Showing posts with label nineveh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nineveh. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Found Wanting

Quick context: a men's class is studying the book of Jonah.

Our teacher has a really good way of throwing out questions that make us think, in combination with what he teaches.

On the second night, we covered the first three verses of Jonah, where it seems like relatively little happens, but those verses...

Here's what they contain: God speaks to Jonah, saying to go to Nineveh. Jonah says no, and heads off to Tarshish.

One of the followup questions was "What would you be willing to do to duck His plan for your life?"

Thursday, January 12, 2012

What did Jonah say to Nineveh?

On Monday nights, my church has a men's core training class, where a set of men get together to study books of the Bible together. Last semester, we went through the book of James (which ended up with me starting this blog in an attempt to do more as part of a Christian life); this semester, we have the books of Jonah and Nahum as material.

I've been thinking about the book of Jonah, since it's what we're covering first. One thing jumps out at me: what did Jonah say to Nineveh?