“I sank beneath the waves, and death was very near. The waters closed above me; the seaweed wrapped itself around my head.” Jonah 2:5 God had Jonah right where He wanted him … in putrid darkness with nothing but time to think about his decision to run from Him. Jonah ...
Read More »King David’s Example: A Different View
King David’s life had two sides. He was a warrior, chosen by God to rule when he was a lowly shepherd boy with several impressive older brothers. He lived with God’s favor on his life for many of his years, and today he is still known as “a man after ...
Read More »“But I really want a boyfriend!”
The pioneering path to the greatest frontiers in the kingdom of heaven is littered with the figurative bones of young girls who were the brightest and mightiest for the Lord, but who got sidetracked and taken out–at least temporarily–by an altogether natural impulse: the desire to have a boyfriend. Time and ...
Read More »Our Hope: Jonah’s Tempest
” ‘Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.’ But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.” Jonah 1:2-3 (NKJV) Jonah did do what the LORD commanded him to do–he arose. But that is as ...
Read More »Caretakers of God’s Creation
“In the beginning God created the earth and all its inhabitants, every green thing and every living creature. These were created so man had all he needed to survive and multiply on the earth. He then gave man dominion over the whole planet.” (Genesis 1:26) All the creatures of the world ...
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