grace from jonah 1

Karl Barth was right when he termed God’s grace his great “nevertheless.”

When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.

I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come ...