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.
In our summer sermon series on some of Jesus’ parables, we start with The Parable of the Sower (or Soils) in Mark 4:1-20. This...
When were the glory days of the church: perhaps when it was being persecuted, or maybe when it held sway over the culture? In...
In Ruth 4, we come to the conclusion of the story of Ruth. However, the author has several surprises in store for us readers...