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TX Taylor County & Jones County: Abilene [9] Abilene: Luke 3:1 TX Henderson County: Athens: Athens: Acts 17:15 TX Collin County & Denton County: Hebron [10] Hebron: Genesis 13:18 TX Hall County: Memphis: Memphis: Hosea 9:6 TX Castro County: Nazareth: Nazareth: Matthew 2:23 TX Wise County: Rhome: Rome: Acts 2:10 UT Sanpete County: Ephraim: Mount ...
In 1914 Nazareth had an estimated 50 residents, and about 150 people were living there by 1927. During the Dust Bowl of the 1930s the area was swept by huge dust storms that uprooted crops and made farming unprofitable; in 1933, the town was estimated to have only 50 residents. Agriculture in Castro County revived during the 1940s, however, and ...
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The Jesus movement was an evangelical Christian movement that began on the West Coast of the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s and primarily spread throughout North America, Europe, Central America, Australia and New Zealand, before it subsided in the late 1980s. Members of the movement were called Jesus people or Jesus freaks.
The gospels suggest that Jesus lacked a permanent home during the period of public ministry that occupied his last years. [1] He left the economic security he had as an artisan and the reciprocity he had with his family and wandered Judaea depending on charity. [2] Many of the people on whom he depended for charity were women. [3]
The Yearning for Zion Ranch, or the YFZ Ranch, [1] was a 1,700-acre (690-hectare) Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) community of as many as 700 people, located near Eldorado in Schleicher County, Texas, United States. In April 2014, the State of Texas took physical and legal possession of the property.
Mary's Well, said to be the site of the Annunciation, Nazareth, 1917. Nazarene is a title used to describe people from the city of Nazareth in the New Testament (there is no mention of either Nazareth or Nazarene in the Old Testament), and is a title applied to Jesus, who, according to the New Testament, grew up in Nazareth, [1] a town in Galilee, located in ancient Judea.
The church was established at the site where, according to one tradition, the Annunciation took place. Another tradition, based on the apocryphal Protoevangelium of James, holds that this event commenced while Mary was drawing water from a local spring in Nazareth, and the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation was erected at that alternate site.