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	Title	Date	Speaker
	A Great Story	Sep 12, 2010	Ajay Thomas
Audio Download Scripture: Jonah 4:9-11 Speaker: Ajay Thomas Date: September 12, 2010 Jonah has been a book full of surprises and unexpected turns. It ends in the same way. The book concludes with God asking Jonah a question to which there is no response, no reply, no answer. The reader is left wondering, "what ever happens to Jonah? Does he get it? How will he answer?" Yet, a closer look reveals that the bigger question is what will happen to us? Do we get it? How will we answer? Today we conclude our series through Jonah and consider this great story and ours as well.
	A Greater Jonah	Sep 5, 2010	Siby Varghese
Audio Download Scripture: Matthew 12:38-42 Speaker: Siby Varghese Date: September 5, 2010 If you read the story of Jonah, his failures and flaws leave you wishing for a better prophet to fulfill God's mission. You're left longing for a better Jonah. Though it will take hundreds of years before this longing is fulfilled, it is fulfilled in the person and work of Jesus! Jesus, like Jonah, a prophet from Galilee, arrives on the scene and is better than Jonah in every way. Where Jonah despises God's call to save a sinful people, Jesus obeys God's call to save a sinful people. Where Jonah causes a great storm at sea, Jesus calms a great storm at sea. Where Jonah is saved and stands outside of the city hoping that it perishes, Jesus enters the city knowing that He will perish so that the city might be saved. In Jesus, we truly get a greater Jonah!
	A Great God	Aug 29, 2010	Ajay Thomas
Audio Download Scripture: Jonah 4:5-8 Speaker: Ajay Thomas Date: August 29, 2010 Jonah has finished preaching to the great city of Nineveh. Mission accomplished. Now he can finally go home - but he doesn't. Instead he builds a shelter outside the city and waits to see what would become of it. Perhaps their repentance will be short-lived. Perhaps God will destroy the city after all. Even now, Jonah doesn't have God's heart for the city. And so God pursues the prophet's heart through a vine, a worm, and the wind. God displays His great power in ruling over all of His creation to accomplish His great purposes and fulfill His great plans. Today we consider the truth that God great and God is sovereign. His invisible hand is at work throughout Jonah and through history accomplishing His will for His glory and our good.
	A Great Hypocrisy	Aug 22, 2010	Ajay Thomas
Audio Download Scripture: Jonah 4:1-4 Speaker: Ajay Thomas Date: August 22, 2010 The last chapter of Jonah takes an unexpected turn. While God is exceedingly pleased and happy with Nineveh's repentance, Jonah is exceedingly displeased and angry. The prophet's heart looks nothing like the heart of the God. Jonah is grateful for God's mercy and compassion when it is extended to him. Yet when it is poured out on Nineveh, Jonah despises God. Jonah is a hypocrite. There's more Gospel work than needs to happen in Jonah's heart - and ours.
	A Great Hatred	Aug 15, 2010	Siby Varghese
Audio Download Scripture: Jonah 4:1-4 Speaker: Siby Varghese Date: August 15, 2010 At the end of Jonah 3, the vilest, meanest, wickedest city on the plant repents and turns to God. Revival breaks out in the city from the greatest to the least, from the king to the commoner. So you would expect that chapter 4 begins with a party hosted by Jonah celebrating the mercy of God and the success of his mission. Instead, you read that Jonah is angry - angry enough to die. Jonah hates Nineveh and hates that God would be merciful to them. For Jonah, God belongs to us, not them. Grace and mercy are fine if it's being poured out on his people, but it is despised if it is poured out on those people. God is still working on Jonah and his racist, exclusivist heart. God has redeemed the city, but there's more to redeem in Jonah!
	A Great Change	Aug 8, 2010	Ajay Thomas
Audio Download Scripture: Jonah 3:1-10 Speaker: Ajay Thomas Date: August 8, 2010 Picture the man standing in the middle of the city with the cardboard sign. The one who's screaming about the end of the world and the coming judgment and the need for people to repent and turn to God. What do we do with that guy? We ignore him, or brush past him, or mock him. His message is hardly ever heard or taken seriously. Yet in Jonah 3, the prophet goes to the metropolitan city of Nineveh, preaches a 5 word sermon about coming doom, and the entire city repents! Revival breaks out in the city from the greatest to the least, from the king to the commoner. God accomplishes a great change in the city and does so through an unlikely messenger. Today the city of Nineveh gives us a good look at repentance and what it is and what it is not.
	A Great City	Aug 1, 2010	Ajay Thomas
Audio Download Scripture: Jonah 3:1-3 Speaker: Ajay Thomas Date: August 1, 2010 Jonah's story has three major players. The leading role is played by God. In supporting cast, you have Jonah the prophet and the city that he has been called on mission to. This week we introduce the great city of Nineveh. The city that Jonah, the religious moral man hates, but God loves. Together we'll consider our view of the city, God's view of the city, and how we might respond and relate to the city.
	A Great Fish	Jul 25, 2010	Ajay Thomas
Audio Download Scripture: Jonah 1:17-2:10 Speaker: Ajay Thomas Date: July 25, 2010 At the end of chapter one, Jonah has been tossed overboard and thrown into the raging sea. He descends to the depths. Sinking. Drowning. Dying. Jonah has been brought the end of himself. He cannot save himself. And in his helpless and hopeless state, he cries out to the Lord. He remembers God. And God saves him! The Lord appoints a great fish to play the part of a submarine for His prophet. And from there, Jonah offers a prayer of thanksgiving and praise to the God who brought him up from the pit and gave him new life.
	A Great Storm	Jul 18, 2010	Ajay Thomas
Audio Download Scripture: Jonah 1:1-16 Speaker: Ajay Thomas Date: July 18, 2010 The story of Jonah begins with a man who runs from God. Fortunately, that's not where the story ends. In God's great mercy, God pursues Jonah. He chases after him, though He does so in a ferocious fashion. God hurls a great storm at Jonah's ship and will not stop until Jonah is hurled into sea. Yet what appears as condemnation is actually God's mercy. Jonah hides but God seeks. Jonah runs but fortunately God pursues.
	A Great Sinner	Jul 11, 2010	Ajay Thomas
Audio Download Scripture: Jonah 1:1-3 Speaker: Ajay Thomas Date: July 11, 2010 The story of Jonah begins with Missio Dei - the mission of God. The merciful heart of God longs to save the sinful city of Nineveh. Nineveh was renown for it's wickedness. Yet God is renown for His mercy. And so God calls Jonah to be His missionary and deliver his message of mercy. Only, Jonah runs. He flees from the presence of the Lord and heads in the opposite direction. We are Jonah - for we too run from God in our sin. Today we consider why we run and consider our idols and the sin beneath the sin.
	A Great Gospel	Jul 4, 2010	Ajay Thomas
Audio Download Scripture: Jonah 1:1-2 Speaker: Ajay Thomas Date: July 4, 2010 Perhaps you’ve heard the story before. A man swallowed by a whale who lives to tell the tale. But here’s the thing. There is so much more to the book of Jonah. In fact, Jonah is not a story about a great fish at all. The whale is just a prop in the narrative. It’s actually a story about a great God. A gracious God who relentlessly pursues rebels. A sovereign God who rules over everything for His glory and our good. A missional God who, unlike Jonah, loves the city. A merciful God who pardons the prophet and the pagans. A patient God who seeks the self-righteous religious and the sinful irreligious alike. In entering Jonah’s story, we get a better look at God’s heart and ours as well. That’s because this story is our story. We are Jonah.