In Jonah 4, we find the most successful preacher of his day angry enough to die after his greatest triumph, because God had done in Nineveh exactly what Jonah had suspected he would do. In this final chapter, God presented two arguments to teach Jonah about compassion, the same two arguments that still hold for us who have received God’s compassion in Christ.
People asked Jesus about when and where the kingdom of God would come, but Jesus focused on the fact that it’s already present and...
In Jonah 1, we meet the Israelite prophet who preferred to flee rather than obey the Lord’s call to do something new, surprising, and...
New life in Christ includes submission to governmental authorities, love for the other, and putting on Christ for all to see him.