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If you have followed Jesus wholeheartedly for any significant period of time, one of the few things I could almost guarantee is that, at some stage, you have found yourself angry with God. [...]

At the heart of the story of Jonah is God’s radical call to His people to live in a different way to the world, and to love and forgive our enemies. Assyria was a brutal, cruel empire, that [...]

So often it’s the artists who most effectively capture the heart of something and express it in a deep, articulate way, that sneakily side steps our suspicions and biases, bypasses our [...]

The story of Jonah sees God extending grace to Nineveh. He doesn’t want to leave that great city to the consequences of their many sins – he desires mercy rather than judgement. However, this [...]

I’m sure you can recognise the moment from the movies. There’s a bad guy of some sort… And he’s running down the street, thinking he’s getting away from the cops. He [...]

A few years ago, the Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago conducted a huge survey investigating how followers of Jesus grow spiritually. They surveyed over 250 000 people across thousands of [...]

Tools to help read, understand, and be shaped by the bible I think most people who want to follow Jesus, have some measure of desire to read the bible and engage with it in a way that feels [...]

Seven months ago I started reading the short 4 chapter bible story of Jonah. I started reading it just as part of my devotions and because I thought it would be good to read through an old [...]