Comments on: The Story of Jonah (sermons by nathan lewis in beaverton, oregon) http://nathanlewis.org/2010/01/11/the-story-of-jonah-sermon-series/ living the gospel Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:44:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Willem Kooijman http://nathanlewis.org/2010/01/11/the-story-of-jonah-sermon-series/#comment-138613 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:31:53 +0000 http://nathanlewis.org/2010/01/11/the-story-of-jonah-sermon-series/#comment-138613 What a great and inspiring treatment of the famous story of Jonah. I have read the Bible, including the story about Jonah, from cover to cover some ten times. But the text by Nathan Lewis proved to me once more something that I have known for decades: it is good to read the Bible but reading the Bible becomes much more profitable, in the sense that you just learn much more and understand much more, when there is a priest or a minister or a good book (understandable for laymen)or a good website or blog that explains things to you. As regards blogs and websites: being retired and having a lot of spare time I am on the internet at least two or three hours every day. Looking for Christian websites and blogs. But I must say that finding good, valuable Christian websites and blogs is not so easy. The vast majority of Christian blogs and websites is completely useless and unworthy of the word Christian. Today I found your very very good blog only after finding 8 blogs that were useless. To say one or two things about the text as such: the story of Jonah teaches us a number of important lessons: --- God always achieves his purposes, no matter how weak the persons are that he must use to reach his ends and no matter how unfavourable the circumstances he has to overcome --- no man can flee away from God, if God wants to find you he will find you, whereever you are --- there seems to be more humour in the Bible than most Christians (including myself) realize. It is often said that the Bible has no humour and that, for instance, there are no Bible verses that say that Jesus ever laughed. The article convinced me that there is real humour in the story about Jonah, though I must admit that someone else had to point it out to me: I did not find it myself. Perhaps this is because most people these days are used to the (often rather coarse) humour of TV programmes and humorous movies. Perhaps these have ruined people's natural sense of humour. If this is true, it is a pity. What a great and inspiring treatment of the famous story of Jonah. I have read the Bible, including the story about Jonah, from cover to cover some ten times. But the text by Nathan Lewis proved to me once more something that I have known for decades: it is good to read the Bible but reading the Bible becomes much more profitable, in the sense that you just learn much more and understand much more, when there is a priest or a minister or a good book (understandable for laymen)or a good website or blog that explains things to you.
As regards blogs and websites: being retired and having a lot of spare time I am on the internet at least two or three hours every day. Looking for Christian websites and blogs. But I must say that finding good, valuable Christian websites and blogs is not so easy. The vast majority of Christian blogs and websites is completely useless and unworthy of the word Christian.
Today I found your very very good blog only after finding 8 blogs that were useless.

To say one or two things about the text as such:
the story of Jonah teaches us a number of important lessons:
— God always achieves his purposes, no matter how weak the persons are that he must use to reach his ends and no matter how unfavourable the circumstances he has to overcome
— no man can flee away from God, if God wants to find you he will find you, whereever you are
— there seems to be more humour in the Bible than most Christians (including myself) realize. It is often said that the Bible has no humour and that, for instance, there are no Bible verses that say that Jesus ever laughed. The article convinced me that there is real humour in the story about Jonah, though I must admit that someone else had to point it out to me: I did not find it myself.
Perhaps this is because most people these days are used to the (often rather coarse) humour of TV programmes and humorous movies. Perhaps these have ruined people’s natural sense of humour. If this is true, it is a pity.

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