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.
Although not exactly a parable, the judgment scene that concluded Jesus’ public teaching in Matthew brings together important themes of his parables of the...
The chief priest could not control his wicked sons, so God removed them all and raised up the one who could intercede between humans...
In order to understand marriage, we need to go back to the creation of the woman in Genesis 2:18-25.
