{"id":101808,"date":"2026-06-27T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T07:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=101808"},"modified":"2026-06-20T15:07:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T22:07:51","slug":"sermon-lessons-from-the-book-of-jonah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/cog-news\/sermon-lessons-from-the-book-of-jonah\/","title":{"rendered":"Sermon: Lessons from the Book of Jonah"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nRepresentation of Jonah Preaching to the Ninevites<\/i> (1866) by Gustave Dor\u00e9<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Continuing<\/em> Church of God<\/a> is pleased to announce this sermon from its ContinuingCOG<\/a> channel which was a Q&A mainly related to prophetic issues:<\/p>\n

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Lessons from the Book of Jonah<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In this sermon, Dr. Thiel goes through each and every verse of the Book of Jonah. He answers questions such as when did the events happen, what was the relative importance of Ninevah, was Jonah really swallowed by a great fish, how did Jonah respond differently than Job, do we resist God, should we change, is it a sin not to do what we know is right, and how long was Jesus and Jonah in the “grave’? The sermon quotes other scriptures, including what Jesus said verifying the veracity of the account, which biblical critics often dismiss. Quotes related to Jonah from other Church of God writers are included. Several lessons to be learned from the Book of Jonah were discussed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here is a link to the sermon:\u00a0Lessons from the Book of Jonah<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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JONAH<\/strong> What are some of the important messages in the Book of Jonah. Was he really swallowed by a great fish? Here is an article covering earch verse in this book: Commentary on Jonah<\/a>. Here is a link to a related sermon: Lessons from the Book of Jonah<\/span><\/a>.
\nIs God Calling You?<\/a> This booklet discusses topics including calling, election, and selection. If God is calling you, how will you respond? Here is are links to related sermons: Christian Election: Is God Calling YOU?<\/a> and Predestination and Your Selection<\/a>; here is a message in Spanish: Me Est\u00e1 Llamando Dios Hoy?<\/a> A short animation is also available: Is God Calling You?<\/a>
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Representation of Jonah Preaching to the Ninevites (1866) by Gustave Dor\u00e9 COGwriter The Continuing Church of God is pleased to announce this sermon from its ContinuingCOG channel which was a Q&A mainly related to prophetic issues: 1:11;12 Lessons from the Book of Jonah In this sermon, Dr. Thiel goes through each and every verse of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cog-news","category-old-testament-history"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101809,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101808\/revisions\/101809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}