For being only four chapters long, the Book of Jonah packs quite a punch. Jonah was called by God to take a message to  Nineveh (modern Mosul in Iraq) but ran away instead.  He thought he could escape on a boat bound for Tarshish, which was about a thousand miles in the wrong direction.  Of course the […]

“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased. Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll— I have come to do your will, O God.’”(Psalm 40:6-8, from the Septuagint translation. Attributed to Jesus in […]