For example, at my church we recently finished a study of Jonah. I’m sure many of you are familiar with his story. He was the prophet who was instructed by God to warn the people of a certain ...

The Book of Jonah, however, is written as a historical tale with a historical prophet mentioned in II Kings 14:25 and confirmed to have existed by Jesus Christ in Matthew 12:40-41. Christ here ...

The Story. Jonah the prophet lived in the desert, daily companioned by such birds and beasts as lions, mice, gazelles and ravens, lying down at night with the gentle foxes of Tob. At length ...

Jonah hurries to tell Nineveh that it’s doomed. But the city repents, and God forgives the people, which frustrates the prophet — after all, why all the drama if nothing was going to happen?

In scripture, Jonah spent three days and nights in the belly of the whale before he was spit out alive and allowed to continue preaching to the Ninevites. Poet Gabriel Moreno has spent more than three ...

Sometimes when I read the Bible, I can see a parallel between things that happened during biblical times and what is happening in our world today. For example, at my church we recently finished a ...