Learning to love others the way Jesus loves us
Nahum chapters 2&3(Image credit unknown) Article © Christopher Jones 2016 The great palaces of Nineveh are long gone. What is left is uninhabitable rubble and dust. Even that was unseen until archaeologists unearthed it. And what archaeologists discovered in the last century was blown up by ISIS (Daesh) forces five years ago. Every great culture… Continue reading What will we build?
Nahum chapter 1. It seems like every blockbuster movie or popular novel tries to create a sequel that matches the drama and characters of the original. Most of the time, the sequel falls flat. Either the original writers don't return or there's some formula that they try to squeeze the story into or they just… Continue reading Nineveh: the Sequel
Jonah Jonah opens with the Lord telling Jonah to "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before Me" (Jonah 1:2). What was so great about Nineveh and why was God interested in it in ~750 BCE? Archaeologist Henry Layard's image of Nineveh. Nineveh was… Continue reading Jonah: The setting.
Defaulting to Grace 