The book of Jonah is just a story about a man who runs from God and gets eaten by a fish, right? Wrong. For Michael's devotional tonight he talked about all the symbolism, for shadowing and powerful lessons that the book of Jonah has to offer.
Capturing the awesomeness of God in words is a struggle as old as time. For Colton's devotional tonight he expounded on Psalms 65 to attempt to capture some of the majesty of our God and the enormity of his grace love and mercy.
When Jesus was resurrected from the dead, he didn't just appear to his closest followers, he appeared before hundreds of people. For Matt's message tonight he talked about the powerful and undeniable way that God gives us assurance of our faith. Through the eyewitness accounts of his return and through the certainty of action of those who were there that day, we also can be bolstered in our faith and certain of the truth of our creator God.
As Jesus hung on the cross, he called out a reference to Psalm 22, the Psalm written long before Jesus's time that foreshadowed Jesus's crucifixion. For Kevin's devotional tonight he talked about the darkness of that verse but also the dramatic pivot to hope that follows it. In that moment Jesus claimed the entire Psalm and marked the victory that his sacrifice achieved for all of us.
Jesus claimed to be the "cornerstone the builders rejected" but was he simply saying he was a key part of the church or is there more to this? For Drew's devotional tonight, he talked about the context for this metaphor and also the deeper meaning of Christ's role as the cornerstone of church and also of our lives.