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You know the story about the guy and the big fish. Most people stop there.
But before the fish, there's a man running from God as fast as he can, and a God who won't stop coming after him.
"Go to the great city of Nineveh." — Jonah 1:2
Jonah went the other way. What chased him down wasn't anger.
If you've ever run from God, or wondered whether he'd still come after you, start here.

Maybe it was a person. Maybe it was a marriage, a career, or the life you thought you'd have by now. We all do whatever we can to keep loss away from us — and it still finds us.
Four days after her brother's burial, a grieving woman meets Jesus on the road and tells him he came too late. His answer is either the emptiest thing ever said at a graveside, or the most hopeful.
Part of our series "Seeing Jesus." Learn more and plan a visit at https://kingscrossorlando.com.

You'd say Jesus comes first. But your calendar, your money, and the one thing you'd fight God to keep tell a different story: Jesus and this, and this, and this.
Matt Hartman walks through Paul's staggering claim that everything — every credential, every relationship, every success — is loss next to the surpassing worth of knowing Christ. Not because Jesus is possessive, but because he loves you too much to share you.

You prayed. You asked for help from the one person you know can actually fix it. And then nothing happened. A day. A week. A year.
John 11 says that when Jesus heard his friend Lazarus was dying, "he stayed where he was two more days." Then he says something stranger still: "For your sake I am glad I was not there."
Either Jesus doesn't care as much as you were told — or the delay is doing something you can't see yet.
If you're in the waiting right now, start here.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how sure are you that you'd be welcomed into heaven if you died today? Whatever number you just picked, you picked it for a reason.
Jesus says: "No one will snatch them out of my hand."
That promise either holds on the days you fail, or it was never worth much to begin with. The people standing in front of him when he said it reached for stones.
If you've spent years quietly wondering whether you've finally gone too far, start here.

Maybe it was a pastor. Maybe it was a whole church. Either way, something happened — andever since, you've quietly wondered whether God is anything like the people who claim tospeak for him.
Jesus says: "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep."
But no shepherd plans to die. A dead shepherd is a disaster for the sheep. So either Jesusmisunderstood the job, or he came to do something no shepherd has ever done.
If church has ever cost you something, start here.

You've prayed the same prayer for years and nothing moved. Somewhere in there you stopped expecting it to.
"This happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him." — Jesus, John 9:3
A man born blind went home seeing. Nobody disputed it. His neighbors, his parents, and the religious leaders each found a way not to believe it anyway.
If you've quietly given up on God doing anything in your life, start here.
 
Part of our series "Seeing Jesus". Learn more and plan a visit at https://kingscrossorlando.com

You prayed the prayer. You show up on Sundays. If a form asked, you'd check the box.
Then Jesus looks at a room of people who had just believed in him and says, "You belong to your father, the devil."
That's either the harshest thing a religious teacher has ever said, or the most loving warning you'll ever get. He doesn't leave it there — he gives them five ways to tell the difference.
If you've ever quietly wondered whether your faith is the real thing, don't listen to this with anxious ears. Start here.

You've read the books. You've taken the personality tests. Maybe you've paid for the therapy and the retreat. And you still can't answer the question underneath all of it: why am I the way I am? Jesus said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness." That's either the most arrogant sentence ever spoken, or the most important one. The people who heard him say it in person decided it was the first. If you've ever felt like you're feeling your way through your own life in the dark, start here.

For centuries astronomers couldn't get the math to work. They kept adjusting the orbits, adding correction after correction, and the model still fell apart — because nobody thought to question what was sitting at the center. A lot of us are doing the same thing with our lives.
Psalm 16 is a song David wrote while his life was in real danger, and it makes a claim about what belongs at the center of a human life. Whatever you put there sets the orbit of everything else — your marriage, your kids, your work, the way you see yourself and other people. Put the wrong thing there and life starts to wobble, so you add more control, more effort, more coping, and it still never quite sits right. David gives three reasons God belongs at the center: He is our greatest good, our greatest help, and our greatest joy. Then comes the catch — you can't re-center your own life by trying harder. Something has to move in and take that place.