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Jonah: The Relentless Love of God

Everybody knows Jonah got swallowed by a fish. Fewer remember the fish is barely the point. We’ll take the whole book slowly and find a God whose love is relentless, the kind that chases a runaway prophet across the sea and keeps reaching the people he’d rather it skipped. Because Jonah doesn’t run for fear God will fail. He runs for fear God will love the wrong people, and love them anyway. Come find out how far that love is willing to go.

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Rev. Tom Hathaway - August 24, 2025

The Sampson Cycle

This sermon traces the Hatfields and McCoys feud, Samson’s violent cycle in Judges, and today’s conflicts — from office spats to Gaza — to show how retaliation only multiplies the wreckage. It lifts up Jesus’ teaching and example on the cross as the unveiling of a different way, breaking the cycle of revenge with love. The call is clear: stop waiting for Samsons and strongmen, and live instead by the Spirit’s power to answer darkness with light and hate with love, for the healing of the world.

Scripture References: Judges 13:1-25, Judges 14:1-20, Judges 15:1-20

 

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