Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.” But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the … [Read more...] about Jonah – The Reluctant Prophet
Old Testament
A New Creation: Consummation
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. Genesis 2:24, 25 Shame. It is the most apparent curse of sin. Shame is what drives humanity to hide in fear, often behind fig leaves of pride. In some cases, shame drives people to drown their … [Read more...] about A New Creation: Consummation
A New Creation: Relaxation
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.Genesis 2:1-3 Rest. We all … [Read more...] about A New Creation: Relaxation
A New Creation: Sanctification
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”So God created man in his own image,in the image of God he created him;male and female he created them.And God saw … [Read more...] about A New Creation: Sanctification
A New Creation: Multiplication
And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply..."Genesis 1:22, 28 The early to mid-1980s saw a rise is kitchy, comic "horror" films that as a middle schooler I often found more comedic and than horrific. Such films of this error included the likes of "Return of the Walking Dead", "Army of Darkness", and other such ridiculousness that were filmed in more horrible … [Read more...] about A New Creation: Multiplication