Josiah tears down the high places. Week four on a king who took a nation that had forgotten God so thoroughly it no longer knew what the law was.
2 Kings 23 and Josiah using his influence to call the whole nation together — reading the book of the covenant aloud in their hearing, small and great alike.
Hilkiah finds the book of the law in the house of the Lord, and the king tears his clothes when he hears what it says. A nation had mislaid its…
2 Kings 22 opens a series on Josiah — of more than forty kings of Israel, only four or five are said to have walked in the ways of their…
Acts 4:32-37 and the Barnabas heart — a church holding everything in common — taken alongside communion.
Acts 4:23-31. Either God is in charge or he is not; there is no third option where he is kind of in charge depending on what the kings of the…