The Notable Podcast

Kent and Luke are here and ready to dive into 1 John 1:1-4. They get into the first verses in the book culminating with a brilliant discussion on the difference between selfish joy and joy made complete.

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The twins bring it all to a close in this final Jonah episode.  We see Jonah going down into his own personal hell.  We also see God working his will in Jonah’s life through questions.  We rejoice in an ending that puts Christ front and center.

We continue digging into Jonah's emotional life here in Jonah chapter four. We take a hard look at his prayer. It gives us the chance to talk about the value of "bad prayers." It also gives us a moment to take a hard look at how our theology - true or not - always ends up impacting the way we respond to events in our lives. We notice that Jonah, in fact, has a slightly twisted theology that ends up embittering him to the Lord and his ways so profoundly that he confesses he has a death wish in his heart. We end up at Christ's cross trusting our God even in those moments when we taste the sadness of death in our hearts.

We finally arrive to the last chapter of Jonah 4. We wish for a moment that Jonah 4 didn't actually exist, but immediately come to realize how lifelike Jonah 4 really is. We continue with an overview of the chapter. We end up amazed that we get an inside look at the emotional life of one of God's children and are amazed again this time in a negative sense at the power of anger. We spend the rest of our time dealing with that specific emotion based on the text. 

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S03:E7 Jonah 3 Part 1

We continue looking in depth at the third scene of the book of Jonah. This time we explore two more character: Jonah and Jesus. We see Jonah's psalm is all he hopes it to be. It's not perfect. In some cases, it's just plain troubling. We identify with him strongly in that. We see how our prayers can be flawed, our motives mixed, and our best ideas problematic. Then we see Jesus, the greater Jonah, and we talk over each other with so much excitement. He's just so - well - Jesus.

We move into the third scene of the book of Jonah. We organize the chapter for our listeners around the four main characters involved. We notice the Lord hemming Jonah in, enclosing him with his mercy, and are moved by his constant instigation for his children. We also try not to become marine biologists as we notice and try to understand a very nauseous fish.

We take a second look at the second scene of Jonah this time with a focus on Jonah himself. We watch him move lower and lower and lower and lower until he's managed to lower himself all the way into the heart of the sea. We think about his rebellion and marvel at the way the Lord continues to send wave after wave of his relentless mercy to his fleeing child. As we think that through we consider for a while escapism in the modern life. We close on a cliffhanger asking ourselves what the Lord will do with his children who end up all the way in sheol.

We walk into the second scene of the book of Jonah feeling the swirl of wind and the pounding of waves and watching the waves rise. We discuss the historicity of the account and then take a dive into cultural views of the sea both then and now. We end with our jaws on the ground staring at Lord's heart in this Scripture especially as we see how he even manages to use the disobedience of his children to draw people to himself.

We take our first deep dive into the book of Jonah. We begin by taking a hot air balloon over the book and chapter. We then take in the first scene of the book. We end with heavy application of what we've learned seeing ourselves in the person of Jonah and working out for ourselves the ways in which we find Joppa and head for Tarshish. We end with an application of the ultimate prophet, Jesus Christ, to ourselves and our listeners who heard his calling and obeyed.

We begin our journey into the book of Jonah discussing what makes Jonah culturally and biblically significant, but end up focusing on how we can be "doves," "flight risks," and, "shipwrecks" in our own lives. We also take notice of some immediate satire and biting irony. We close ready to take a journey into the parts of our hearts that are flighty with the hope that we will be spit up on the other side of our journey with more faithfulness and truth - all by the power of the Word of the Lord that comes to us through Jonah.

We have reached the end of our journey in Jude. We end on the highest and most brilliant views in the book. We end with a simple promise. Despite all the false teaching and doom, the Lord will keep his beloved will bring them with great joy into his glorious presence. Count on it!

We need each other. God made us not to live individually but as a community. God made us to build each other up in the most holy faith and keep one another. God made us to save each other and to snatch each other out of the fire and to be merciful. Jude encourages us to stay close to one another and most importantly to God.