God's Steadfast Love for Sinners, Strugglers, and All The Others!
What Is "The Sign of Jonah?"
December 3, 2023 • Barry Cooper • Matthew 12:38–42
If someone like Jesus makes the extraordinary claim that He is the Son of God, you’re going to need some pretty extraordinary evidence to back up a claim like that. Very religious people make similar demands too. And Jesus says to them, “The only sign you’ll get is the sign of the prophet Jonah.” So what exactly IS the sign of Jonah?
Discovering The Truth About The Compassion of God
November 26, 2023 • Larry Kirk • Jonah 4:5–11
The compassion of God is purposeful.
God's Gentle Patience with His Petulant Servants
November 19, 2023 • Larry Kirk • Jonah 4:1–4
In the Christian faith, when you put your faith in Christ and invite him into your life, he begins to work on you to change you into the person he wants you to become. It's a process. It requires patience.
Does God Change His Mind?
November 12, 2023 • Barry Cooper • Jonah 3
Theologians call it God’s “immutability”: the idea that God is unchangeable in His essence, His nature, and His perfections. Firstly, this is good news because it means God’s PERSON, God’s being, is unchangeable. Secondly, it’s good news because his CHARACTER is unchangeable. Thirdly and finally, this is good news because it means God’s PLANS and PROMISES to you are unchangeable.
Getting Right With God
November 5, 2023 • Larry Kirk • Jonah 3
God uses this story to teach us that he is both a God of steadfast love and a God of righteous judgment. And therefore, we need to be sure that we get right with him. Repentance is how we do that.
Jonah and the Great Fish: Aren't Miracles Hard to Swallow?
October 29, 2023 • Barry Cooper • Jonah 1:17
It is not unreasonable to believe in the divinity of Jesus, that it is not unreasonable to believe in miracles.
Idols in the Deep
October 22, 2023 • Barry Cooper • Jonah 2:8
It’s often when we are at our very lowest that we have the deepest insights about who we are and who God is.
Our Greatest Help In Deep Distress
October 15, 2023 • Larry Kirk • Jonah 2
No matter how deep our distress, we can call on the Lord for help.
God In the Tempest
October 8, 2023 • Barry Cooper • Jonah 1:9–17
First, sin always leads to a storm. And secondly, there is love in the storm.
My Will or God's Will
October 1, 2023 • Larry Kirk • Jonah 1
What Jonah teaches us from the very beginning is that it is foolish to run away from even the most demanding assignment from God. When God calls us to do something, the only way to go forward is to trust and obey.
Jonah and the Steadfast Love of the Lord
September 24, 2023 • Larry Kirk • Jonah 1:1–3, Jonah 4:2
The book of Jonah presents Jonah as disobedient, selfish, bitter, angry, and foolish. And yet, no one would have known the details of the story to tell it except Jonah himself. So the evidence suggests Jonah, on the other side of his own repentance and restoration, is inspired by God to tell his own story in a self-deprecating manner that highlights how foolish he had been.
