The hope of the Christian gospel isn’t just future blessing after we’ve died. Jesus grants us new life in the here and now, as he transforms how we think and live.
Pie in the sky?
Anchored
Abraham started life not knowing God. But in his later years, God called this elderly, childless man to move to Canaan where he would be blessed with family and home. Yet having given Abraham a son – Isaac – God then demanded him back via sacrifice
Have no idols
Through this short story, Jonah has shown himself unwilling to accept God on His own terms.
I know better than God
Jonah has survived a terrible threat of death twice: once in the sea, and once in Assyria.
Taming a beast
Jonah was swallowed by a great fish, and survived by God’s kindness. Now he’s swallowed by a greater monster
Near death experience
Jonah is drowning. He cries to the Lord. The Lord saves him miraculously.