I am teaching about Hezekiah and Josiah, two “good” kings of Judah (out of a slew of losers) who might be said to have incurred “revivals” in the 600s BC in the Southern Kingdom. I see these two regimes as times for the individual Jews to repent even though the prophesied end would come: destruction of their land and capital and temple; exile; and then return of a humbled people 70 or more years later. It is hard to imagine the history of the Bible without 586 B.C., Nebuchadn

My trip to Turkey was eleven days of my life, and nine and a half of those actually in the country. This is a limited time to get a sense of what the country is like, but here are my thoughts, and my prayers. I have hundreds of photos posted on Facebook and on my other blog. They are here: https://www.facebook.com/barbara.tucker.161 and here: https://partsofspeakingpublishing.blogspot.com/ One is not very long in the country before you know you are in a Muslim country. It i

Those who have accepted that God saves by His grace alone have found the message to be one of unutterable sweet liberation. Martin Luther wrote, “I felt as if I was born again, led to Paradise through open gates,” and so it remains today. The Reformers’ tenacious insistence on grace alone is no relic of the history books or thought of as an embarrassment and as the sorry squabble of persnickety theologians. It remains as the only message of ultimate liberation, the message wi