Church Is Messy: Jonah Week 6 - Unrelenting Grace
Rick and Svea close out Jonah talking about traps, windows and mirrors, God's judgement in the Old Testament, and how we can apply the themes of Jonah to life after elections (this episode was recorded on Election Day, 2024). Ultimately, it boils down to this week's sermon topic: Unrelenting Grace.
Topics discussed in this Episode:
Topics discussed in this Episode:
- 00:00 Intro
- 01:22 Election Day banter.
- 02:46 A pastoral encouragement about election anxiety.
- 05:09 Keep looking up - keep your eyes fixed on God.
- 07:06 The early Church.
- 09:53 Like Jonah, we all have traps we fall into when we find our security, significance, or satisfaction in something other than Jesus.
- 11:21 Do we see Jonah as a window or as a mirror? Perhaps the book is a window and the man is a mirror.
- 13:25 What do we fixate on when an idol is being messed with? For Rick it's organizing shoes, for Svea it's organizing closets. Instead, what needs to happen is to get honest with God and tell him how we're feeling.
- 18:17 What about...judgement in the Old Testament.
- 21:19 Jonah doesn't want God to be good toward other people, only to his people.
- 22:37 What can we apply from Jonah as we move into the weeks and months following the elections?
- 27:40 Jonah doesn't have a completely satisfying ending. There's no closure. But that's part of its genius.
- 30:45 A prayer.
