worked on behalf of His Chosen People, and on our behalf today.
We all have tangible things we treasure. But instead of jewelry from a family member or a special souvenir from a trip, God holds Israel dear to His heart. Chad Bird describes her as God's S'GULLAH - "treasured possession" (Exodus 19:5). Peter refers to this status in the New Testament (I Peter 2:4) when he calls Believers "chosen and precious", so precious that God was willing to give up His own Son to redeem us, His radiant Bride, the Church. #Hebrew #hebrewwords #treasuredkeepsakes #Treasuredpossession #royalpriesthood #Israel #Israelites 🇮🇱 💙
Proverbs 3:6 is a favorite verse: "In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths." The Hebrew word for "acknowledge" is YADA - to know, not just mentally but intimately by experience, as Chad Bird explains.
Whatever road/path/journey we each walk in life, we do not walk it alone. The One who said, "I am the WAY, the truth and the life" (John 14:6) walks with us and carries us. Regardless of what the journey holds, nothing can separate us from His love (Romans 8:35). 👣 🚶♀️🚶♂️
#proverbs356 #AcknowledgeHim #directyourpaths #Yada #hebrewlanguage #hebrewlearning #lifejourney #YouNeverWalkAlone #iamthewaythetruthandthelife
Chad Bird reminds us that the same God who commanded Abraham to "get going" also walks with us through our own life journey 🙌 🚶♂️🚶♀️👣
Halak - "walk" הָלַךְ
Lech-Lecha - "get going" לֶךְ-לְךָ
#Hebrew #hebrewlanguage #getgoing #Abraham #chadbird
"Everlasting God" in Hebrew
Our latest podcast episode features Hebrew scholar Chad Bird. We will also be sharing one of his teaching videos each month. February's features the Hebrew name for Everlasting God: ’Elohei ‘olam, the God who is above, outside of, and unbound by TIME. ✡️ 🇮🇱 🕎 🙌🏻
"Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom." (Isaiah 40:28 NIV)
#hebrew #hebrewwords #EverlastingGod #unboundbytime #isaiah40v28
Petra, Jerash, Wadi Rum and so much more! See the spectacular country of Jordan 🇯🇴 🤩 🙌
Pastor Matt Bach from Bridgeway Christian Church in CA shares from Jerusalem 🇮🇱🙌🏻
The Well Church having fun on the Sea of Galilee! 🌊 🇮🇱
Pastor Aaron Couch of Southeast Christian Church in CO shares while on tour in Israel 🇮🇱
Pastor Aaron Couch of Southeast Christian Church in CO shares while on tour in Israel 🇮🇱 “If you ever wanted to bring a trip… right now is THE TIME!” 🙌🏻
Today's podcast features our first female guest and former trip participant, Kristen Hartman from southern California. Her 2014 study tour of Israel prompted her to write a moving piece entitled, "Homesick for Israel" which she sent shortly thereafter to GTI General Manager Rich Ferreira. In God's beautiful timing, Rich rediscovered it during COVID and used it to create a stunning video about Israel which we promoted in May of 2020. Kristen and Rich show us that the Land generates within each of us many common thoughts and emotions, a longing to return Home to "one small point on a map." Visit https://gtitours.org/podcast for photos, links, and more from this episode. #Israel #biblicalstudytours #homesickforisrael #newpodcastepisode 🇮🇱 🙌🏻 💙 🤩📍🗺 🎙🎧
Shavuot and Pentecost
David “Moose” Garrett is our podcast guest today. He has served in a variety of capacities at the international headquarters of Jews for Jesus in San Francisco since 1981. His current position is Children and Youth Ministry Director. Helping raise up new generations of Jewish believers in Messiah continues to be the most rewarding aspect of his ministry. Today David discusses the pilgrimage holiday of Shavuot and its transition into the holiday of Pentecost, which is celebrated this year on May 16-18. #newpodcastalert #shavuot #pentecost #firstfruits #jewsforjesus 🇮🇱🥛🧀🌾🔥🕊🙌🏻🎙 🎧
Today our guest is Dr. Oliver Hersey who has been appointed to serve as the next president for Jerusalem University College in Jerusalem, Israel. He shares about the history of the school, the learning experience there in person as well as some new opportunities online. Dr. Hersey also shares what Habakkuk 3:19 means to him and family personally as they transition to their new home in Israel. https://gtitours.org/podcast for photos, links, and more from this episode. #israel #jerusalem #juc #feetforthepath #hindsfeetinhighplaces #habakkuk319 #newpodcastepisode 👏🏻🥾⛰🇮🇱🎙🎧
Brian Haynes, senior pastor of Bay Area Church in Houston, Texas is our guest today. Brian has been to partnering with GTI Tours for over 8 years to bring groups to Israel. He shares today about a favorite site in the Galilee, Capernaum, which was the home and headquarters of Christ's ministry. John 15:16 which says, "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit..." Not only was Christ's call to the disciples an astonishing second chance for them to follow a Rabbi, it was an ever-reaching voice still sending the same message to us today. Jesus believes in us; He thinks we can be JUST LIKE HIM! Visit https://gtitours.org/podcast for photos, links, and more from this episode. #john1516 #bearfruit #justlikehim #capernaum #israel #learnintheland #newpodcastepisode 🇮🇱🐠🎙🎧
Our podcast guest today is Terry Feix of Crossings Community Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Terry shares insight into his favorite site, Tel Arad, which is in the Negev desert region of Israel. He reminds us that we, like the Israelites who lived here so long ago, have a tendency to waver in keeping God our only god. Visit https://gtitours.org/podcast for photos, links, and more from this episode. #Israel #telarad #noothergodsbeforeme #newpodcastepisode 🇮🇱 🎙
