Seattle Mennonite Church Sermons
Seattle Mennonite Church is an active Anabaptist Mennonite Christian congregation working faithfully at following Jesus in our urban context. All are welcome! Listen in to our Sunday morning sermons to get a sense of who we are.
Seattle Mennonite Church Sermons
Pouty Jonah & Spreading the Faith
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Jonah is dramatically, laughably angry about God's mercy for the Ninevites, and carries on a stompy, pouty tantrum. Often I laugh at his expense; this week I relate. We also recall that God's mercy for Nineveh follows sincere repentance and reparation of harm on the part of the powerful; and that Jesus centered his life and ministry among those at the pointy end of the State's violence. May we seek to do the same as we spread the faith. [sermon begins at 19:03; child dedication at 32:55]
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Scripture: Jonah 3.1-10; 4.1-11
Photo by Neil Fedorowycz on Unsplash
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Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.
- Here in this place - Words and Music: Marty Haugen © 1981 GIA Publications.
- Lord we bring to you our children - Words: Frank von Christierson © 1976 The Hymn Society, Hope Publishing Co. Music: American Folks Melody.
Other Resources
- Just as I am - Words: Charlotte Elliot, 1834. Music: English traditional.
- Hard Times Come Again No More - Words and Music: Stephen Foster 1894.
- When God Made You, by Matthew Paul Turner. Illustrated by David Catrow.