I feel like I’m not alone in saying the last year has been pretty crazy. Our whole world has been thrown for a loop, people’s jobs have been radically changed or even lost, and quarantine has isolated people further than the internet already had. Honestly, there seemed to be more darkness hanging over the last twelve months than most any other time I can remember.

For me, work came home and went remote. The search for a church home in Columbus...

My friend lost her Bible at church last week after an outdoor service. When she went back to find it, she didn’t. It was gone. She checked lost and found the next week. Not there. Then, the cover turned up. It had been placed on the recycling bun. It appeared to have been ripped from the spine! The guts were nowhere to be found.

The Bible had been a present from her sister. It had all her underlines and notes. It...

There are seasons where everything feels hard.

They come and go.

In the best seasons, you think this joy will never end.

In the worst seasons, you think this sorrow will never end.

And sometimes in the worst seasons, you can convince yourself that evil will actually win.

It’s an easy trap of the Devil to convince us that our current circumstances will certainly be our future circumstances.

Next week will be one year since this season of pandemic and uncertainty began for me.

In some ways...

There may be no more misunderstood book of the Bible than Jonah. We know that Jonah was a prophet. We know that Jonah lives for three days in the belly of a huge fish. We even know that Jonah’s message to the Ninevites prompted them all to repent and believe in the God of Israel. What we don’t seem to know is that the Book of Jonah is hilarious.

And not unintentionally hilarious. Jonah, by all accounts, seems to be written...