How Can I Give You Up?
We show what we love by what we’re willing to lose. In Hosea 11, God has every right to give up on Israel, yet his heart turns over within him, and that compassion is where ours begins.
Show Me Your Glory
Everything on our prayer list answered, but God not with us. Would we notice? In Exodus 33, Moses refuses to go anywhere without God, asks to see his glory, and hears God’s goodness spoken over him. In Jesus, what only Moses had is now ours.
The Worst Day
God’s clearest word about who he is was spoken over his people’s worst failure. In Exodus 32, Israel builds a golden calf, Moses pleads from God’s character alone, and we learn that we do not have to get better before we come back to God.
The Question God Leaves Open
Jonah knew all the right things about God and still sat outside the city, angry and unchanged. In the last scene of the book, God asks him one more question, and Jesus shows us that being around him is not the same as coming to him and trusting him.
Is It Good?
Nineveh turned, God relented, and it should have been good news. For Jonah, it was the worst news he'd ever heard. In Jonah 4, the prophet calls God's mercy evil, and God answers with a gentle question that still hangs over us: Is it good?
The City That Turned & the God Who Relented
A king came down off his throne on a maybe, and God relented. In Jonah 3:6–10, we watch a violent city turn at five words from a reluctant prophet, learn how God relents without changing, and face why we go quiet about the hardest part of the gospel.
The Second Word
Jonah runs, drowns, and washes up on the same coast he fled. Then the word of the LORD comes a second time — unchanged, at full size, with no mention of the last three chapters. What God does with people who have already failed him, and what it cost.
Songs From The Belly
Jonah finally prays, and what comes out is not a confession but a song. Every line is true. Some of it is the most beautiful theology in the book. And it is not enough. How can a man be all the way right and still all the way unchanged?
We Are Being Shaped
We shape our tools; then our tools shape us. Genesis 11 uncovers the anthropology behind every tower we build — and points to the God who names us before we ever build anything at all.