All Real Faith Involves Discipline: Albert E. Day on cooperation with God
I encountered these provocative words from Albert Edward Day in Discipline and Discovery. While perhaps in some ways using exaggeration to make his point, Day strikes home the importance of cooperating with God in the process of spiritual growth. True holiness is a witness that cannot be ignored. Real sainthood is a phenomenon to which …
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Why Did Jonah Run from God?
1 The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: 2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.” 3 But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and …
Jonah [God in the Ruins]
One of the hardest tasks of the preacher is to take a well-known part of Scripture and make it fresh for people again. This past weekend at Eastbrook, I tried to do just that as I preached on Jonah in our series on the minor prophets, "God in the Ruins." Unlike all the other minor …
A Prayer inspired by the prophet Jonah
Almighty God, You are the powerful Creator of all the nations upon earth. You are holy and wonderful beyond what we understand. We look at Jonah and we are startled by his insolence in running away from You, by his humility in recognizing Your rescue, and his anger at Your mercy to those he felt …
Matthew Erickson 