Believing & Receiving God Text: Jonah 3:5-10 Pastor Curt Stapleton In the time of Jonah, as is still true today, God’s relentless grace toward wicked people produces repentance and faith, a benefit to us that comes at Christ’s expense.

Turning to God Text: Jonah 3:1-4 Pastor Curt Stapleton We can’t grow in grace without a posture of ongoing repentance. As Jonah is redeemed and recommissioned as a prophet to speak for God, we see that God’s word is still…Read more ›

Salvation Belongs to the Lord! Text: Jonah 2 Pastor Curt Stapleton During the Reformation, Luther recovered the true meaning of repentance, from “doing penance” to “making a 180 degree turn”. As Jonah turns back to God in repentance, he knows…Read more ›

God’s Great Purposes Text: Jonah 1:17 Pastor Curt Stapleton God’s sovereignty shines all though the book Jonah, as we see how He repeatedly “appointed” events in the text. Just as Jonah’s salvation was about more than himself (as he was…Read more ›

A Presumptuous Prophet and a Purposeful Savior Text: Jonah 1:4-16 Pastor Curt Stapleton Did you know that God uses sin sinlessly to accomplish His purposes? Despite Jonah’s disobedience and rebellion, we see in today’s passage the God is still at…Read more ›

Called, but Couldn’t Text: Jonah 1:1-3 Pastor Curt Stapleton All of us have a calling from the Lord on our life that we must try to discern. The prophet Jonah shows us that God often teaches and leads us by…Read more ›

The Revelation of God and His People Text: John 14:1-21 Pastor Curt Stapleton Whether in Nahum, as we were studying the last few weeks, or Isaiah or here in John’s gospel, all throughout Scripture, God is at work revealing Himself…Read more ›

The Bloody City! Text: Nahum 3 Pastor Curt Stapleton Why is the damnation and desolation of Nahum, in all its detail, recorded for us? Why do we need this in our theology bank? God’s purpose in the Scriptures is for…Read more ›

God’s Salvation for His People Text: Nahum 1:15-2:13 Pastor Curt Stapleton The message of Nahum was certainly good news to the people of Israel who first heard it. This “gospel of Nahum” demonstrates that God brings salvation to His people…Read more ›

The Wrath of God is Being Revealed from Heaven Text: Nahum 1 Pastor Curt Stapleton The wrath of God is the black velvet upon which the diamonds of God’s mercy and grace shine more brightly. Since our God is the…Read more ›