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When Rescue Looks Like Ruin

Jonah • Week 3

Sometimes God's rescue does not initially look like rescue.

Jonah 1:17-2:10 (ESV) • Pastor Rob McDowell

Here's the reframe worth sitting with: Jonah isn't rescued from the fish; he's rescued by the fish. It's not the punishment. It's the provision. His prayer from inside it reads less like a plea to get out and more like gratitude for not drowning.

Sunday, September 13

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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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"The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time." Grace doesn't just forgive our past. It gives us another step. Jonah 3:1-10.

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