Tag: prophets

  • Beyond Nineveh

    Taking the long view – Beyond Nineveh and Nazareth “Do you think that I like to see wicked people die? says the Sovereign LORD. Of course not! I want them to turn from their wicked ways and live. Ezekiel 18:23 NLT You may remember the story of the Prophet Jonah, a ‘follower’ of God who turned…

    Rembrandt - Jonah before the walls of Nineveh
  • and new things I now declare – 4

    Isaiah 48: 3 “The former things I declared of old;     they went out from my mouth, and I announced them;     then suddenly I did them, and they came to pass. 4 Because I know that you are obstinate,     and your neck is an iron sinew     and your forehead brass, 5 I declared them to you from of old,…

  • and new things I now declare – 3

    Advent 3 For those unfamiliar with Liturgical seasons like Advent, its most significant impact may be a calendar of study of appropriate scheduled scriptures. During Advent we celebrate the incarnation of Jesus, the Messiah who would have been well familiar with seasons celebrated in scripture and we celebrate the continuity of the Light of Christmas by…