Prayer – Relating Our Life of Prayer to The Tabernacle

Kierkegaard Prayer Does not Change God It Changes the One Who Offers It

Finally, Prayer is not meant to change God, who is immutable, not of shifting shadow. Prayer is meant to change us. We are as shifting shadows, “14Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. “

Reflections on Jonah: God’s Mercy

Jonah Under the Vine, Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd .... should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more then sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand 280-290 CE, marble, late Roman, Asia Minor, Cleveland Museum of Art, thoughtsofgod, thoughts of God, mythoughts, David Reese

I recently went though the book of Jonah to see what God might have to say. I have started by simply drawing the story down to an outline of text. God, יְהוָ֔ה – Yhvh, begins the story by speaking to His servant, Jonah, telling him to goto Nineveh, the capital of Assyria. Jonah flees in […]