The Gospel According to Yeeks

As part of our hermeneutics course in church, I was given this as an assignment. Reading But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. And he prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster. Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.” And the Lord said, “Do you do well to be angry?” Jonah went out of the city and sat to the east of the city and made a booth for himself there. He sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city. Now the Lord God appointed a plant and made it come up over Jonah,that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant. But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that a

“May we sit at the foot of the cross; and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done.” - John Newton

We have been running this for a number of years but I am just as excited about this year's edition as I am for the previous years. Excited for the speakers we have lined up, excited for the topics we are going to be dealing with and excited that we get to spend a few days as a community together. We hope that God will be glorified in this and that the Word will shape our lives as we come and examine it together. Poster done by Kiyoko

“For when Christ is preached, and the promises which God hath made in Christ are believed, the Spirit entereth the heart, and looseth the heart, and giveth lust to do the law, and maketh the law a lively thing in the heart.” (William Tyndale)

“Not withstanding that the resurrection is a future event, he shows that it happens every day; for when God raises up again a man whose life is despaired of, and who has been brought to the very gates of hell, He shows nothing other than a resurrection, snatching from the very jaws of death the one who had fallen into them.”