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Jonah’s anger was not marked by outbursts of rage but by a quiet withdrawal from the company of others and a growing preoccupation with the events in his own life.

Jonah: Navigating a God-Centered Life

If you feel that without a certain person, or position, or achievement, your life would be not worth living, you may be deeper into idolatry than you think.

Jonah: Navigating a God-Centered Life

In serving as a pastor for over thirty years, I have seen some remarkable transformations and I’ve seen some big disappointments. I have two observations. First, where there has been lasting change, the common factor, in every case, is that the Wor...

Jonah: Navigating a God-Centered Life

The Bible is different because it is the Word of God, by which He speaks to me. Disagreeing with the Bible would be disagreeing with God. So when I read the Bible I want to place myself ‘under’ it. I want to receive the Scripture in such a way th...

Jonah: Navigating a God-Centered Life

God’s Word is the living seed that brings new birth. It is the milk that nurtures the new life of a young Christian and the meat that builds the muscle of a mature believer.

Jonah: Navigating a God-Centered Life

Explaining temptation by saying “God is testing me” or “Satan is attacking me” positions “me” either as the victim, if I am defeated, or the hero, if I prevail. But confessing that “My heart is desperately wicked” provides no such com...

Jonah: Navigating a God-Centered Life

The person who learns to number his or her days gains a heart of wisdom (Ps. 90:12).

Jonah: Navigating a God-Centered Life

Lord, make me less like Jonah and more like Jesus. Save me from being the kind of person who cares more about my comfort, my reputation, and my success than I do about the people You are calling me to serve. Help me to keep all of my dreams on Your a...

Jonah: Navigating a God-Centered Life

When God interrupts your life, He is calling you to follow Him in a new way. By breaking into your settled pattern, He is moving you to a new place where you can make fresh discoveries of His grace. Embracing God’s call is never easy, but this is w...

Jonah: Navigating a God-Centered Life

Our culture says ‘live your dream,’ but God calls you to place your dream on His altar and to keep it there at all times. It is good to have hopes and dreams for the future, but we have no rights. There are no certainties. Any dream can become an...

Jonah: Navigating a God-Centered Life

Authentic gospel preaching always engages people with eternal issues.

Jonah: Navigating a God-Centered Life

Grace is more than God opening the door to salvation; it’s God bringing people in.

Jonah: Navigating a God-Centered Life

Grace means that God steps into the lives of particular individuals with the purpose and effect of saving them. He needs no permission to do this, nor is He under any obligation to do so.

Jonah: Navigating a God-Centered Life

He endured all that hell is on the cross, so that you would never know what hell is like.

Jonah: Navigating a God-Centered Life

I am so glad that Jesus does not say, “Practice more spiritual disciplines.” He says, “Come to me…and I will give you rest.

Jonah: Navigating a God-Centered Life

Living communion with God in which He is real, alive, fresh, and present to your soul energizes a God-centered life.

Jonah: Navigating a God-Centered Life

When your heart is gripped by the love of God poured out in the cross, and when you see the extent of that love in the propitiation by which Christ became the sacrifice for your sin, bearing wrath and entering hell for you, and when you are convinced...

Jonah: Navigating a God-Centered Life