Philippians 3:18-19
Consider a small scene. A man wakes up, walks to the kitchen, and finds that the coffee is wrong. Maybe the beans ran out and what is on the counter is a brand he tolerates rather than the one he loves. Maybe he is…
Jonah 3:1-4:5
Jonah names two sources of violence: Nineveh's brutal paganism and Jonah's moralistic religion. God refuses both. He does not excuse Nineveh, and he does not excuse Jonah's anger. The way forward is forgiveness that has…
Jonah 2:1-10
Jonah's prayer from inside the fish shows what spiritual transformation requires. Jonah had real faith, but his faith was fitted to his old world and not yet ready for God's call to Nineveh. Jonah 2:8-9 gives the frame:…