{"id":14238,"date":"2013-09-27T14:15:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T03:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?page_id=14238"},"modified":"2014-03-02T15:26:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T04:26:08","slug":"jonah","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/studies\/jonah\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In writing the Introduction to this study on the Book of Jonah last year, I posted a Facebook update. It was a stream of consciousness, a brainstorm of my early thoughts about the book. I\u2019ve taken the advice of some of my Facebook friends and have kept this stream of consciousness as the Introduction.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am currently writing an introduction to some studies on the Book of Jonah. &#8220;Why do I like the story line?&#8221; Well, Jonah is soooo ridiculous (reminds me of me!), God is soooo compassionate, the fish is soooo BIG, the fisherman call on God when Jonah won&#8217;t, the Ninevite Baddies repent, the bush and the worm and the worm of a man\/disciple &#8211; I love it! My imagination runs riot! Just wonderful!<\/p>\n<p>But did Jonah repent of his narrow minded view of the world and see the world as God sees it? Now, that&#8217;s a question for me! &#8211; Oops! Suddenly the Book has got a little toooo relevant for little ole ridiculously reluctant me\/disciple. Shame.<\/p>\n<p>And so to pray and greater commitment: Thank you Holy Spirit who inspired the writing of &#8216;Jonah&#8217; and who continues to work wonders in God&#8217;s world and among God&#8217;s reluctant and often ridiculous people. In your mercy continue to work (gently!) on me. Amen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You will find an historical and biblical introduction to the Book of Jonah, from the NIV Study Bible,\u00a0<a title=\"here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biblica.com\/en-us\/bible\/online-bible\/scholar-notes\/niv-study-bible\/intro-to-jonah\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lenten Booklet edited by Santaseelan Packianathan\u00a0: <a href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/files\/2013\/09\/FiveStudiesJonah.pdf\">Five Studies on Jonah<\/a> based on the following\u00a0devotionals:<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen Daily Devotionals initially written for the Bible Society follow:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Sixteen Days with Jonah \u2013 Day 1\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/studies\/jonah\/sixteen-days-with-jonah-day-1\/\"><span style=\"line-height: 16px\">Day 1 (Jonah 1:1)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Sixteen Days with Jonah \u2013 Day 2\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/studies\/jonah\/sixteen-days-with-jonah-day-2\/\">Day 2 (Jonah 1:2)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Sixteen Days with Jonah \u2013 Day 3\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/studies\/jonah\/sixteen-days-with-jonah-day-3\/\">Day 3 (Jonah 1:3)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Sixteen Days with Jonah \u2013 Day 4\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/studies\/jonah\/sixteen-days-with-jonah-day-4\/\">Day 4 (Jonah 1:4-10)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Sixteen Days with Jonah \u2013 Day 5\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/studies\/jonah\/sixteen-days-with-jonah-day-5\/\">Day 5 (Jonah 1:11-16)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Sixteen Days with Jonah \u2013 Day 6\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/studies\/jonah\/sixteen-days-with-jonah-day-6\/\">Day 6 (Jonah 1:17)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Sixteen Days with Jonah \u2013 Day 7\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/studies\/jonah\/sixteen-days-with-jonah-day-7\/\">Day 7 (Jonah 2:1-9)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Sixteen Days with Jonah \u2013 Day 8\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/studies\/jonah\/sixteen-days-with-jonah-day-8\/\">Day 8 (Jonah 2:10)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Sixteen Days with Jonah \u2013 Day 9\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/studies\/jonah\/sixteen-days-with-jonah-day-9\/\">Day 9 (Jonah 3:1-3a)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Sixteen Days with Jonah \u2013 Day 10\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/studies\/jonah\/sixteen-days-with-jonah-day-10\/\">Day 10 (Jonah 3:3b-4)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Sixteen Days with Jonah \u2013 Day 11\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/studies\/jonah\/sixteen-days-with-jonah-day-11\/\">Day 11 (Jonah 3:5-9)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Sixteen Days with Jonah \u2013 Day 12\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/studies\/jonah\/sixteen-days-with-jonah-day-12\/\">Day 12 (Jonah 3:10)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Sixteen Days with Jonah \u2013 Day 13\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/studies\/jonah\/sixteen-days-with-jonah-day-13\/\">Day 13 (Jonah 4:1-4)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Sixteen Days with Jonah \u2013 Day 14\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/studies\/jonah\/sixteen-days-with-jonah-day-14\/\">Day 14 (Jonah 4:5)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Sixteen Days with Jonah \u2013 Day 15\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/studies\/jonah\/sixteen-days-with-jonah-day-15\/\">Day 15 (Jonah 4:6-8a)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Sixteen Days with Jonah \u2013 Day 16\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/studies\/jonah\/sixteen-days-with-jonah-day-16\/\">Day 16 (Jonah 4:8b-11)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bishop John Harrower<br \/>\n2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In writing the Introduction to this study on the Book of Jonah last year, I posted a Facebook update. It was a stream of consciousness, a brainstorm of my early thoughts about the book. I\u2019ve taken the advice of some &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/studies\/jonah\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":14236,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14238"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14238"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14294,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14238\/revisions\/14294"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}