Lately my son, Barry, and I have been experimenting with shooting aerial video from a remote control helicopter. The Old City of Jerusalem is a no fly zone. However, we received special permission to video the Jerusalem excavation where I am a staff member. This morning we had one take at flying over the Old City in the early light of dawn. We had a great challenge, though; we couldn't see what the camera saw. We were shooting blind due to a monitor malfunction. As the Bible says, sometimes we have to be blind to truly see.

On February 8, 2014, a symposium was held at Houston Baptist University in conjunction with the new archaeological exhibit, ' Khirbet el-Maqatir: History of a Biblical Site.' In this video, Dr. Eugene Merrill presents, 'Ai and Old Testament Chronology: Who Cares?'

On February 8, 2014, a symposium was held at Houston Baptist University in conjunction with the new archaeological exhibit, ' Khirbet el-Maqatir: History of a Biblical Site.' Dr. Bryant Wood presented the evidence from eleven seasons of excavations at Khirbet el-Maqatir. No other site meets all the criteria necessary to be the Ai of Joshua 7-8.

Read Dr. Wood's most recent report on the excavations at Khirbet el-Maqatir (PDF Link).

Hear Dr. Scott Stripling talk about the Khirbet el-Maqatir Exhibit at Houston Baptist University and the Symposium on February 8, 2014.

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We presently live in a culture of great skepticism and confusion. Many scholars, scientists, historians and forces within culture believe the Bible is an outdated, irrelevant book, filled with fables, stories, and mythological constructs that are not based on reality. Members of the ABR staff gathered together in a roundtable discussion to talk about some of the criticisms presently being leveled against the Bible. In this 11 part series (on a 2 DVD set), find out why you can trust the Bible.

Ai is simply an embarrassment to every view of the conquest that takes the biblical and archaeological evidence seriously' This is what Bible critics have been saying for decades about the Israelite battle at Ai in Joshua 7-8.

The staff of the Associates for Biblical Research shares the vision and mission of the ABR ministry in this new promotional video.

Recently, I sat down in the early morning to enjoy a cup of coffee and my newspaper. The headline of the Jerusalem Post read 'Swarm of Locusts Crosses Sinai Border into Israel'. I leaped out of my chair, grabbed my camera gear, jumped in my car and raced towards the Egyptian border. Within three hours locusts were bouncing off my windshield!