#PINE TREE APPLE ORCHARD TV#

What God has smashed down, let no one build back up! We are all sinners without hope. We think it best to keep the apple orchard safe from the pine trees, while all the time muttering under our breaths something about 'Good fences make good neighbors.' Oh, the stubbornness of the human heart. No longer were Gentiles 'strangers and aliens.' For Paul, they were now 'fellow citizens, saints, and members of the household of God.' Jesus is proof that God does not love walls! In fact, he is all about smashing them out of existence!Īnd yet, as William Barclay poignantly observed, 'It is the tragedy of the Church that it is so often more exclusive than God.' We keep re-erecting the very walls that Jesus broke down. Now Christ had come and annulled it, destroying it by his death and, through his blood, sealing a new covenant, a covenant for Jews and Gentile alike, a covenant for all who would trust in God through Christ. In the past God had made a covenant with Israel based on obedience to Torah. Paul challenged the Ephesian church to tear down their theological walls. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'. There where it is we do not need the wall:Īnd eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. Here is an excerpt from the middle section. I am sure the Apostle Paul would have enjoyed reading Robert Frost's 'Mending Wall.' It ties in so well with his words to the Ephesians. He courageously proclaimed a new way of viewing life in which 'there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, there is no rich or poor.' As expected, Paul encountered fierce opposition with every dividing wall he tried to break down. He also addressed other social barriers including slavery, sexism, and economic prejudice. Breaking down barriers he asserted that before God there was 'neither Jew nor Gentile.' The orator and lawyer Cicero once commented, 'As the Greeks say, all men are divided into two classes-Greeks and barbarians.' Paul offered a daring new paradigm for social equality. The Jews had divided the world into two groups, Jews and Gentiles. The theme running throughout the video was the boldness of Paul's message in challenging the social stratification that was prevalent in the Jewish and Roman world of his day.

While filming in Greece, I served as an on-site commentator on the life of Paul.

#PINE TREE APPLE ORCHARD TV#

Not long ago I participated in a documentary entitled, 'Breaking Down Barriers: Journeys of the Apostle Paul.' The production was the collaborative efforts of Goshen College, FiveCoreMedia and Footstep Ministries and received a 2014 Telly Bronze Award for Religious TV Programming. But our microclimate at the lake is zone is foorcast to be another record breaker for heat- just like 2011 was.Īny ideas on what might be going wrong with our trees? I'm about ready to give up but Grandfatherbear really, really wants to grow apples.Ephesians Day Nine So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God.This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus. The extension agent theorized it was too hot in the city and we might have better luck at the lake cabin, it usually being at least 10 degrees cooler at night and during the winter. We planted Anna apples years ago in the city and they died within 18 months. We were really hoping we'de be able to get at least couple of apples o live and bear fruit. We feed them citrus fertilizer (don't remember the exact propertions but something like 19-6-9- I do know the first number is 19) and we water weekly-the last 2 summers had long periods of drought. They don't seem to die with ant treatments-just move their cities around, and the 3 in 1 seemed pretty healthy its first 3 years until the ants moved in. The apples have all been planted within 25 feet of the pine trees. We have large mature pines on the property and I used pine needle mulch for the apples.

The trees first would bloom in high summer after starting a few fruits in spring, and would keep putting out 1-2 blooms thru fall and winter. The 3 in 1 graft lived 5 years but everything else lived very short times (except the everest crab) The pettingill and golden dorset died within a few months and the Tropic Sweet isn't even a year old and we think it's dying. Not a lot of information about apples readily available to us, but we have planted a couple of different low-chill apples- a 3-in-1 graft (Golden Dorset, Anna, Einshmer) A seperate Golden Dorset, a tropic Sweet, a yellow transparent crab and an everest crab, and a Pettingill.

Pine tree apple orchard