Mauldin Bible Land Tours

09/12/2024

Everyone is invited to our Fall Gospel Meeting, with Rodney Pitts! See our flyer here for information, including lesson titles. Note our Sun afternoon service time is 3:00 PM for singing, and 4:00 PM for preaching. Monday through Wednesday is 7:00 PM. Come share with us in the good things of the Gospel!

07/12/2024

In the midst of Peter's letter which was designed to equip/strengthen Christians who were suffering fiery trials for their faith, Peter spoke to them about enjoying life and seeing good days! (1 Pet. 3:10). This is something we all want! Click here on my blog for photos and article:

https://leonmauldin.blog/2024/07/12/peters-letter-living-life-and-seeing-good-days/

05/21/2024

Our annual VBS here with the Hanceville church of Christ is rapidly approaching, starting only one week from today! Everyone is invited, and we have classes for all ages, including adults! See our flyer here, and please let me know if you need further info.

04/21/2024

Our special series of biblical lessons gets underway tomorrow, Apr. 21, and continues through Friday PM, Apr. 26. We have invited David Maxson, evangelist from Auburn, AL) to be with us as our guest speaker. Everyone is invited! See the flyer here for more info. Our website is: https://hancevillechurchofchrist.com/

04/19/2024

In my current blog post I made a resource recommendation of Dr. Todd Bolen's (of BiblePlaces) newly published work on Genesis. You can read that post here:

I am enjoying perusing the newly published Photo Companion to Genesis, the latest addition to the Photo Companion to the Bible, by Dr. Todd Bolen and his team. As with the other volumes in this set…

02/04/2024

Our preaching theme for the month of February is "The Israel of God" (Gal. 6:16). Our lesson this morning: "A History of Israel." All are invited. Lessons are live streamed at https://hancevillechurchofchrist.com/

04/14/2023

The best evidence points to Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher as marking the location of Jesus' entombment and resurrection. Entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. Photo ©Leon Mauldin. The Roman Emperor Hadrian (r. 117-138 AD) built a temple devoted to Jupiter over the site venerated as Jesus' tomb. Later Constantine (r. 306-337 AD) ordered Hadrian's temple to be destroyed and ordered that a church be built over Jesus' tomb....

The best evidence points to Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher as marking the location of Jesus’ entombment and resurrection. Entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerus…

04/12/2023

After the Apostle Paul left the younger evangelist Titus at Crete, he wrote, “For this reason I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking, and appoint elders in every city as I commanded you” (Titus 1:5). There were many cities (Greek polis) on the island of Crete, as can be seen from this map by bibleatlas.org: …...

http://leonmauldin.blog/2023/04/12/horns-of-consecration-at-knossos-crete/

After the Apostle Paul left the younger evangelist Titus at Crete, he wrote, “For this reason I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking, and appoint elders in ev…

04/11/2023

2 Kings 23 records the zealous reforms of good king Josiah (r. 640-609 BC), who had been the object of prophecy some 300 years earlier (1 Kings 13). Josiah destroyed/defiled the sites and objects of idolatry both in Jerusalem as well as throughout the land of Israel. This included the desecration of the site Solomon had constructed for the worship of foreign gods (which had resulted from the influence of the pagan wives he accumulated, cf....

2 Kings 23 records the zealous reforms of good king Josiah (r. 640-609 BC), who had been the object of prophecy some 300 years earlier (1 Kings 13). Josiah destroyed/defiled the sites and objects o…

02/25/2023

Our last couple of posts have dealt with Pharaoh Tirhakah, the Cush*te (Ethiopian) king of Egypt's 25th dynasty, and mentioned by name in 2 Kings 19:9, in correction with Judah's good King Hezekiah, and the Assyrian King Sennacherib. We noted, "In some translations (i.e., NKJV) Tirhakah is said to be king of Ethiopia. “Ethiopia” here refers to southern Egypt, and is rendered ...

Our last couple of posts have dealt with Pharaoh Tirhakah, the Cush*te (Ethiopian) king of Egypt’s 25th dynasty, and mentioned by name in 2 Kings 19:9, in correction with Judah’s good K…

02/18/2023

In our present post we further consider Tirhakah, the Cush*te (Ethiopian) Pharaoh mentioned in 2 Kings 19:9: "Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the Cush*te king of Egypt, was marching out to fight against him. It is fascinating (and illuminating) when there are other historical records, inscriptions, and artifacts which coincide with biblical persons and events. The battle between the Assyrians and Egyptians mentioned in our text above was of no great or decisive consequence....

In our present post we further consider Tirhakah, the Cush*te (Ethiopian) Pharaoh mentioned in 2 Kings 19:9: “Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the Cush*te king of Egypt, was m…

02/17/2023

Tirhakah (Taharqa/Taharka) is mentioned in the context of the mighty Assyrian King Sennacherib's attempt to take Judah's capitol city of Jerusalem, 701 BC, during good King Hezekiah's reign. The biblical text reads, "Now the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, 'Behold, he has set out to fight against you.' So he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying," (2 Kings 19:9; cf....

Tirhakah (Taharqa/Taharka) is mentioned in the context of the mighty Assyrian King Sennacherib’s attempt to take Judah’s capitol city of Jerusalem, 701 BC, during good King Hezekiah& #82…