Have you ever met someone when you were a little kid and maybe not especially liked them? But then, as an adult, you realize your childhood perception was completely mistaken? I felt this way when I dug deeper into research about Jacob’s wife, Leah. But I also felt this way about my own grandmother. 😕 When I was little, I …
Why Jesus’ Genealogy Matters To Me
Have you started the New Year with a Bible-Read-Thru plan? If so, you’ve undoubtedly hit a family tree by now. Whether starting with Genesis or using a combination plan that suggests Old and New Testaments with Psalms/Proverbs, you probably came to a family tree with those funny names within the first week of reading. Why did God record all those …
It’s All About The Guide – Luke 1 Devotional
[Do the guide schools in Israel teach all guides to hold their hands like that when they talk? Sorry, off topic…] Israel, Then & Now Imagine twenty-plus years ago. March 2000. We had dodged the Y2K panic and flown safely across the Atlantic; endured a 9-hour layover in Munich, Germany; and were three days into our first tour of Israel. …
Christmas Lost – And Found! by Tessa Afshar
Greetings, y’all! Mesu here. 😉 As this year’s holidays approached, I tried to think of a gift I could offer my readers, and I thought ya’ll might enjoy hearing from other authors about their special holiday memories. I’m thrilled to introduce my sweet friend, Tessa Afshar. Most of you probably already know her through her UH-mazing biblical novels, but did you …
Thanksgiving: Past and Present by Brennan McPherson
Hi, Gang! Mesu here. 🙂 I’d like to welcome my dear friend and fellow biblical fiction (bibfic) author, Brennan McPherson, to my pre-Thanksgiving blog! Brennan and I have been email buddies since his first novel released in 2016. Soon after, we collaborated with Carole Towriss on The Psalm Series in which each of us wrote a novella about a psalm of our choice. …
Was Assyria’s King Sennacherib Married to a Hebrew?
The bronze (originally gold-plated) relief above commemorates the restoration of Babylon by Esarhaddon, ca. 681-669 BC. Some scholars believe his mama was Hebrew. Can you see the short, chubby mama (center of pic) standing behind her strapping young son? Yep, that’s Naqi’a-Zakutu (called simply Naqia in Isaiah’s Legacy). Why was she important enough to etch into a relief found in the temple of …