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

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British poet William Ernest Henley published a short poem that expressed one way to cope with life’s circumstances.  The poem ...

God asked Jonah, if he took pity on the kikayon plant, for which he did not work, nor make it grow and it perished after one day, how could God not take pity on the great city of Nineveh with more ...

Jonah was spewed out by the great fish and he washed up on the shore. Then he was obedient to God and he went to Nineveh to proclaim a message of repentance: And Jonah began to enter the city on the ...

Jonah mulled over the similarities between his current situation and that of Noah’s, long ago. “After the great Flood , Noah had sent out a dove from the ark to check on the water level ...