Welcome to Nazareth.
…the Nazareth of 2,000 years ago, that is.
I can’t think of a better place to help me picture the life of Jesus. It’s also centuries closer to the rest of the Bible world. Paul, Peter, and even David and Abraham would have been much more at home here than in the twenty-first century. I suppose it’s easy to ask: Could somebody who grew up in a village like this have something to say to the modern world?
Recently, George Halitzka wrote an article dramatizing joy as it’s described in the book of Philippians. It’s easy to study the Bible, he says, but…”have you tried it?” I couldn’t get that phrase out of my head.
And that’s why I wrote this article.
“Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good!” – King David (Psalm 34:8)
Elisabeth Adams 