Teaching by Book: Jonah
Jonah: God’s Relentless Mercy for All People, Part 4
Our anger will rob us of our intimacy with God. Our call is to embrace God’s love for all people and His sovereign plan for justice and mercy.
Watch / ListenJonah: God’s Relentless Mercy for All People, Part 3
What are we willing to endure or experience to respond to God’s call to love people and proclaim His name? When God provides the door, we are called walk through it and share the truth of the gospel, leaving the results to Him.
Watch / ListenJonah: God’s Relentless Mercy for All People, Part 2
After facing the storm, Jonah acknowledged God’s authority and His relentless mercy, embraced His discipline, and chose to obey. Do we do the same?
Watch / ListenJonah: God’s Relentless Mercy for All People, Part 1
Our lives are a series of choices that are either obedience or disobedience. God calls us into relationship with Him, calls us to love each other, and calls us to take the Gospel to those around us.
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Faith, Hope, and Love – Part 4
We will never be fully human until we learn to fully love. According to Jesus, that includes loving both our neighbors and our enemies.
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Revolutionary Love, Part 4
Love is always on mission, but prejudice interrupts that mission. You cannot love anyone fully if there is any prejudice in your heart toward them for any reason.
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Getting to Know Scripture, Part 1
After His resurrection, Jesus rebuked two of His disciples for disbelief and "interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself" (Luke 24:27). The Old Testament is full of prophecy, foreshadowing, and models that point to the Messiah who was to come, all of which should build our faith in Him and the Bible that speaks of Him.
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Taking God Seriously, Part 4
How often do we allow our personal prejudices and biases dictate how we view – and treat – other people? As Pastor Mike teaches through the final chapter of Jonah, we see that to take God seriously, we must take people seriously – even when they are different than we are.
Watch / ListenTaking God Seriously, Part 3
Obedience is a key part of the Christian life, and God enables us in whatever He has called us to. It is not our purpose as Christ-followers to pass moral judgement on the world and society at-large. Rather, we are to uphold the testimony of the Gospel by holding fellow Christians accountable to obedience to the Word of God.
Watch / ListenTaking God Seriously, Part 2
Jonah needed some dramatic encounters with God’s all-knowing, all-powerful presence to take Him seriously – including being swallowed alive by a great fish. Such divine discipline is painful, but God can use it to bring us closer to Him and to prepare us for greater ministry.
Watch / ListenTaking God Seriously, Part 1
The story of Jonah is about a man who knows God and has sound theology, but does not take Him seriously. In this way, the story of Jonah is really the story of our lives. We are more fearful of those who might find out about the hidden aspects of our lives rather than the One who already knows. All sin can be traced back to not taking God seriously.
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