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Welcome to Grace Outpost , glad to have you join me this week!   This is the third week of our study through Jonah.   Last week we covered chapter 2, which covers the part of Jonah that everyone knows.   Jonah was swallowed by a fish and cried out to God for forgiveness for his disobedience.   We ended with Jonah being expelled from the fish on dry land. I don’t know about you, but I have screwed up at a job before.   I will share one of those examples with you today.   A while ago I had a job with a security company, if you have never worked security you may not understand how it works.   When you are new, you float from work site to work site until a permanent position opens up.   I was still fairly new and was offered a job doing overnight security on a short term project covering some nighttime construction work.   I am typically a night owl so I snagged it right up.   Now this was one of our normal sites which we provided execu...

Welcome to Grace Outpost , I am so glad to have you here today.   Today we are continuing with our series on Jonah.   Many people only know that Jonah was eaten by a whale or great fish, but miss the broader picture of God’s love and mercy that is the point of the book.   In fact, there are only 3 verses that deal with the fish out of 4 chapters.   Last week we saw that Jonah ignored God’s command to him and as he ran from God he experienced consequence for his disobedience.   Today our key text will be Jonah 1:17 – 2:10 . 1 :17 And the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. 2 :1 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish, 2 saying, “I called out to the Lord, out of my distress,     and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried,     and you heard my voice. 3 For you cast me into the deep,   ...

Welcome back to Grace Outpost!   I am glad to have you here.  I hope that each of you had a splendid holiday season.  Now we find ourselves well into January and surely there are more than a few of us who have already abandoned many, if not all, of our resolutions for the year.  Change is tough, it is uncomfortable, and many times we quit because we fear that we will fail.  Somehow we figure if we silently quit it is better than failing, at least this way it is our choice and our control.  Today we will look at a story of someone who quit not because he was afraid of failure, but he was afraid of success!  Everyone has heard of the book of Jonah and what does everyone associate with the story?   A whale.   There is so much focus on the great fish that the real story of our Great God is lost.   Only three verses in the 4 chapters mentions the fish and it mentions it without making a big deal of it.   The truth is that if we ...