God, why on earth would you do that?
When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened. Jonah 3:10 ‘They’ being the Assyrians, the...
Monthly Archive: April 2017
How other people might respond when we talk about God…
Resurrection is not the end of the story. In many ways, it’s just the beginning. Jonah’s story does not end with him being saved from the belly of the whale. There’s no ‘And he lived...
Resurrection changes a person
When Jesus came back to life after three days in the tomb, he was changed. He still looked like a human. He still behaved like a human – he walked and talked, he ate...
This is resurrection
And the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land. Jonah 2:10 OK, so it may not have been pretty and perfect; it may have been messy and smelly; it was...
Finding words for that Easter Saturday feeling
From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God. Jonah 2:1 It was all he could do. In the depths of despair, Jonah was striving to find a language for his pain....
Jonah: misunderstood and under-rated
Jonah, he lived in a whale Jonah, he lived in a whale He made his home in that fish’s abdomen Jonah, he lived in a whale From ‘It ain’t necessarily so’ Apologies. Had...
Let’s face it, we’ve all ended up inside a whale at some point in our lives…
Now the Lord provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. Jonah 1:17 Let’s not get hung on the huge fish....
Don’t panic!
The story so far: God has asked Jonah to do something he doesn’t want to do and Jonah has run in the opposite direction. God has sent a storm to bring Jonah to his...
And then comes the storm
To recap yesterday’s post, Journeying with Jonah through Easter Week, God speaks God reaches out in love and mercy man runs away That man is Jonah, but it could equally be you or me...
Journeying with Jonah through Easter week
Jonah in Easter week – are you mad? What’s that all about? Stick with me. Over the next week, I’m about to show you why Jonah is actually the perfect fit for Easter week....
