Those who know me well know that I’m not really a “worship” guy. What I mean by that is I’m not the type of person that usually connects emotionally with God through singing worship songs. Third Format definitely gets close for me, but I’m just not wired that way. I’ve met many people who are. One of the days that we were in Egypt we visited an Oasis in the middle of the Sahara Desert. It was a five hour…

One of the coolest experiences of our visit to Egypt was seeing the Cave Church in Cairo. It is the largest Christian church in the Middle East. To get to it, we went through what is known as Garbage City. In Cairo, there is a lot of trash all around the streets. One of the reasons is that Muslims don’t usually touch trash as it makes them unclean. As a result, it is the Egyptian Christians that take care of…

One of the things that was amazing to me about being in Egypt is how much of their history reinforces and further explains things that I’ve read about in the Bible for years. There were two areas where this really stood out to me. First, Egyptian culture in general. One of the nights we were there we took a boat trip around on the Nile River. We had a local Muslim friend with us and he was telling us about…