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Day 8 The Infamous Ladder
Have you ever brushed shoulders with or sat next to someone famous and not know it…

Jerusha
Jun 9, 20222 min read


Day 7 Raining Chairs
Chairs — one plastic and two metal — came crashing upon the shelter above our heads today. The first one took us by surprise; the...

Jerusha
Jun 8, 20221 min read


Day 6 Your name means…
We learned about Judaism from two Jewish teachers today. They translate Jewish into Christianese and helped us understand both their...

Jerusha
Jun 6, 20222 min read


Day 5 Getting Lost in Old Jerusalem
My favourite part of the day: Wandering…

Jerusha
Jun 6, 20222 min read


Day 4 Church Hoppin’
O Little Town of Bethlehem, the Bread-house of the world…

Jerusha
Jun 4, 20221 min read


Day 3 Bethlehem Bible College
…and I thought, Christ’s people bring hope.

Jerusha
Jun 3, 20221 min read


Day 2 Hilltop View
Tantur means “hilltop” in Arabic…

Jerusha
Jun 2, 20222 min read


Day 1 The Human Language
I wonder what it sounded like when Jesus was here?

Jerusha
Jun 1, 20223 min read


Day 0 “Are you travelling to the Holy Land alone?”
“Yes, until I am received by my hosts at Tantur,” I often reply. What I should say is…

Jerusha
May 31, 20221 min read


Meeting God at the Bus Stop
(This testimony was shared at Regent's chapel on 25th Jan 2022) If I were an actress learning to cry on command, if I needed to summon...

Jerusha
Jan 6, 20224 min read


Easy Yoke (Matthew 11:28-30)
Jesus says, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Since Christ’s promises are always guaranteed,...

Jerusha
Feb 6, 20212 min read


Courses for Winter 2021 (Jan to Apr)
These are my courses for the current term: Preaching and Worship Communal worship is when God's people gather and praise Him and rehearse...

Jerusha
Feb 6, 20212 min read


Claim
To each you let into your life To each you give the knife With which to cut you free Or cut you slack Or then to stab you in the back So,...

Jerusha
Jan 31, 20211 min read


Sharing Music
Some time last fall, I met a fellow songwriter from church. The pandemic was driving us stir-crazy so we took our guitars to a park and...

Jerusha
Jan 31, 20212 min read


Paying Attention : Courses for Fall 2020 (Aug to Dec)
Here's what I think: God pioneered the probation period Don't believe me? See Exodus 19:1 and note that God performed at least two months...

Jerusha
Jan 31, 20213 min read


Three-Word Summaries for 2020
So, my housemates and I packed into Jenn's car, drove onto a ferry, and escaped to Bowen Island for new year's Eve. We figured that this...

Jerusha
Jan 1, 20212 min read


Courses for Summer 2020 (June to August)
I am backkkk...if you missed me, blame the intensive Biblical Hebrew language course that took me away this summer. Regent College offers...

Jerusha
Aug 12, 20202 min read


Not Alone
Do you know the feeling when you heard a song that said what you needed to say but didn't know how? Multiply that by a life time. I just...

Jerusha
Apr 16, 20202 min read


Make Haste Slowly
I spent the last two weeks of social / spatial distancing in the company of the Rabbit from Alice in the Wonderland, except it is pink...

Jerusha
Mar 31, 20202 min read


Living in the In-Between
It is Day-16 of social distancing at Vancouver. I prefer the term "physical distancing" or "spatial distancing" since we should never...

Jerusha
Mar 31, 20203 min read
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