In the first of a new series, Chris Sparks reflects on his recent pilgrimage to the Holy Land where, he discovers, "The reason why anyone visits the Holy Sepulcher at all is that it’s empty."
"I have seen the cave of Elijah," Chris Sparks recalls. "Its value is in what happened there, and who visited — the prophet, yes, but more importantly, God."
"There was something special, something like coming home, in visiting the Mediterranean Sea, the Sea of Galilee, the River Jordan, and the Dead Sea in the Holy Land," says Chris Sparks in the third article on his recent pilgrimage.
God's representatives on earth failed at the house of Caiaphas, and through that failure, our salvation came to pass. So Chris Sparks reveals in this fourth article on his epic pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
What do you do when God doesn’t tell you to do anything in particular, save to watch, wait, and pray? Chris Sparks searched for the answer in he Garden of Gethsemene during a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
"The whole of the Holy Land is an icon of the soul in relationship to God," Chris Sparks observes. "One can discern in the gardens and the deserts of the Holy Land all stages of salvation history."
"Many, many years have passed since Christ walked the earth in the time before His resurrection, but still we call that land holy," Chris Sparks observes in this final installment of his Holy Land pilgrimage series.
