Jonah

There’s a tendency in us to run from the leadership of God, and there’s a tendency in God to chase after us. We love that about Him when it involves us or people we like, but what about when that same grace is extended to our enemies?

The grace of God is powerful enough to save anyone. The heart of God is compassionate enough to want to. In the third part of our series on Jonah, Ben Stuart invites us to understand better what the heart of God is like. God never counts people out. In compassion, He moves toward the hurting. He dives into the depths and rescues the lost, and He doesn’t stop there! He uses our pain as a platform to invite us into His rescue mission. God used Jonah’s biggest embarrassment for his biggest ministry, and He can do the same with us. We don’t have to have mountains of wisdom; we just have to need God to share how His grace met us in our mess.

There’s a tendency in God to chase us and give us life, not because of something beautiful in us; but because of something beautiful in Him. That’s the thing about a gift. Whether you feel worthy or not doesn’t matter. God’s love is not motivated by or contingent upon your worthiness, after all, grace is when undeserving people receive an unbelievable gift from an unobligated giver. In part two of our series on Jonah, Ben Stuart walks us through the gift that is the grace of God and how we can honor Him by enjoying the gift.

Fixed points are the only things that we can really use to find our bearings. In this message from Ben Stuart, we are kicking off a new series looking at the journey of Jonah. In the story of Jonah, we can find two fixed realities to help us know the direction God is wanting us to head, and we must, for the storms are coming and without the proper directions we will not make it through.