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Is God going to ask for more than you can give?

If that question has ever made you keep God at arm’s length, with your money, your time or your plans, this is for you. We’re starting a three-week series on stewardship, not with a budget or a giving appeal, but with the most famous verse in the Bible and what it says about the kind of giver God is.

No guilt trip. Just a better picture of God.

Jonah watched an entire city turn to God, and it made him furious. In the final week of our series, we look at what happens when God’s mercy exposes our lack of mercy and confronts our pride. If God saved the person who hurt you most, would you feel joy or anger? Jonah’s story ends on a question, and Jesus is the answer to it.

Part of our series “The Relentless Mercy of God.” Learn more and plan a visit at https://kingscrossorlando.com.

What would it take for an entire city to turn to God? In Jonah 3, one reluctant prophet delivers a simple message, and an entire city experiences an extraordinary spiritual awakening. The people repent, lives are transformed, and God's mercy triumphs over judgment. What happened in Nineveh raises a compelling question: Could God do the same in our city today? Revival cannot be manufactured, but it can be prepared for.

Life is full, busy, mostly good things. And somewhere in all of it, you stopped hearing from God. You didn't mean to. You just kept moving.

Jonah kept moving too, until he ended up three days in the belly of a fish.

"I called out to the Lord, out of my distress, and he answered me." — Jonah 2:2

Most people read that fish as punishment, but it's really a mercy

If life has stopped you in your tracks and you're wondering where God is in it, start here.

Say "the fear of God" and most people picture fire, brimstone, and a God waiting to strike. No wonder we'd rather talk about something else.

"At this the men greatly feared the LORD." — Jonah 1:16

A boat full of sailors who had never prayed to Israel's God ended up understanding him better than the prophet on board. What they found in that storm wasn't terror.

If God has ever felt either frightening or too small to matter, start here.

You know the story about the guy and the big fish. Most people stop there.

But before the fish, there's a man running from God as fast as he can, and a God who won't stop coming after him.

"Go to the great city of Nineveh." — Jonah 1:2

Jonah went the other way. What chased him down wasn't anger.

If you've ever run from God, or wondered whether he'd still come after you, start here.

Maybe it was a person. Maybe it was a marriage, a career, or the life you thought you'd have by now. We all do whatever we can to keep loss away from us — and it still finds us.

Four days after her brother's burial, a grieving woman meets Jesus on the road and tells him he came too late. His answer is either the emptiest thing ever said at a graveside, or the most hopeful.

Part of our series "Seeing Jesus." Learn more and plan a visit at https://kingscrossorlando.com.

You'd say Jesus comes first. But your calendar, your money, and the one thing you'd fight God to keep tell a different story: Jesus and this, and this, and this.

Matt Hartman walks through Paul's staggering claim that everything — every credential, every relationship, every success — is loss next to the surpassing worth of knowing Christ. Not because Jesus is possessive, but because he loves you too much to share you.

You prayed. You asked for help from the one person you know can actually fix it. And then nothing happened. A day. A week. A year.

John 11 says that when Jesus heard his friend Lazarus was dying, "he stayed where he was two more days." Then he says something stranger still: "For your sake I am glad I was not there."

Either Jesus doesn't care as much as you were told — or the delay is doing something you can't see yet.

If you're in the waiting right now, start here.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how sure are you that you'd be welcomed into heaven if you died today? Whatever number you just picked, you picked it for a reason.

Jesus says: "No one will snatch them out of my hand."

That promise either holds on the days you fail, or it was never worth much to begin with. The people standing in front of him when he said it reached for stones.

If you've spent years quietly wondering whether you've finally gone too far, start here.