Chapter eighteen provides yet another illustration for Jeremiah’s preaching ministry. God told him to visit a potter and watch him work (Jeremiah 18:1-4). What he saw was that the clay was totally submissive to the potter’s hands and desire. If things were not going the way the potter wanted, he could use the same clay […]
Chapter 3 is a really powerful part of Jonah’s story, maybe even the most powerful. People tend to focus on the fish and the plant, but those are really secondary to the story of God’s never-ending search to deliver humans. This is the main course of the little book, and in it I find three
So, we’re working through the book of Jonah, and we handled (as much as possible) the deal with the huge fish in the last post. There is one more important thing about chapter 2 that I’d like to consider here. How did Jonah survive? According to everything I have been taught, Jonah was swallowed by
