After a tour to the Holy Land, it’s easy to forget the many lessons you’ve learned and the sites you’ve seen. The Holy Land can soon seem a distant land again. But it doesn’t have to.
One of my recommendations for making your holy land tour stay with you for years includes getting some great resources that will last you a lifetime.
In this post, I’ve highlighted the best of what I suggest you pick up after your Holy Land tour. I include videos, pictures, devotionals, and atlases.
You have pictures of you in the Holy Land. You can’t buy those. But you’ve probably noticed that your own shots of biblical sites are, well, less than ideal. Not only that, you didn’t visit every site.
If a picture paints a thousand words, then thousands of high-resolution pictures are even better. I use the Pictorial Library of Bible Lands every week on my blog, and I have used them for years in my teaching and personal Bible study. I have found nothing better or as exhaustive.
The best deal is the Israel Collection—which I use. But you could get one volume at a time.
Take a look at the Pictorial Library of Bible Lands and see why this photo collection is so unique, so valuable, and so useful.
The most basic resource for studying Bible lands is a good Bible atlas. It’s a great way to look up sites while you’re reading the Bible.
Good atlases provide more than maps; they teach the importance of geography as it relates to history, archaeology, topography, and climate.
Several outstanding atlases are available today. Here are two that I use and recommend:
The greatest benefit of a Holy Land Tour is its contribution to your spiritual life. It clarifies God’s Word, and the Lord uses Scripture to change lives. Several devotional books make the explicit connection between the Bible lands and your life. Not surprisingly, a couple of my recommendations are my own devotional volumes:
If you’d like to combine seeing the land of Israel with great preaching by Chuck Swindoll, helpful site information (by me), and creative portrayals of biblical characters by Reg Grant, I know you’ll enjoy the Experience the Land and the Book DVDs.
Here’s a video preview:
Tell me what you think: What other resources have you found helpful in studying Bible lands? To leave a comment, just click here.