Thunder in the Holy Land
To those who encountered him, the teachings of Jesus landed like a thunderstorm — so compelling that the reverberations are still felt today. This study travels through the Holy Land to trace those teachings back to the ground where they were first spoken.
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If the crowds had gone quiet on the road into Jerusalem, Jesus said the stones would cry out — and this study listens for that voice. Filmed from Cairo to Caesarea and Jerusalem, Pastor Tom gathers the extra-biblical witnesses that still speak for Scripture's story, then turns to the prophecies Jesus Himself used as an anchor for faith. Come weigh the evidence and decide whether the Word can still be trusted as truth.
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Are we alone in the universe? This study answers from a thin stretch of Holy Land ground where heaven kept showing up in person. From Mount Zion and Nazareth to Bethlehem's fields, the wilderness, and Gethsemane, Pastor Tom traces the angel encounters that surrounded Jesus' life — and the darker battle He fought with a fallen messenger. Come see why we are not alone, and why surrender on holy ground still invites heaven's help.
0327m
If God is love, why does He allow so much pain? Standing in the story Jesus told of wheat and tares, this study traces the conflict back to heaven — to a covering cherub who chose pride — and then to Eden, where that rebellion reached our world. Pastor Tom follows the controversy all the way to the cross, where two kingdoms stood fully revealed. Come wrestle with the question honestly, and hear why God is still waiting.
0430m
When Jesus said He and the Father are one, He unsettled a people who recited daily that the Lord is one. This study walks that tension through the Holy Land — from the Shema to the burning bush and Bethlehem's Emmanuel promise — and asks what one really means. Pastor Tom invites us to see Father, Son, and Spirit not as a riddle to solve, but as a oneness we are welcomed into.
0527m
A peasant child born in a Bethlehem grotto grew up in Nazareth and, in Jerusalem, claimed to be the Son of God. This study lingers at the pool of Bethesda, where a Sabbath healing and a stunning title polarized the city, then follows Jesus' own proofs — His works, and the Old Testament prophecies that named Him in advance. Come decide, with the Bible open, whether He is truly Emmanuel: God with us.
0630m
Salvation can feel like a suitcase too large to carry — until Pastor Tom puts a handle on it: saying yes to the Lord with all your known choices. From Gordon's Calvary, where a dying thief found mercy, to the temple courts and a rich young ruler's hard decision, this study follows Jesus making salvation simple enough for a child and costly enough to change a life. Come hear the invitation, and consider what your yes would look like.
0730m
Under cover of night, Nicodemus slipped out of the city, down into the Kidron, and up the Mount of Olives to meet a teacher who would not leave his categories intact. There Jesus opened the heart of His ministry: God so loved that He gave. This study asks what love actually is — not a feeling, but a principle of giving what is needed most — and invites us to let that love become the way we live.
0829m
Along the Jordan, where John was baptizing for repentance, a thirty-year-old from Galilee walked into the water as His first official act of ministry. This study asks why the sinless Lamb would take that step — and what it still means for anyone who wants to know God rather than merely know about Him. Repentance, as Jesus lived it, is a gift that changes how we feel about things, and then how we live.
0932m
Standing near the Mount of Beatitudes, this study carries the gift of repentance out of the Jordan and into ordinary life — what we watch, how we dress, the music we love, the addictions that still tug. Once you say yes to Jesus, old habits and the world's current start pushing back. The claim is simple and unsettling: Christ has given everything needed to obey, and He is still offering a new heart to anyone who will ask.
1030m
Jesus's call to be perfect still startles people — until you stand where He first blessed a wedding, in the little village of Cana, and remember what God designed in Eden. Marriage, family, and a life with the Creator first were never afterthoughts; they were the original gift. This study invites us back to that design, not as a scold, but as the path to the joy and peace God still longs to restore.
1130m
On a desert mountain whose exact coordinates are still debated, God chose a podium and a people heard His voice. This study walks that day when love thundered the Ten Commandments — and asks why Jesus said He came to fulfill the law, not destroy it. From Sinai to Calvary, the claim is that the moral law is love written out, still binding, still for our good, still the way we abide in Him.
1229m
From the Mount of Olives — a Sabbath day's walk from Jerusalem — this study takes up Jesus's claim to be Lord of the Sabbath. That one-seventh in time was not invented for the Jews; it was given to Adam and Eve in a perfect garden, a gift of the Creator's presence. The invitation is personal: if He is Lord of your life, will you spend that holy block of time with the One who is waiting?
1329m
Inside the synagogue at Capernaum, Jesus healed a withered hand on the Sabbath — and the leaders began plotting His death. This study starts with that collision and asks a harder question for our own day: if Jesus is Lord of the seventh day, who moved the mark of worship to another? The claim is that the Sabbath remains God's sign of creation and new life, and that He still wants that one-seventh with you.
1432m
Movies and myth have piled fiction onto the Antichrist, but this study returns to the source Jesus trusted: Daniel. Walking through the night vision of chapter 7 — four beasts, then a little horn that speaks great things — Pastor Tom lays prophecy beside history and invites you to test the marks for yourself. The claim is searching: God has given enough detail that no one who studies need be left in doubt about the power that would seek worship in His place.
1530m
Every major faith was sparked by a teacher who died. Only one founder is said to have walked out of the grave — and without that claim, Christianity itself collapses. From the Garden Tomb just outside Jerusalem's old walls, Pastor Tom walks through the crucifixion record, the doubts that still swirl, and the witnesses who would not recant. The empty tomb, he argues, is more than history: it is God's proof that Jesus is the resurrection and the life.
1629m
When someone we love dies, the ache is personal — and the question of what happens next is where Jesus' teaching still startles most of the religious world. At Lazarus' tomb in Bethany, four days after the burial, Pastor Tom follows John 11 as Jesus calls death "sleep" and then proves He is the resurrection. Scripture's claim is restful and radical: the dead know nothing until He calls them, and the serpent's old promise that we will not die is still dead wrong.
1729m
Followers of Jesus still land on opposite sides of hell — endless torment, or a fire that finally goes out. From graves on the Mount of Olives and the Valley of Hinnom below Jerusalem's Dung Gate, Pastor Tom lets Scripture interpret itself, including the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. The claim is as searching as it is kind: hell is real, God takes no pleasure in anyone perishing, and those who refuse His gift do not live on in pain — they are consumed.
1829m
At Qumran on the Dead Sea's northwest shore, copies of Daniel still unsettle the critics. This study walks the Bible's longest time prophecy — Daniel 8 and 9 — from the decree to restore Jerusalem to the year the Messiah would be anointed, and to the hour Jesus said His time was at hand. The same timeline that dated Christ's baptism and cross, Pastor Tom argues, also opens the year of heaven's judgment — and a God who knows the end from the beginning can be trusted with yours.
1929m
Why does God convene a judgment at all? This study answers in the desert at Timnah, beside a replica of the wilderness tabernacle — the living illustration God used so He could dwell among His people. Pastor Tom walks the courtyard and the holy places, tracing every piece of furniture to Jesus, the Lamb and High Priest. The Day of Atonement, he argues, was never only an ancient ritual: it foreshadows the heavenly judgment already under way, and invites us to keep saying yes while there is still time.
2031m
When God speaks a word before it happens, a life has to decide whether to listen. This study traces that gift from Noah and Moses to Daniel and John, then lays out the tests Jesus gave for telling a true messenger from a false one. From Ellen White's home in Battle Creek, Pastor Tom argues that the God who sent a prophet at every great fulfillment still speaks in the last days — not to replace Scripture, but to lead people back to it, and into knowing Him.
2129m
Would Jesus choose just one church? Filmed among the shepherds of Israel, this study takes that thunderstorm of a question to His own words in John 10 and the remnant marks of Revelation. Jesus left identifying signs for the people who hear His voice, do what He asks, and carry His gospel to the world. Come see the template He gave — and decide whether you will step into that one fold.
2229m
Just east of Jerusalem, in the olive grove of Gethsemane, Jesus faced a baptism no river could hold. This study walks the Kidron Valley to the oil press where He asked for the cup to pass — then chose His Father's will instead. True baptism, He taught, is not a ceremony that guarantees a new life, but a daily dying to self so that Christ can live in you. Come stand under those trees and ask whether you will drink that cup with Him.
2330m
God's math has never added up on paper — three hundred soldiers, five loaves, a widow's two mites — and yet it keeps winning. From the Dead Sea's bitter waters to the temple courts where Jesus watched a woman give her whole livelihood, this study opens the principle of tithe and offering: heaven works by giving away and gaining more. Malachi still invites us to prove Him. Will you remain a Dead Sea, or return what He asked and watch the windows of heaven open?
2428m
Jesus once chided people who could read a red sky but not the signs of the times. This study sets Matthew 24 beside the two beasts of Revelation 13 — a persecuting power already known from Daniel, and a lamb-like nation rising from sparsely populated land. The claim is startling: America is in the prophecy, and the sky is already red. Come discern those signs with us, and decide whether you will remain faithful.
2529m
On trial before the Sanhedrin, staring into apparent defeat, Jesus promised a comeback: the Son of Man seated at the right hand of power and coming on the clouds. Filmed from the Mount of Olives — where a literal Jesus ascended and where Scripture says He will return — this study traces His second coming, the thousand years, and the final restoration of the earth. It will be visible, audible, and glorious. Come see why that blessed hope still changes how people live.
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Who will inherit Israel? Standing in the land promised to Abraham, this study lets Jesus and the prophets answer — and it is not the present-day nation many expect. The father of the faithful was a Chaldean who obeyed, and the city he looked for is still coming: a new earth for everyone who belongs to Christ. Come see the birthright offered to every nation, and decide whether you will walk in that same friendship.