by Paul Tan | Mar 16, 2021 | Faith
The book of Jonah opens like an adventure story of modern movies. Our hero Jonah denies his holy task, jumps onto a ship to get far away from the presence of God. As the vessel sails, a storm arises and all his shipmates (who worship a myriad of other gods) together...
by Paul Tan | Mar 14, 2021 | Faith
I wonder how it’s like to stay 3 days and 3 nights in the belly of a big fish. I’m trying to imagine the size of this fish or whale, that can take in a full grown man, not actively digest him, and survive on what else it’s got to ingest for that...
by Paul Tan | Mar 13, 2021 | Faith
The city of Nineveh in the Book of Jonah had a population of 120,000 and a cityscape which took 3 days to walk across. Using Singapore as a reference, that’s about the number of people living in Toa Payoh, and a slightly smaller district size. Now if you were to...
by Paul Tan | Mar 12, 2021 | Faith
It amazes me that as human as we are, filled with insecurities, fears, anger and more, God can still use us. Jonah was an angry man – he lived angry, talked angry and when you read the book of Jonah, it’s easy to imagine that he also walked angry. And yet...