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.
The LORD uses leaders to deal with threats to the welfare of his people, and he is the God who delivers them.
The resurrection of Jesus Christ has far-reaching implications about how Christians live and how we die.
Almost all humans recognize that there is a gap between what we should do and what we actually do. Also, we have invented many...