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Severe Compassion: The Gospel according to Nahum is unavailable, but you can change that!

Gregory Cook helps readers navigate the book of Nahum, a poetic masterpiece that teaches about God’s love for his adulterous people. As the prophet Nahum teaches, God’s passionate love threatens all our other loves. When we find God boring and the world fascinating, we commit the sin of rebellion—but God, with severe compassion, refuses to abandon us when we stray into destructive paths....

will declare the fulfillment of promises spoken by earlier prophets. The next two words establish the subject of this prophecy. The book concerns Nineveh, the capital city of the Assyrian Empire. Nineveh had not always been Assyria’s capital. For most of Assyria’s history, the city of Asshur filled this role. Nineveh was an ancient city mentioned in Genesis 10:11, but it had limited importance to Assyria for most of its history. Then a series of unexpected events changed the fate of Nineveh, making
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