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 someone hears a message but does not act upon it, sometimes we say that “it went in one ear and out the other.”...
In John 13:18-38, we pick up the conversation between Jesus and his disciples over dinner. After he had washed their feet, he announced that...
In Daniel 2, a problem arose because of the absence of the gods among humans, but the true God showed himself through a human.