June 30, 2025 • 12 mins
From the front seat of my car at 5:20 AM, I share some bittersweet news about my parking lot buddy Tim heading off to Alaska. We've had this unspoken competition about who arrives first each morning, and strangely enough, I'll miss seeing his headlights pull up in the dark.
The weekend brought precious time with my grandson - that happy, smart little boy who never seems to throw fits (at least not at Grandma and Grandpa's house). But what really caught my attention this week was a fascinating archaeological discovery about Jesus's first miracle. A historian believes he's found compelling evidence for the true location where Jesus turned water into wine - complete with ancient Christian tunnels marked with crosses, a veneration cave complex used by pilgrims for centuries, and even space for exactly six stone jars as mentioned in Scripture. The physical connection to biblical history is absolutely mind-blowing.
I've been watching the fifth season of The Chosen, and Jonathan Roumie's portrayal of Jesus continues to move me deeply. I find myself feeling strangely sympathetic toward Judas, watching his fundamental misunderstanding of Jesus's mission unfold. After attending Marjorie Taylor Greene's recent talk, her message about getting involved locally resonated strongly. Too many of us whisper "I don't want to get involved" when faced with challenging issues in our communities. Whether it's through social media or showing up at local meetings, we all have opportunities to stand for what we believe. What's your favorite miracle that Jesus performed in the Bible? I'd love to hear your thoughts.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, hello, good morning.
Well, I have some sad news kindof not really.
In case you're new listenershere, some information here.
I record my little episodes inmy car when I pull up to work in
the morning.
So I work from 6 to 2.30 and Iusually get to the parking lot
(00:23):
about 5.20.
Work from 6 to 2 30 and Iusually get to the parking lot
about 5 20 and I just hit recordon my cell phone.
After I talk into it for 10minutes, I straight upload it to
my podcast platform.
There is no fluff and frillhere here.
Uh, this I'm a rough cut gymwith this, up with these with
(00:43):
this podcast.
But anyway, so I used to.
Just I would get here at 5 20 inthe morning and then sometimes
a co-worker of mine would arriveas well.
Sometimes he would beat me here.
By the way, I found it foundout his name, his name is Tim uh
(01:04):
, and then I, it used to justget under my skin so much that
he would beat me to work.
I don't know why.
Competitiveness, I guess, is inmy nature.
Well, I found you know it's.
It became a running joke hereon the podcast I after a while
it didn't really bother me thathe got here, and then, of course
, I made it to where I got herefirst.
(01:26):
I know long story.
He is leaving and he's leaving.
He found another job, he'sgoing to Alaska.
So I will not see him here nextto me pull up in the morning
anymore.
I'm sad, you know, especiallywhen it was still dark outside.
I always felt safe when heactually was here and showed up
(01:47):
with me at the same time.
But anyway, moving on, we had agreat weekend.
This weekend seemed kind oflong, it was just a regular
weekend though, but we had theGrand Cam on Saturday.
He is such a happy boy, mygoodness.
Oh, I just love him so much.
(02:08):
He's so smart, happy, positive.
I just love him.
Happy, positive.
I just love him.
He doesn't throw fits.
At least I've not seen himthrow any fits.
Um, when?
If he doesn't get his way, ofcourse, it always gets his way
at our house.
But uh, all right, we need tomove on to some topics today.
What am I talking about today?
I think I put something out onX.
(02:28):
Let's go over here.
Did you guys hear I guessyou've heard about this Idaho
thing who starts a fire to lurefirefighters in to?
I mean not lure them in.
I mean, that's whatfirefighters do?
They go put out fires.
Who does this?
And then shoots them?
Who shoots firefighters?
Oh my gosh, just demented.
(02:49):
Oh, but this story here hasnothing to do with the
firefighters.
See, rough cut Archaeologistuncovers persuasive evidence of
true location where Jesus turnedwater into wine.
You know the story.
He goes to a wedding and hismother asks him to turn some
(03:10):
water into wine.
He said, mother, it's not mytime, I'm not ready, but he does
it anyway.
He said, mother, it's not mytime, I'm not ready, but he does
it anyway, because, you know,at a wedding you have to have
wine and these people, I guess,ran out.
People were having a good timeat this wedding, apparently All
(03:31):
right.
So a historian believes he'sfound the location of Jesus
Christ's first miracle and hasnewfound evidence to back it up.
Well, we'll see.
Scripture gives limited detailsabout jesus first miracle.
Does it really give limiteddetails?
Which is said to have takenplace in cana, cana, cana.
The gospel of john states thatjesus turned water into wine
during a wedding.
In the village nearby stood sixstone water jars, the kind kind
(03:54):
used by the Jews for ceremonialwashing, each holding from 20
to 30 gallons.
That's a lot of wine.
The gospel states.
Jesus said to the servants fillthe jars with water.
So they filled them to the brim.
The passage continues.
Then he told them now draw someout and take it to the master
of the banquet.
(04:15):
Then he told them now draw someout and take it to the master
of the banquet.
They did so and the master ofthe banquet tasted the water
that had been turned into wine.
Well, let's get down to wherewe think where this happened.
But historian Tom McCulloughsays that Cana was actually
located five miles north ofKaffir Kana I'm sure I'm not
(04:35):
pronouncing these namescorrectly.
The site, called Kirbit Kana,was a Jewish village from 323 BC
to 324 AD.
Mccullough taught religion andhistory at Center College Until
his retirement in 2017, he toldPenn News that Kerbic kind of
(04:56):
presents the most compellingevidence so far.
No other village has theensemble of evidence that makes
such a persuasive case Tunnelsused by Christians, marked with
various crosses with referencesto Christ, which date back to
(05:19):
over 1,500 years.
That's fascinating.
I did not know that.
That is wild, that there'stunnels used by Christians.
Wow uncovered a large Christianveneration cave complex that was
(05:40):
used by Christian pilgrims whocame to venerate the water to
wine miracle.
Huh.
This complex was used beginningin the late 5th or early 6th
century and continued to be usedby pilgrims into the 12th
century Crusader period.
Wow, to be used by pilgrimsinto the 12th century crusader
period.
Wow.
During the excavation,mccullough also uncovered an
(06:01):
altar and a shelf with a stonevessel.
He noted that there was spacefor five additional jars,
consistent with the biblicalaccount of six stone jars.
Well, I mean, that reallydoesn't mean anything.
I'm sure a lot of people hadthese jars in their house, in
these homes.
Right, he noted that there wasspace for five additional jars.
(06:22):
We already said that.
On the walls at the of thecomplex, his team excavators
also uncovered references to Ican't pronounce this a carry
less you, a coin Greek phrasemeaning Lord Jesus.
Wow, wow.
The pilgrim text we have fromthis period that describe what
(06:44):
pilgrims did and saw when theycame to Cana of Galilee match
every very closely that we haveexposed as okay.
You can go finish reading thatif you would like.
That's the only thing I haveout on my x file this morning.
Uh, I really don't haveanything else for you this
morning except that I amwatching the fifth season of the
(07:05):
chosen.
That guy what's his name?
Jonathan roomie, I think is hisname who plays jesus in the
chosen, is just freakingfantastic.
Oh, I love him.
It's gonna be curious to seehow, how the crucifixion, uh,
(07:26):
I'm not looking forward to thatpart of it.
But I is it wrong for me to feelfor Judas?
Oh man, I just wanted to knockhim on his head and say Judas,
why don't you understand aboutthis?
He still thinks that you know,I'm watching this, the show.
He thinks that Jesus is likeonly the physical king that's
(07:49):
going to overthrow Caesar, uh,in Rome, here on earth.
And it's not, obviously, we allknow that.
But why I feel bad?
I feel for Judas.
Bless his heart.
Well, it can't bless his heartanymore.
But oh, judas, come on.
I just, oh it just.
My heart aches because we allknow what's coming.
(08:12):
Uh, is it wrong for me to feelbad for Judas?
I don't know.
I know people don't like himbecause he's the one that
betrayed Jesus.
But it was supposed to happen,correct?
I mean, this was all prophesied.
Am I using that correctly?
It was at all points in the OldTestament right that this all
(08:37):
was supposed to play out the wayit was supposed to play out?
I don't know.
I am not a biblical scholar,but I am a believer and follower
of jesus christ.
I love him so much and, um,yeah, and I thank him for
everything that he has done andnot done for me, and I also I've
got to remember.
Thank you, lord, for unansweredprayers.
(09:00):
Yes, okay, all right, that'sall I've got for you.
Oh, we need the question of theday.
Hold on, I forgot to tell youthe most.
One of the other parts of myweekend is I got to go see
marjorie taylor green speak inalabama.
Some kind of fundraiser, Iguess it was for moms, for
liberty, I'm not sure.
Uh, dale strong ourrepresentative was, he was also
(09:24):
here.
But uh, marjorie taylor green,she gave a good talk.
It was good.
She gave a good talk.
She talked about how our youngpeople.
She really can't blame theyoung people for looking to
these radical left you you knowDemocrats now, these Democrat
socialists, because all of theyears from Obama and Biden and
everybody in Washington just notreally doing anything, pretty
(09:47):
much destroying the Americandream.
So it's no one.
She can't really blame theyoung people for looking when
these people come along and saywe're going to give you all
kinds of stuff for free and soit sounds good, right.
She also talked about peoplegetting involved her own
experience when she first ranfor congress.
You know, I didn't know thatshe ran for congress.
(10:07):
It was only five years ago, in2020.
I did not know that, but beforethat she was involved in her
local area things and she foundout that this they were going to
have drag queen story hour thiswas 2017, 2018 in her, in her
district, in her school library,and she went to the school and
(10:28):
the city council.
She said what is going on?
Why is this happening?
And they kind of whispered towell, we don't really want to
get involved and this.
So she said, all right.
So she went to the church thatwas closest to the school, tried
to talk to the moms and parentsthere, who also had a private
school, and she said are we notgoing to get upset and mad about
(10:49):
this?
What are we going to do?
Well, we don't really want toget involved.
She went to another church withtheir private school and
parents, hopefully hoping to getthem all riled up and involved
to get this drag queen storyhour out and nobody's like
nobody wanted to get involved.
We, all we, we don't want toget involved.
We don't want to.
You know, get put ourselves outthere like that.
(11:11):
And so we are here where we aretoday because no one wants to
get involved.
Get involved, Even if it's justputting stuff out on social
media, making people aware.
If you have a large followingon social media, start talking
about it.
Start going to your locallibraries and see what's in the
(11:33):
library and then go tell someonethat this is not appropriate.
I don't know.
All right, I'm sorry.
Question of the library.
And then go tell someone thatthis is not appropriate.
I don't know.
All right, I'm sorry.
Question of the day Promise.
Okay, here is the question ofthe day.
What is your favorite miraclethat Jesus did in the Bible?
That's the question.
All right, gotta go Love y'all.
(11:55):
Thanks for listening.
Bye.
Well, hello, good morning.
Well, I have some sad news kindof not really.
In case you're new listenershere, some information here.
I record my little episodes inmy car when I pull up to work in
the morning.
So I work from 6 to 2.30 and Iusually get to the parking lot
(00:23):
about 5.20.
Work from 6 to 2 30 and Iusually get to the parking lot
about 5 20 and I just hit recordon my cell phone.
After I talk into it for 10minutes, I straight upload it to
my podcast platform.
There is no fluff and frillhere here.
Uh, this I'm a rough cut gymwith this, up with these with
(00:43):
this podcast.
But anyway, so I used to.
Just I would get here at 5 20 inthe morning and then sometimes
a co-worker of mine would arriveas well.
Sometimes he would beat me here.
By the way, I found it foundout his name, his name is Tim uh
(01:04):
, and then I, it used to justget under my skin so much that
he would beat me to work.
I don't know why.
Competitiveness, I guess, is inmy nature.
Well, I found you know it's.
It became a running joke hereon the podcast I after a while
it didn't really bother me thathe got here, and then, of course
, I made it to where I got herefirst.
(01:26):
I know long story.
He is leaving and he's leaving.
He found another job, he'sgoing to Alaska.
So I will not see him here nextto me pull up in the morning
anymore.
I'm sad, you know, especiallywhen it was still dark outside.
I always felt safe when heactually was here and showed up
(01:47):
with me at the same time.
But anyway, moving on, we had agreat weekend.
This weekend seemed kind oflong, it was just a regular
weekend though, but we had theGrand Cam on Saturday.
He is such a happy boy, mygoodness.
Oh, I just love him so much.
(02:08):
He's so smart, happy, positive.
I just love him.
Happy, positive.
I just love him.
He doesn't throw fits.
At least I've not seen himthrow any fits.
Um, when?
If he doesn't get his way, ofcourse, it always gets his way
at our house.
But uh, all right, we need tomove on to some topics today.
What am I talking about today?
I think I put something out onX.
(02:28):
Let's go over here.
Did you guys hear I guessyou've heard about this Idaho
thing who starts a fire to lurefirefighters in to?
I mean not lure them in.
I mean, that's whatfirefighters do?
They go put out fires.
Who does this?
And then shoots them?
Who shoots firefighters?
Oh my gosh, just demented.
(02:49):
Oh, but this story here hasnothing to do with the
firefighters.
See, rough cut Archaeologistuncovers persuasive evidence of
true location where Jesus turnedwater into wine.
You know the story.
He goes to a wedding and hismother asks him to turn some
(03:10):
water into wine.
He said, mother, it's not mytime, I'm not ready, but he does
it anyway.
He said, mother, it's not mytime, I'm not ready, but he does
it anyway, because, you know,at a wedding you have to have
wine and these people, I guess,ran out.
People were having a good timeat this wedding, apparently All
(03:31):
right.
So a historian believes he'sfound the location of Jesus
Christ's first miracle and hasnewfound evidence to back it up.
Well, we'll see.
Scripture gives limited detailsabout jesus first miracle.
Does it really give limiteddetails?
Which is said to have takenplace in cana, cana, cana.
The gospel of john states thatjesus turned water into wine
during a wedding.
In the village nearby stood sixstone water jars, the kind kind
(03:54):
used by the Jews for ceremonialwashing, each holding from 20
to 30 gallons.
That's a lot of wine.
The gospel states.
Jesus said to the servants fillthe jars with water.
So they filled them to the brim.
The passage continues.
Then he told them now draw someout and take it to the master
of the banquet.
(04:15):
Then he told them now draw someout and take it to the master
of the banquet.
They did so and the master ofthe banquet tasted the water
that had been turned into wine.
Well, let's get down to wherewe think where this happened.
But historian Tom McCulloughsays that Cana was actually
located five miles north ofKaffir Kana I'm sure I'm not
(04:35):
pronouncing these namescorrectly.
The site, called Kirbit Kana,was a Jewish village from 323 BC
to 324 AD.
Mccullough taught religion andhistory at Center College Until
his retirement in 2017, he toldPenn News that Kerbic kind of
(04:56):
presents the most compellingevidence so far.
No other village has theensemble of evidence that makes
such a persuasive case Tunnelsused by Christians, marked with
various crosses with referencesto Christ, which date back to
(05:19):
over 1,500 years.
That's fascinating.
I did not know that.
That is wild, that there'stunnels used by Christians.
Wow uncovered a large Christianveneration cave complex that was
(05:40):
used by Christian pilgrims whocame to venerate the water to
wine miracle.
Huh.
This complex was used beginningin the late 5th or early 6th
century and continued to be usedby pilgrims into the 12th
century Crusader period.
Wow, to be used by pilgrimsinto the 12th century crusader
period.
Wow.
During the excavation,mccullough also uncovered an
(06:01):
altar and a shelf with a stonevessel.
He noted that there was spacefor five additional jars,
consistent with the biblicalaccount of six stone jars.
Well, I mean, that reallydoesn't mean anything.
I'm sure a lot of people hadthese jars in their house, in
these homes.
Right, he noted that there wasspace for five additional jars.
(06:22):
We already said that.
On the walls at the of thecomplex, his team excavators
also uncovered references to Ican't pronounce this a carry
less you, a coin Greek phrasemeaning Lord Jesus.
Wow, wow.
The pilgrim text we have fromthis period that describe what
(06:44):
pilgrims did and saw when theycame to Cana of Galilee match
every very closely that we haveexposed as okay.
You can go finish reading thatif you would like.
That's the only thing I haveout on my x file this morning.
Uh, I really don't haveanything else for you this
morning except that I amwatching the fifth season of the
(07:05):
chosen.
That guy what's his name?
Jonathan roomie, I think is hisname who plays jesus in the
chosen, is just freakingfantastic.
Oh, I love him.
It's gonna be curious to seehow, how the crucifixion, uh,
(07:26):
I'm not looking forward to thatpart of it.
But I is it wrong for me to feelfor Judas?
Oh man, I just wanted to knockhim on his head and say Judas,
why don't you understand aboutthis?
He still thinks that you know,I'm watching this, the show.
He thinks that Jesus is likeonly the physical king that's
(07:49):
going to overthrow Caesar, uh,in Rome, here on earth.
And it's not, obviously, we allknow that.
But why I feel bad?
I feel for Judas.
Bless his heart.
Well, it can't bless his heartanymore.
But oh, judas, come on.
I just, oh it just.
My heart aches because we allknow what's coming.
(08:12):
Uh, is it wrong for me to feelbad for Judas?
I don't know.
I know people don't like himbecause he's the one that
betrayed Jesus.
But it was supposed to happen,correct?
I mean, this was all prophesied.
Am I using that correctly?
It was at all points in the OldTestament right that this all
(08:37):
was supposed to play out the wayit was supposed to play out?
I don't know.
I am not a biblical scholar,but I am a believer and follower
of jesus christ.
I love him so much and, um,yeah, and I thank him for
everything that he has done andnot done for me, and I also I've
got to remember.
Thank you, lord, for unansweredprayers.
(09:00):
Yes, okay, all right, that'sall I've got for you.
Oh, we need the question of theday.
Hold on, I forgot to tell youthe most.
One of the other parts of myweekend is I got to go see
marjorie taylor green speak inalabama.
Some kind of fundraiser, Iguess it was for moms, for
liberty, I'm not sure.
Uh, dale strong ourrepresentative was, he was also
(09:24):
here.
But uh, marjorie taylor green,she gave a good talk.
It was good.
She gave a good talk.
She talked about how our youngpeople.
She really can't blame theyoung people for looking to
these radical left you you knowDemocrats now, these Democrat
socialists, because all of theyears from Obama and Biden and
everybody in Washington just notreally doing anything, pretty
(09:47):
much destroying the Americandream.
So it's no one.
She can't really blame theyoung people for looking when
these people come along and saywe're going to give you all
kinds of stuff for free and soit sounds good, right.
She also talked about peoplegetting involved her own
experience when she first ranfor congress.
You know, I didn't know thatshe ran for congress.
(10:07):
It was only five years ago, in2020.
I did not know that, but beforethat she was involved in her
local area things and she foundout that this they were going to
have drag queen story hour thiswas 2017, 2018 in her, in her
district, in her school library,and she went to the school and
(10:28):
the city council.
She said what is going on?
Why is this happening?
And they kind of whispered towell, we don't really want to
get involved and this.
So she said, all right.
So she went to the church thatwas closest to the school, tried
to talk to the moms and parentsthere, who also had a private
school, and she said are we notgoing to get upset and mad about
(10:49):
this?
What are we going to do?
Well, we don't really want toget involved.
She went to another church withtheir private school and
parents, hopefully hoping to getthem all riled up and involved
to get this drag queen storyhour out and nobody's like
nobody wanted to get involved.
We, all we, we don't want toget involved.
We don't want to.
You know, get put ourselves outthere like that.
(11:11):
And so we are here where we aretoday because no one wants to
get involved.
Get involved, Even if it's justputting stuff out on social
media, making people aware.
If you have a large followingon social media, start talking
about it.
Start going to your locallibraries and see what's in the
(11:33):
library and then go tell someonethat this is not appropriate.
I don't know.
All right, I'm sorry.
Question of the library.
And then go tell someone thatthis is not appropriate.
I don't know.
All right, I'm sorry.
Question of the day Promise.
Okay, here is the question ofthe day.
What is your favorite miraclethat Jesus did in the Bible?
That's the question.
All right, gotta go Love y'all.
(11:55):
Thanks for listening.
Bye.
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