Jonah

Luke 3:1-6
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate
was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother
Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of
Abilene, ²  during the high-priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of
God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness. ³  He went into all the
region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the
forgiveness of sins,  ⁴  as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet
Isaiah, ‘The voice of one crying out in the wilderness:
“Prepare the way of the Lord,
    make his paths straight.
⁵  Every valley shall be filled,
    and every mountain and hill shall be made low,
and the crooked shall be made straight,
    and the rough ways made smooth;
⁶  and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.”’

Our new sermon series opens with a challenge: do you really know the stories you THINK you know? The story we are "diving" into is the story of Jonah and the Big Fish.

Jonah runs the moment God calls him. God tells him to preach repentance in Nineveh, the capital of Israel's fiercest enemy, and Jonah bolts for a ship heading the opposite direction. A storm nearly sinks the whole crew, and desperate sailors cast lots to find the cause — landing squarely on Jonah. Jonah asks the sailors to throw him overboard, expecting death, and a great fish swallows him instead. But that's not the end of the story...

Jonah

Jonah: Chapter 1

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