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Theme: God’s heart for humanity. Jonah knows that he is created in the image of God, but Jonah hates that image because God is too good. So, in his anger, he tells God to kill him. Anger deforms the image of God and justice leads to irrational anger. God wants for us to turn over our motives and bring them under the cross, where justice and compassion were fused together. In Christ, we’ve been given a new DNA, a DNA of mercy to touch and to heal our world, to use our anger as an ally of mercy.

Theme: The parable of the great banquet. Jesus compares the kingdom of God with a man who invites us to a banquet. It’s an invitation to the whole world. This banquet is one of grace that he invites all of us to.

Theme: Jonah – a man who could not love others who were not like him. How and why do you love others who are not like us? No matter what nation anybody comes from, other people are humanity and they are made in the image of God. It is God’s heartbeat that all of humanity will reach repentance. We love others by preaching repentance, which requires giving mercy, carrying for others and serving others.

Tema: Nel ventre del pesce, Giona prega a Dio. La sua preghiera ci fornisce una guida di come praticare la confessione di ogni giorno, come ravvederci e come camminare con Dio nel buio.Non importa quanto profondo andiamo nel mare oscuro, Dio ci sente. Giona ci indica Gesù, il più grande Giona. Ci dimostra che la misericordia di Dio è sempre più profonda in modo che non dobbiamo mai andare lì. Abbiamo una nuova vita perché Gesù ha dato la sua vita per noi.

Theme: Jonah prays to God from inside the fish. His prayer gives us a guide for how to practice every day confession, how to repent and how to talk to God in the dark. God hears us no matter how deep we go into the dark seas. Jonah points us to Jesus, the greater Jonah; he shows us that God’s mercy is always deeper so that we never have to go there. We have a new life because Jesus gave his own life for us.