Jonah

  • Jonah and God

    Jonah and God

    Jonah 4:2 “He prayed to the Lord, “Isn’t this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity.” When you meet someone for the first

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  • Go!

    Go!

    Jonah 3:1-2 “Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, “Go to Nineveh the great city and declare to it the message which I am going to tell you.” Before cell phones and the internet, people used to give out directions. Take Highway 88 for 15 miles and turn left at the old

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  • In Your Distress

    In Your Distress

    Jonah 2:1 “In my distress I called to the Lord, and he answered me.” We were at Lake Buchanan and I was a young teenager. We were fishing and having a good time, me, my dad, and my brother. We were not catching much when I somehow got a treble hook caught in the skin

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  • Listen to God

    Listen to God

    Jonah 1:11-12 The sea was getting rougher and rougher. So they asked him, “What should we do to you to make the sea calm down for us?” “Pick me up and throw me into the sea,” he replied, “and it will become calm. I know that it is my fault that this great storm has

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