It is very easy to divide our world between the two categories of "us" and "them". We lionize those who belong to our camp, and demonize those who belong to any other. The book of Jonah addresses and pushes against the human, and even Christian, tendency to do this. The book is all about, as the ESV Bible says, "a God of boundless compassion not just for 'us' but also for 'them' ". In this sermon on Jonah 1:1-3, we examine Jonah, his mission, his rejection of that call, and his subsequent descent.

June 12, 2022

Helpful resources that shaped and influenced this sermon: ESV Study Bible; Exalting Jesus in Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk by Eric Redmond, Bill Curtis, and Ken Fentress; The Jesus Storybook Bible by Sally Lloyd-Jones; Jonah Bible Book Overview Video by Bible Project; The Message of Jonah by Rosemary Nixon; The Prodigal Prophet by Tim Keller