“Bad people should get a bad end.” This was Jonah’s outlook, and often our own. Jonah was furious with God. His wrath was a bubbling over kind of wrath. We often fail to see and act as God sees and acts. One day we hope to see realized more and more the very depth of […]

Just like Jonah, we have a message from the Creator God to a rebelling humanity for everyone. It begins with information about God’s work of sending his Son as a perfect Savior for humanity; it ends with an invitation. But people don’t have to understand it all and pass a Bible exam before they become […]

Jonah succeeds in what he set out to do. He removes himself from the presence of God. Now he is drowning; he is dying. Yet God extends undeserved grace. He rescues Jonah. We learn that there is this reality of the presence of a God who loves in all of that brokenness. The grace of […]

God called Jonah to a mission of grace. To teach Jonah His grace and to show him that he loved the people of Nineveh despite their incredible sin and evil ways. Jonah ran. God’s grace really is bigger than most of us are willing to admit or perhaps even imagine. Are you running? Are you […]

God cares about cities. He sent Jonah to Nineveh. It was a wicked place. They were a violent people. That God wanted a prophet to even go and talk to them says volumes about the grace and love of God. God desired to keep this city intact. Why does God care about the cities so […]