jonah 2025
season 05 | 05.03 | lord, have mercy
In the final week of our Jonah series, we are confronted with God's mercy and justice. How can both be true? This seeming incompatibility was the source of Jonah's rage, bitterness, and self-righteousness. As Jonah is brought face to face with his own hypocrisy, we are invited to examine what keeps us cut off from compassion and cut off from God.
season 05 | 05.02 | can people really change?
Jonah is about more than a man being swallowed by a mystical giant fish. It is about complex themes like mercy, hate, and redemption. It’s about the parts of our heart bent toward judgement and self-righteousness and our own fallibility. It begs us to ask, "Can people really change?" We're meant to see that Jesus’ journey to the depths of hell and out the other side – his death and resurrection - is more sufficient than Jonah’s and all those who have come before him to soften our judgement, to shift our biases, to give us a new heart bent toward love and grace and compassion.
season 05 | 05.01 |who is your enemy?
In the story of Jonah, we get the familiar tale of a man swallowed by a giant fish - but before we get there, we start by looking at why it happened. It centers on the idea of the places that we love and the people that we sometimes loathe. As Jonah faces his own version of this, we also explore how Jesus handled the same question and how his answer sets his followers apart still today.