(From the cover:) Hezekiah was one of Judah's last great kings. But his days were numbered. A mysterious terminal illness threatened to cut him down in the prime of life. Out of his anguish he cried to God. And God, in great mercy, promised to extend Hezekiah's life. Soon after recovering, the good king reflected upon his suffering, what it had taught him, and how he would live his remaining years differently as a result. People like Hezekiah can be found in every generation. They face death, experience healing, and return to life with a changed outlook. Memoirs and Meditations of a Modern Hezekiah tells the story of one such man. An unusually aggressive form of Crohn's disease nearly took my life at the age of thirty-six. Only radical surgery and divine grace saved me. This is my story. These are my meditations. Gregory K. Hollifield (Ph.D., Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary) resides with his wife and son in Memphis, Tennessee. He is also author of the introductory homiletics textbook Preaching in Red and Yellow, Black and White: Culturally Sensitive Answers to the Beginning Preacher's Most Basic Questions.