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Guest bloggers Frank and Vivian Scott share their trip to the Holy Land Experience in Orlando Florida.

My wife, Vivian, and I have always wanted to go to the Holy Land, but she won’t sail on a ship and I won’t fly.  How could we get there?

 
Changing Times 03/13/2011
 
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It's been hard to get back to this blog, even though I have felt God prodding me to do so.  2011 has come in with a sense that all things are different.  Have you felt it?  It's been as if we have entered into a new chapter in time - a harder time.  Winter has been long, causing me to be reflective on the changing of seasons personally as well as globally.

 
 
It's all about Jesus Sometimes it’s hard for people to understand what we are trying to do with A Light in the World Museum. We are not a church and don’t want to become one. We are not trying to promote denominational doctrine(s). We don’t want to be considered just as an amusement and entertainment destination.  Although, we will have fellowship, we will promote scripture as written, and we hope everyone who walks through the museum will be amused and entertained; as well as taught, enlightened, and drawn to God.
 
 
We’re actively looking for land to build A Light in the World Museum. Recently, I looked at a 24 acre parcel of land with interstate 81 frontage that would be almost perfect for the museum. There were a couple drawbacks with this property, but for the most part the pluses outweighed the negatives. Unfortunately, after I looked at it the price was raised significantly making it out of the museum’s ability at this time.  I know that if this is the land that God has for the Museum he will work out the details.
 
 
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We are often skeptical when something is free. We think that there has to be a catch. There’s got to be something hidden. That is the reason some find it difficult to understand God’s gift of salvation. God’s love isn’t based on us or what we do; in fact, he loves us in spite of ourselves.

 
 
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Last year we took a trip out to The Creation Museum because of our own interest and to do a little research for A Light in the World Museum. The Creation Museum is located in Petersburg, Kentucky just outside of Cincinnati Ohio.  Per their website it is a “state-of-the-art 70,000 square foot museum [that] brings the pages of the Bible to life, casting its characters and animals in dynamic form and placing them in familiar settings.”

 
 
When my father passed away I was shocked. To me he was a spiritual giant, a great man of faith. I didn't think he could be touched by an early death. For weeks I felt as though I was in a fog or living a nightmare. It seemed unreal. The best description would be to say that I felt like the rapture had taken place and I was left behind. I couldn't make sense of it and felt completely out of sorts.
 
 
A Light In The World Museum was my father's vision many years ago. I remember him telling me about his idea one day after we had visited a historical wax figure museum. Back then it was exciting when the mannequin's chest moved as if they breathed. My Dad told me he thought that a biblical museum could tell about Jesus in a fresh new experience for unbelievers as well as believers.  He thought it would be an instrument that God would use to draw people to him.