Jonah: Submitting to God’s will

JP: Outline for our Bible study this Wednesday (9/24)

Jonah’s helplessness (Jonah 2:1-3)
Jonah’s prayer (2:4-7)
Jonah’s repentance (2:8-9)
Jonah’s deliverance (2:10)

Clever outline of book of Jonah (from my study this week!):

Chapter 1: “I won’t go”
Chapter 2: “OK, I’ll go”
Chapter 3: “Here I am”
Chapter 4: “I knew I shouldn’t have gone”

Thought question: What was Jonah thinking about during this [...]

“Criminal News”: “the terrible Baptist sect”

JP: We need to both thank the Lord for the religious liberties we enjoy and pray for our brothers and sisters who experience persecution.
Scriptural perspective:

I Timothy 2:1,2, “Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in [...]