Women Who Fear The Lord
Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised (Prov.31:30). I thought of this text a couple of Sundays ago when Helen Rossi celebrated her 99th birthday in our…
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The Power Of The Word
This is great power in the Word of God. In Scripture the word of God is compared to many different things. It is a mirror that reveals to us our true selves, warts and all (Js.1:23f). It is…
God’s Fellow Workers
The very thought of sharing the gospel with those around us would be overwhelming if it were not for the fact that God has promised to be our Helper. Paul reminded the church at Corinth that those who…
The God Of New Beginnings
After being obstinate, recalcitrant, defiant, rebellious and willfully disobedient, God offered Jonah a new beginning. It wasn’t a second chance in the sense of happenstance or luck. The providence of God never comes by accident. The word of…
The Sign Of Jonah
Nestled deeply within the story of Jonah is a fleshing out of the words of Jesus, “unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone; but if it dies, it bears…
A Cry From The Deep
The psalms of David were apparently transcribed and circulated among the nation of Israel (perhaps shortly after they were first penned – – not a big undertaking for the administration of a king). It seems obvious when we…
The Not-So-Good Ole Days
(Excerpted from The Great Upheaval: America And The Birth Of The Modern World 1788-1800, by Jay Winik). “The waning decades of the seventeenth century remained, for a majority of mankind, the bleakest of times… Only half of infants…
Swallowed Up By God
Some feel driven to contend that the story of Jonah and the whale is simply an allegory or a parable. But the words of our Lord concerning Jonah sound rather historical: Just as Jonah was three days and…
Awash In Deep Troubles
First God prepared an assignment for Jonah: Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and cry against it… (Jonah 1:2). Subsequently, Jonah’s recalcitrance (he chose to try to run away from God / Jonah 1:3) caused God to…
Dreading to Proclaim Grace
Jonah was a servant of God. We have no reason to doubt his faithfulness. He labored during the reign of Jeroboam II in a time when the king of the northern tribes continued the evil doings permitted by…