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.
If genealogies are not the most engaging reading, why would Matthew begin his history of Jesus with one in Matthew 1:1-17? Actually, genealogies can...
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 response to all of God‘s mercies described in the first 11 chapters, we are to present our bodies and be renewed in our...