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…

God will move heaven and earth to reach you.

Introduction We all know the story of Jonah…Jonah is told, by God to prophecy to the people of Nineveh, but instead he runs away and heads on a ship to Tarshish. While he is on the ship, sleeping, God sends a storm and it starts to get violent. Jonah is woken up by the sailors and told to pray to his…

The author’s purpose was “to expose absurdity by the irony of satire,” the absurdity specifically of Jonah, who, as an arrogant isolationist, “holds the God of heaven and earth in [his] pocket, all the while making pious noises about his universal reign and the breadth of his compassion” (p. 54). It…

Talk recorded as part of the full virtual service for May 3, 2020.