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.
During a meal with his disciples in John 13:1-17, Jesus did something that shattered social norms. He dressed like a slave and performed a...
Human beings love using metaphors, comparisons between two things that are unlike to bring out some special way in which they are alike. In...
The Parable of the Soils describes the division caused by Jesus' preaching and urges us to hear his word well to receive more and...