Jonah Week 1

We run from God whenever we decide our way is better than His.

Jonah 1:1-3 (ESV) · Pastor Daniel Hicks

We meet Jonah, hear God's assignment, and watch him head in the opposite direction, fast. It'd be easy to make this a simple "obey or else" story, but that's not the real issue. Jonah's problem isn't logistics. He doesn't want what God wants. His refusal comes from a deeper place: he wants the right to decide who deserves mercy.

Sunday, August 30

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Jonah ran from God, and God pursued him anyway. Over five weeks, we're walking through the book of Jonah: a runaway prophet, a storm, a fish, a city that shouldn't have gotten a second chance, and a God who won't let go of any of them.

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Jonah's asleep. The sailors are terrified and praying. Sometimes God disrupts what's comfortable to rescue what's dying in Jonah 1:4-16.

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When God Says Go