The Country of Switzerland has become known for being a nation that remains neutral in the midst of international conflict. This is such a well known fact that the term “Switzerland” has become a synonym for the term “neutral.” There are many who seek to take a position of neutrality in regards to Jesus…

Hearing God’s Call: Jonah The Prophet Who Argues With God With Jonah, we get not just God’s word, but a conversation. Jeremiah also connects with God this way. BOTH were rather reluctant prophets. What is the role of a prophet? Jonah’s First Call and Failure An Ear for God: 1 Now the word of the Lord…

Jonah gives God's Word to Nineveh.

The story of Jonah continues - Jonah brings the message to the people of Nineveh, and then God's great love and mercy is displayed.

Second Call We come to this passage after Jonah had been called to preach and refused. I want you to know that studying to preach this message I read through pages of commentary that spent way too much time disputing the size of the city by the declaration that Jonah traveled a day, (NRSV) “3 So Jonah…

Jonah preaches and Nineveh repents.

The Ninevites are a wholistic (almost) picture of the nuts and bolts of repentance. They teach us that in repentance we (1) see our sin, (2) weap over our sin, (3) confess our sin, (4) hate our sin, (5) run from our sin & (6) run to Christ.

You can run but you cannot hide!

INTRO- ME/WE: Contrary! I just don’t like that/That wasn’t what I was thinking Why are we doing this series? VALUE OF THE W.O.G. 2 TIM3.16 - “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped…

1 Then the Lord spoke to Jonah a second time: 2 “Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh, and deliver the message I have given you.” 3 This time Jonah obeyed the Lord ’s command and went to Nineveh, a city so large that it took three days to see it all. 4 On the day Jonah entered the city, he shouted…