I’ve always struggled with this reading, and the call to the first disciples to become ‘catchers of people.’ The ‘people’ bit I get, of course. Everyone I’ve ever spoken to about call to ministry in the church sees it as a …
A man surviving in a large fish’s gut is easy to believe compared to this part of the story! Jonah, on the second attempt, responds faithfully to God’s call and proclaims his message of judgement in the heart of Nineveh, the …
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Do you suffer from spiritual vertigo? It seems to me that this is what the psalmist is suffering from here. Clearly he (or she?) has an overwhelming sense of God’s shaping of his life and being even before his birth. …
1 Samuel 3:1-10 Now here is a reading with an easy message. Not a message that is easy to live up to, but one that is easy to spot. As children of God we need, like Samuel, to be ready …
