Series
A study through the book of Jonah that keeps asking one question: why does God's mercy extend farther than we want it to?
Start with Those Who ClingJonah 2:1-10
Jonah's prayer from inside the fish shows what spiritual transformation requires. Jonah had real faith, but his faith was fitted to his old world and not yet ready for God's call to Nineveh. Jonah 2:8-9 gives the frame:…
Jonah 3:1-4:5
Jonah names two sources of violence: Nineveh's brutal paganism and Jonah's moralistic religion. God refuses both. He does not excuse Nineveh, and he does not excuse Jonah's anger. The way forward is forgiveness that has…