More than the belly of a whale

I've decided to preach a four-week series on Jonah at Exton in the upcoming few weeks.
Jonah's a little bit like the cousin you used to see all the time but moved away and found new hobbies and new friends: as long as he remains at a distance, you can assume you know everything about him, but once you see him again, many years later, you find out you might not know him so well.

You think you know the book of Jonah, that it's about a guy in the belly of a big fish, who sulks and mopes his way through a successful evangelistic campaign. And in a sense that is the point of the whole book. But there is much more to be mined there, much more I'm having fun discovering and wrestling with. Most of it seems to be around the idea that God is sovereign, and that when God desires to reach a person, He can do so despite infinite obstacles and objections to the contrary. It also is about the deadly cost of choosing our way over God's, and it's about humanity's never-ending desire to do just that.

Should be a good series--join us for it if you are in the Chester County area!