This sermon reminds us just how much God cares and lavishes grace upon us. Jonah understood God abounds in grace and mercy. For God had shown this to him powerfully across his life. Yet, Jonah didn’t feel this should be extended to the Ninevites because of his prejudice towards them. Every follower of Jesus is...
Sermon Tag: Jonah
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He Hears Our Cry | Jonah 2
This sermon encourages us to trust that God hears our cries. Jonah finds himself in a desperate place of distress in the belly of a fish. His sin and disobedience has led him here. It is from this place that he cries out to God for help. Jonah acknowledges his sin before God and repents....
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Finding God In The Storms | Jonah 1:4-17
This sermon encourages us to trust that God is working in the midst of every storm. We all experience storms in a variety of ways and for a variety of reasons in life. However, one certainty remains amongst all storms, God uses them to achieve his perfect plans. These plans and purposes aren’t always visible...
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Why Does God Ask Us To Do What He Knows We Don’t Want To | Jonah 1:1-3
Jeff starts his Jonah series by showing how we can run from Tarshish in our own lives rather than going to Nineveh as God commands. You can view the video from the sermon here: https://youtu.be/Pp7DhyAJXQ4?si=uL852z9II8ruijDF
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Jonah’s Anger, God’s Grace – Jonah 4
What makes you angry and what does that reveal about your heart? Jonah’s anger towards God for showing mercy to Nineveh shows how much hate and racism is in his heart. And yet God is a gracious God, merciful, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love and relenting in disaster – these wonderful characteristics of...
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Repentance, Repentance, Repentance – Jonah 3
In Jonah 3, Jonah repents, the people of Nineveh repent and even God repents (in a sense and said with great theological carefulness). This chapter is a call for all of us to call on God for mercy for the sins we have committed.
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The Prayer from the Soul – Jonah 2
Jonah descends into the belly of the fish, as he sinks deeper and deeper into the Earth. The belly of the fish is his grave, the belly of sheol, but miraculously Jonah survives and at last turns to God in prayer. Even from the belly of the fish, God hears and answers his prayer.
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The Disobedient Prophet – Jonah 1
Jonah is a simple and familiar story that you can teach to children in Sunday school, but it is also full of rich depth. Chapter 1 covers a whole host of themes including disobedience, God’s sovereign power over all creation, hypocrisy and more. Have a listen to the start of this 4 part series, covering...