"As Jonah was in the belly of the fish for three days and nights, so Christ was in the heart of the earth. As Jonah preached repentance, so did Christ. As Jonah's preaching was validated by his deliverance from a near death, so Christ's preachi
"We have a greater prophet than Jonah, the ultimate prophet, who was lifted up, and hurled into the sea. But how much greater of a sea was it that Christ was hurled into! Jonah may have felt the cold of the water, and the crushing power of the
"Sin will cause us to desire less and less the presence of God, for in the fear of His judgment, and in the love of our rebellion, we will seek the progressive distancing of ourselves from the Lord."Scripture: Jonah 1:4-6
"Like Jonah, we have a tendency to expect (take for granted) God’s mercy for ourselves, and demand God’s justice for our enemies. May God forgive us our presumption, prejudice, and pride!"Scripture: Jonah 1:1-3
"This will be the 33rd and final sermon in this amazing, cram packed, doctrinally rich, little Epistle. Over the last eight months, we’ve seen the Apostle Paul take us to great and lofty theological heights, and then bring us right back down to
“Even the best preachers require divine aid for their sermons to be effective." Want to know how you can best help your pastor? Pray for him! In today's passage we look at a few different ways that you can and should be praying for your pastor!
"A true marker of growing in spiritual maturity is a believer’s prayer life being more and more filled with praise and thanksgiving, and less and less just rambling off with a spiritual wish list."Scripture: Eph. 6:18
"We make war with the Arsenal of God, which is the Word and prayer. Today, we’ll be examining the Christian’s primary weapon, “the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God” (Eph. 6:17)"Scripture: Eph. 6:17
"Beneath the surface an unseen spiritual war is raging. This is not a war fought with guns, or with politics. This is not war fought with people, or with a certain region on earth. We are in the middle of a war that has been raging on for centu
"If the mindset and work of Christian slaves could be radically transformed by working as to Jesus, then the same must be true of Christian employees today." Scripture: Eph. 6:5-9
“Jesus Christ is the model for both the christian child and the christian parent. If Jesus could obey His Father even when it meant Him dying, if Jesus could humble Himself and do what His Father told Him to do, then children, you should and ca
"If "submission" is the word that characterizes the christian wife, one might expect "rule" to be that which characterizes the christian husband, yet that is not the case. "Love" is the word that encompasses the christian husband's relationship
Even in the midst of a culture that believes marriage and gender roles to be fluid and changing, God's Word adamantly establishes eternal absolutes on the roles of the "Submissive Wife" and "Loving Husband" in the covenant bond of marriage. S
To be a proper saint, we must do away with not only Immoral Acts, and Immoral Speech, but also All Vulgarity and instead be filled with thanksgiving to the Lord!Scripture: Eph. 5:3-4