Jonah Week 6: Gracious and Merciful

This is the final sermon in a Lenten series on the Sign of Jonah Text: Jonah 4   Matthew 12:38-41 We have come to the end of a long journey with Jonah. It’s been an interesting though rough one hasn’t it? Running from God’s call, Jonah hopped a boat to Tarshish. God sent a storm on [...]

Jonah Week 5: Meanwhile On The Other Side of Town

For what seems like almost all of my life, I have been in love with the Old Testament. It started when I was a child with all the wonderful bible stories about David, Noah, Abraham and Sarah, Adam and Eve, and Jonah, too. To me, there seemed to be tremendous grace in the Old Testament. [...]

Jonah Week 4: Jonah is a Short Preacher

This is part of a sermon series on the Sign of Jonah Text: Jonah 3:1-4 Typically, I do not like to start my sermons with a joke, but one of our parishioners told me this last week and it made me think of Jonah. A burglar breaks into a house when no one is home [...]

Jonah Week 3: Prayers From the Belly of the Fish

This is part of a Lenten sermon series on the Sign of Jonah Text: Jonah 1:17-2:10 I have been hounded by dogs this week. It seemed that everywhere I turned there was something about dogs. Last Wednesday, we talked about the poem “The Hound of Heaven” where the writer describes God’s relentless pursuit of us [...]

Jonah Week 2: God Is Persistent

This is part of a Lenten sermon series on The Sign of Jonah Text: Jonah 1:-1-16  Jonah left us with several questions last week, didn’t he? Last Wednesday, Jonah had received his call from God to go to Nineveh to be a prophet once again. But Jonah kept hitting the ignore button on his cell [...]