Jonah

• Where it fits: This book is a narrative (story) more than a sermon; it fits well in the era where Assyria is a major power in the region.
• Core message: God cares about nations, enemies, and outsiders, and He confronts the hardness in His own messenger.
• Big themes: mercy, repentance, prejudice, God’s sovereignty, mission.
• Structure:
  1. Jonah runs → storm → fish
  2. Jonah obeys → city repents
  3. Jonah sulks → God teaches him with a plant object lesson
• Why it matters: Jonah challenges a “small” view of God. God’s compassion is bigger than our comfort zone.