World Magazine recently ran a review of Colin Smith’s new book Jonah: Navigating a God-Centered Life which you can read here.

Here is a quick excerpt:

“…Thinking I knew the story of Jonah cold, this book took me by surprise.  Colin Smith’s keen, heart insights extracted from this tiny Old Testament Scripture are multiple. 

Like Jonah: often believers are willing to witness little or nothing to unbelievers; often regular church-goers settle into a comfortable pew; often commandments folk neglect God’s straightforward command to minister to the Ninevehs around them; and often confessing members wallow in self-pity because of some small tragedy as opposed to the much greater tragedy of a dying world. 

These personal truths, and more, all hit home, morphing this small volume into one big probing question for the reader -  am I a self-absorbed Christian, as opposed to an interceding and compassionate Christian.   

Highly recommended for the home and church library.”

You can order this book at the Unlocking the Bible store.