Aaron Harcourt

Aaron Harcourt

Sunday, December 09, 2007

Use your imagination...

It's hard to desribe the feeling you get when you stand in a place where someone who changed the world once stood. A place where the gospel was once preached and spread like wild fire into Europe. It's one of unbelief, awe and imagination. This is how I felt as I stood at the Acropolis and Mars Hill in Athens. A place that a radical man for Christ stood and proclaimed the good news of salvation and forgiveness. This is how I felt in Corinth, a city once rich and famous, possessed by the gods of immorality and idolatry. This is how I felt in Ancient Ephesus, full of beauty and the newest advances in human achievement. And it all came to ruins.

Let your mind create the seen...marble buildings beyond belief, the smell of baking bread in stone ovens, people dressed in colourful robes and gold jewelery, animals and fresh fruit being sold in the market, a temples with 10,000 prostitutes... It's hard to picture even as you stand in these ancient places. Yet you feel a sense of what once took place as you read through Acts, Corinthians, Ephesians and all the Epistles. The story came to life!

Our journey took us from beautiful Porto Rafti to Athens, to Corinth, to the Island of Chios and onto new lands.

PLEASE DO NOT COPY/PASTE/SAVE PHOTOGRAPHS! THEY ARE FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT BUT NOT TO KEEP. THANKS, AARON

Athens














Parthanon









Porto Rafti



















Corinth









Chios Island

2 comments:

Unknown said...

i like your opening shot with that kid!!! where was that taken?

Anonymous said...

oh my goooossssshhhh
you are aweeessommmmeeeeeeeeeeeeee yeeeaaaaa
i like this one wth the coloured light comming throug the stain glass - amazing! can i can one?
xhannah