Faith-full Follow-Ups

      There is a man looking for a parking spot on a busy holiday weekend. He believes he has finally found a place to park all he has to do is get there before anyone else does. He drives around to the parking spot only to see someone else quickly pull in and take it.  The steam is practically poured from this man’s ears. His face is now beat read and contorted. With clenched fists he beats on the steering wheel of his car as he spews out a litany of profanity. This man is not angry because of a grand injustice, but because someone had taken his parking spot.       Meanwhile, across town, a single mother is weeping, her heart is breaking for her child, whose dreams had just been shattered by a cruel twist of fate. Her son has just died when a stray bullet struck her son as he was playing at the local playground. Her soul is crushed and she is furious that her child's life was taken because of the wicked actions of others.     These are...

Jonah sermon series      Have you ever felt like your heart was a bit... off? Not in a physical sense, but emotionally or spiritually? We often talk about being "in sync" with someone, meaning we understand each other, our thoughts and feelings align. But what about being in sync with God? What does that look like? How can we tell if we our lives are aligned with God's will? How can we know that our attitudes and behavior is in perfect alignment with the Creator?       The great 19th-century preacher Charles Spurgeon, in his sermon "Jonah's Downhill Course," paints a vivid picture of this spiritual drift. He doesn't hold back, saying, "I do not know of any chapter in the whole Bible where there is more conspicuously displayed the contrast between the human and the divine, between man's heart and God's heart, than in the story of Jonah." Spurgeon highlights how Jonah's actions and attitudes were a stark contrast to God's characte...