jesus himself to help us answer who really was john the baptist? the deserts in the first century. a wild place at the fringes of the roman empire. the promise of a new savior. his name is john the baptist. john the baptist is the first chapter to the long and amazing story of jesus. he tees it up for jesus to come and be the true maessiah. he comes with a fire and he wants people to feel it here. who are you? are you safe? why do you come here? he questions their motives. this is an intense figure out in the wilderness and the wilderness is where things really happen spiritually. he s a mysterious figure. he s strange and he s out there. he s dressed in this very, very old way and slightly dangerous and scary. today the unique appeal of this profit has been loss to history. who was this fiery creature who would har rold the coming of the messiah and what was it that drew jesus to it? now science joins history in a new quest in the future it may be possible to e
is it possible that everything we ve assumed about her is wrong, and could lost gospels help fill in the missing parts of her story and tell us who really was mary magdalene? blsz for many christians today, mary magdalene is revered for her compassionate love for jesus. i think jesus meant everything to mary. she was present at the crucifixion and, most importantly, she was present at the resurrection. she s the first person to whom jesus appears after his resurrection. do not weep nor grieve nor be irresolute. for his grace will protect you. yet when it comes to the details of mary s life, the bible says very little. the new testament mentions her just 12 times. mary magdalene is remarkable. there s so few mentions of her in the gospels, but they re so central to the story of jesus. and they ve filled our imagination for centuries. in reality, many of our ideas about mary are no more than myth. perhaps the most enduring one is that she is a fallen woman, a pr
i swear i do not know the man. head strong, stumbling, confused, questioning: jesus loves peter not in spite of his failings, i think sometimes, but because of them. the vatican claim they have found peter s bones beneath the basilica which bears his name. they may have discovered the ancient man upon whom the church and all its traditions are founded. who is peter? did he travel to rome to lay the foundations for the christian church? and could these really be peter s bones? [ speaking in foreign language ] november 2013, vatican city, rome. pope francis causes a sensation. 2013 was a year of faith, and as part of an extra kind of reward for pilgrims who had come, pope francis displayed these nine bones, and he s essentially making the claim that he s holding right there, the bones of the person who founded the church in rome: st. peter. the revelation of st. peter s bones makes headlines around the world. this is something that has never happened befor
always great to be with you, my friend. lying is so hard and hardly makes people blush. let s go back a little bit of the hunter s laptop and the new jim crow lie or so on and so forth. the lie that the coronavirus could not possibly come from a lab leak in wuhan, china, that was said by many in the media or some in the government. that lie may top of it all. the energy department joined the fbi in saying, yep, the virus spread via mishap at a chinese lab. the white house is hopeful that the obvious made out the truth. there is still no consensus within the administration. the president believes it is important that we continue that work and that we find out as best we can how it started so we can better prevent futures pandemic. the community and the rest of the government is still looking at this. there is not a definitive conclusion. meanwhile, the chinese are pushing back that won t surprise you. if you follow the story at all, here is what they are saying tonight
i like to, you know, mix it up. hitchhiking down the texas one time. mm hmm. so ufo down there . mhm was about 1976 after i joined what was called the ufo code. but anyway, i didn t have any sex with aliens or anything like that. other parts of that i can keep on talking about but. i don t want to freak people out. thank you. let s see here. this book was written by didn t know the cover says how and when heaven s gate and the biggest letters the door to the physical kingdom level above human maybe entered. as the two older members put out a statement. held public meetings over about a nine month period. 1975 76 to bring their crew together. the media tagged them the ufo cult. because of their expectation of leaving aboard spacecraft. the two older members then went into seclusion with their crew. after that nine month period. of holding meetings around the country. t and i felt like we had instruction to call the students together. and to begin an intensive or in depth. clas