Cindy’s 5th grade class was assigned to present an object lesson. She brought her goldfish to school and made her ...

The second thing Jonah clarifies to me is that we don’t always have to like everything to be faithful. Chapter four ends with Jonah so mad, he tells God he would rather die.

This is where the word “but” came in. “But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard ...

But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish, away ...

But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with ...

Tarshish. It’s interesting that Jonah was a passenger aboard that ship as he attempted to duck out on an assignment from God to preach in Nineveh. The book of “Jonah” describes how the ship was tossed ...

The crew of Jonah’s ship are “Joe,” “Jack,” and “Harry.” The interview between the Captain and Jonah is conducted in the American idiom of the time.