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 unpleasant, namely, go preach to the Ninevites, the mortal enemies of the Israelites. However, God did not give up on Jonah, or, as we shall see, on the Ninevites, or on us.
In Jesus’ final public teaching in the Gospel of John (10:22-42), the people of Jerusalem tried to pin him down. They wanted him to...
Two parables directed against the religious leaders indicated why they would lose their management of the kingdom, and why others would take their place.
Human beings love using metaphors, comparisons between two things that are unlike to bring out some special way in which they are alike. In...