Along the Road
Jesus often linked lesson and landscape. When we accept his invitation to walk along the road with him, we find ourselves visiting places we have been before as Bible readers. This is no accident. Jesus frequently takes us to places we have been before so that he can build a new lesson on an earlier experience we have had at a place. And that raises some new and interesting questions. Why did Jesus leave Nazareth and take us back Capernaum? Why did Jesus have us revisit the Jordan River east of Jericho for his baptism? Why did Jesus take us back to the region of Caesarea Philippi to have a conversation about his identity? This book considers twenty such moments of geographic deja vu, exploring how Jesus used geography to tell God’s story.