Inside Out: Putting Anxiety in its Place
Inside Out: Joy penetrates the command center in Riley’s head, seizes the control panel, looks at Anxiety and declares, “Let her go.”
Inside Out: Joy penetrates the command center in Riley’s head, seizes the control panel, looks at Anxiety and declares, “Let her go.”
When Damar Hamlin collapsed on Monday Night Football, the whole nation embraced a tone, if not a posture of prayer. Everyone was in agreement that the situation was dire.
Jonah was self-righteous, bitter, and lacking in mercy and compassion. The stubborn prophet had to learn a hard lesson about grace.
The Sign of Jonah: Jonah was hurled into the sea to appease the wrath of God. Jesus appeased the wrath of God on the cross for our sins.
“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us,” wrote A.W. Tozer.
They called him “Wrong Way” Roy. His gaffe on New Year’s Day, 1929, is often cited as the worst blunder in college football history.
When a humpback whale off Herring Cove Beach swallowed Michael Packard, it was utter darkness for the veteran lobster diver.
C.S. Lewis said, “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
Pagan sailors seem to have more sensitivity and awareness to things God is doing around them than does Jonah, who ironically is a “prophet.”
It’s been said that most Christians are educated way beyond their level of obedience. As a prophet, Jonah waseducated in the things of God.