11/01/09

On this All Saints' Day, the story of "Jonah" serves as the focus of our Sunday School lesson. Just as Jonah was swallowed up in the belly of the fish for three days, so Jesus, in His crucifixion, was baptized into the sea of death, drowned in our depravities, devoured by the grave, and spewed forth alive again after three days and nights that He might save us, the Assyrians, the Ninevites, and Jonah.

Questions for discussion include, "Why did Jonah try to run away from God? What does God do when sinful people repent?"