Jonah and Me (Jonah 1-2)

MOTIVATE Walk The Line – scene 8 “songs that save”   Johnny Cash makes his first audition to the legendary record producer Sam Phillips with a couple of friends by singing a tired old gospel song from his childhood. They aren’t allowed to finish. “Hold on. Hold on. I hate to interrupt, but do you…

Are we Jonah?

Jonah heard God’s call but instead of obeying he rebelled. He tried to run 1000+ miles away from Nineveh, “away from the presence of the Lord” (1:3 twice; 1:10). He went down[1] to Joppa, found a ready ship and paid the fare to leave, going down into the ship to lay down to sleep. Talk…

LIVE 10: Marriage Matters (Exodus 20:14)

MOTIVATE Nathaniel Hawthorne tells the fictional story in 17th Century Boston, then a Puritan settlement, of a lady named Hester Prynne. She had committed a crime of passion with an adulterous affair resulting in a little child, to be named Pearl. Hester Prynne would be imprisoned for a time and then sentenced to wear a…