(April 27, 2020) See Jonah 1 “The captain went to him and said, ‘How can you sleep? Get up and call on your god!’” Personally, I typically do not enjoy re-reading books or watching a movie. It just seems less interesting to me because I already know how the story will turn out. (Unless of [...]
(April 24, 2020) See Jonah 1:12-13 “Pick me up and throw me into the sea,” [Jonah] replied... Instead, the men did their best to row back to land.” – The supersized Book of Jonah is full of contrasts. Consider: On one hand, we have Jonah. Jonah knows God. He hears God’s voice. He is a [...]
(April 23, 2020) See Jonah 1:1 “Go to the great city of Nineveh...” – Here is a general rule of thumb when reading the scriptures: note which word(s) are repeated. For example, consider Jonah 1. Everything in Jonah is super-sized. God did not send Jonah to the City of Nineveh – no, He sent him to [...]
(April 22, 2020) Jonah 1:1-2 “The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.” Read: Jonah 1 The Book of Jonah holds much. From our childhood, we might have heard the story of a [...]
(April 21, 2020) Matthew 12:39-40 “[no sign] will be given [this generation] except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” Read: Matthew [...]
(April 20, 2020) Jonah 2:9a “But I, with a song of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to you.” Read: Jonah 2 Yesterday, as I was finishing this week of study leave, my family and I were watching one of the Sunday School classes videos. The lesson was on [...]
(April 13, 2020) Ephesians 1:1-2 “1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus: 2Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” Read: Ephesians 1-2 It was customary in the ancient Greco-Roman world to begin a letter [...]
(April 10, 2020, Good Friday) Mark 10:32-45 “[The chief priests and teachers of the law] will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles, who will mock him and spit on him, flog him and kill him. Three days later he will rise.” Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, [...]
(April 9, 2020) John 13:34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” The one time that Jesus calls something “new” in John’s Gospel – is right here. A “new command” I give you: as I have loved you, so you must love [...]
(April 8, 2020) Mark 14:3 “…as [Jesus] was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head.” Read: Mark 14:1-11 On Wednesday of the first Holy Week, two key events took place: (1) Judas agreed to [...]
