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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 ...

Jonah sounds like kind of a bummer of a guy leading a bummer of a life. Simancas, however, forgave the whale and found the whole thing inspiring. No shade to the bible, but that seems like the ...

The Book of Jonah is one of my favorite books in the Bible. Because of what is happening in the Middle East right now, the Book of Jonah is especially relevant to us today. Jonah is not a children ...

In the Bible, Jonah never agrees he’s erred. God relents, but Jonah never does. “I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love,” Jonah complains ...

The principal character in this small prophecy is Jonah, son of Amittai. We read of him in 2 Kings 14:25, in which the additional information is given that he was from Gath-hepher, in the ...