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Cindy’s 5th grade class was assigned to present an object lesson. She brought her goldfish to school and made her ...

Solar Eclipse Preceded Jonah's visit to Nineveh. What's not mentioned in the book of Jonah but is recorded in Assyria's historical record and is known to NASA and modern astronomers is that before ...

British poet William Ernest Henley published a short poem that expressed one way to cope with life’s circumstances.  The poem ...

Jonah hated Nineveh; he did not want its reconciliation with God; he wanted its destruction. So, he sails away on a ship. When a storm comes, the crew and passengers pray to their gods for ...

God tells Jonah to let the city of Nineveh know that God will destroy it for its sinfulness. Jonah doesn’t want to, for whatever reason, so he flees to a ship.

God asked Jonah, if he took pity on the kikayon plant, for which he did not work, nor make it grow and it perished after one day, how could God not take pity on the great city of Nineveh with more ...

Jonah is told by God, “Set out for the great city of Nineveh, and preach against it; their wickedness has come before me.” Jonah is told to get the Ninevites to repent; if they don’t repent ...

Jonah hurries to tell Nineveh that it’s doomed. But the city repents, and God forgives the people, which frustrates the prophet — after all, why all the drama if nothing was going to happen?