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Tag: jonah

  • Finding God in our second chances #sermon #jonah

    There aren’t too many people who know exactly what Jonah experienced in the guts of that fish. And there aren’t too many people who can appreciate what it feels like to be spewed out of a fish onto the dry land. In a metaphorical sense, in a figurative sense, many of us can perhaps understand…

  • Praying from the belly of a fish. #sermon #exile

    How do you pray from the belly of a fish? At one level it’s a pretty basic biological question – and a basic biological problem. In the belly of a fish, there isn’t any air. In the belly of a fish, you’re wedged in tight, unable to breath. In the belly of a fish, you…

  • fear and faith appearance (Jonah Series 2/8)

    The boat is heaving on the waves – at one moment riding high on the crest of a wave – and the next moment plunging downward into a great trough. Water is coming across the bow and into the boat. Everyone on board is soaked and exhausted. Everyone is afraid. And then, all of a…