SINKING, STRUGGLING, YET SAVE (2 OF 4)
Scripture: Jonah 2:1-10
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Sinking, Struggling, Yet Save (2 of 4)
Series: Jonah
Donald Cantrell
Jonah 2: 1 – 10
I – The Place & Predicament of Jonah’s Prayer (1: 17, 2: 1)
II – The Passion & Path of Jonah’s Prayer (2 – 3)
III – The Premise & Prevailing of Jonah’s Prayer (4 – 7)
IV – The Pledge & Prognosis of Jonah’s Prayer (8 – 10)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with sub-points.
Theme: “Jonah was facing death, but God lifted him up”
J. Vernon McGee tells the following story:
I have a friend who was for year’s pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Summerville, Tennessee. His index finger had been cut off, and it was nothing more than a stub below the second joint. When anyone would ask him about his call to the ministry, he would hold up that little stub and wave it. Then he would explain what he meant. "Well," he'd say, "I'll tell you...." Then he would tell the story of his call to the ministry.
His father was an elder in the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Memphis. They were having evangelistic meetings in the church, and to obey his dad he would go every night and sit on the second row. He said, "That evangelist was getting to me, and I knew if I stayed another night I would accept Christ as my Savior. I also knew that if I did accept Christ as my Savior I would go into the ministry, and at that time I did not want to.
So after everybody in the family had retired for the night, I put my extra shirt under my arm, slid down the rain gutter from my upstairs bedroom, and headed for Mississippi." He found work in a saw mill down there, and his job was to take these great logs and run them on the conveyor to the saw. If you have seen an old-time sawmill, you know how they'd do that.
One day they ran out of good logs. They had some put aside that were knotty; in fact, some of them had already been to the saw, and it had ripped them partly through before they were found to be inferior and the process reversed. It was decided, since ...
Series: Jonah
Donald Cantrell
Jonah 2: 1 – 10
I – The Place & Predicament of Jonah’s Prayer (1: 17, 2: 1)
II – The Passion & Path of Jonah’s Prayer (2 – 3)
III – The Premise & Prevailing of Jonah’s Prayer (4 – 7)
IV – The Pledge & Prognosis of Jonah’s Prayer (8 – 10)
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with sub-points.
Theme: “Jonah was facing death, but God lifted him up”
J. Vernon McGee tells the following story:
I have a friend who was for year’s pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Summerville, Tennessee. His index finger had been cut off, and it was nothing more than a stub below the second joint. When anyone would ask him about his call to the ministry, he would hold up that little stub and wave it. Then he would explain what he meant. "Well," he'd say, "I'll tell you...." Then he would tell the story of his call to the ministry.
His father was an elder in the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Memphis. They were having evangelistic meetings in the church, and to obey his dad he would go every night and sit on the second row. He said, "That evangelist was getting to me, and I knew if I stayed another night I would accept Christ as my Savior. I also knew that if I did accept Christ as my Savior I would go into the ministry, and at that time I did not want to.
So after everybody in the family had retired for the night, I put my extra shirt under my arm, slid down the rain gutter from my upstairs bedroom, and headed for Mississippi." He found work in a saw mill down there, and his job was to take these great logs and run them on the conveyor to the saw. If you have seen an old-time sawmill, you know how they'd do that.
One day they ran out of good logs. They had some put aside that were knotty; in fact, some of them had already been to the saw, and it had ripped them partly through before they were found to be inferior and the process reversed. It was decided, since ...
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