Geocaching Scripture

My first guest star! My pastor, Dan Hintz, puts his enormous brain to work on a geocache in church history. Pandemics are part of the early growth of the church, in which the believers served the sick and dying in a way that astounded the surrounding society. We discuss the Antoine Plague (250-260 AD) and the Plague of Cyprian (165-175 AD). Our ancestors in the faith showed a love born out of their theology, which offered more hope and greater dimension than the predominate pagan folk beliefs. Then I offered Dan some Burger King coupons to come back and visit us again. 

Mary mistakes Jesus for the gardener. God walked in the garden with Adam and Eve. Pay attention.

Jesus enters Jerusalem on a donkey in a torrent of misunderstanding about His identity. But the upset and confusion is just beginning. Big changes on the way.

Jesus prophesies the destruction of the temple in AD 70 in the genre of the apocalyptic, a highly symbolic language that's more about feelings than exact events. He is Lord, even when it seems like the world is ending.

Matthew 16. Jesus takes the disciples to Caesarea Philippi, a temple to the fertility god Pan and a cross between a Red Light district and a frat party gone way wrong. Here at the corner of desperation and dissolution, Jesus asks us, Who do you say that I am?

Jesus heals a man at the Pool of Bethesda – a location that was a hospital, a witch doctor and a dumping ground for people with disabilities. In short, a repository of desperation. 

Tim Lahaye is gonna have my legs broke. Re-reading this passage in its original context gives us a different picture than the popular American reading of the rapture. Christ's return is a glorious guarantee, but it will probably involve less flying around and Kirk Cameron. 

Paul writes "let your gentleness be evident to all." When was the last time we as Christians were called out on our gentleness?

Jesus turns the water into wine at a wedding. How much wine we talkin'? Why would He do a miracle involving a luxury item?