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"If you read the Bible from cover to cover you realize that it narrates (proclaims!) a true and cohesive story: the good news that through Jesus Christ God has entered history to liberate and renew the world from its bondage to sin and suffering. This is the story of God, who pursues the restoration of his creation at the cost of his own life. He is making all things new (Rev 21:5)! That’s the simple and yet profound, life- and world-altering plotline of the Bible.”
~Michael R. Emlet~
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Here is blog entitled, "God Pursues"
Here is a blog post about Jonah entitled, "Pursued by God with Passionate Love," and here are a couple of excerpts:
"In spite of Jonah’s faults, God still loved him with a relentless, passionate love. And so God continued to pursue Jonah. And as one peels away the layers of an onion, so God began to peel away the layers of misdirected love in Jonah’s life."
"Jonah has changed. Now Jonah, even while he was still inside the fish, was praying and believing and following God. And after three days, the fish vomited Jonah onto dry ground. In a way, Jonah was back from the dead."
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