Jonah: Responding to God in all the Right Ways [Paperback]

Dr. Hal Seed (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2008

Called by God to reach the Ninevehites, Jonah runs the other way, triggering a cosmic dilemma: what does God do with a wayward prophet? In four short chapters, God proves His greatness and graciousness by redirecting, restoring, and then using Jonah to spark an evangelistic fire never before seen in history, as an entire city turns to God.

Jonah: Responding to God in all the Right Ways will enrich your time with God, help you understand the Twin Peaks of his character, lead you in a daily response to His greatness, and motivate you to want to serve Him more fully.

In these pages you will learn:
How God disciplines His children
How fear can be turned to faith
How to pray when in deep distress
How to keep a tender heart toward God
How to become a great question-asker
How God gives second chances
How to memorize Scripture
How God feels about the least loveable people
How God teaches His servants
How to respond to God's greatness and grace.

Jonah is designed as a four-week spiritual experience that can be used in three ways:
Individually, with four weeks of daily readings
With a small group, using the weekly discussion guides
In a church-wide campaign, accompanied with web-accessible sermons.

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About the Author

Hal Seed is the founding and lead pastor of New Song Community Church in Oceanside, California, which has led over 5000 people to Christ, planted six daughter churches, and helped found Outreach, Inc., Dynamic Church Planting International, and Church Community Builders Online. He is the author of The God Questions, Future History, and Jonah: Responding to God in all the Right Ways. Hal holds degrees from Wheaton College (BA), Denver Seminary (M.Div.) and Fuller Seminar (D.Min). He and his wife, Lori, have two college-age children, Bryan and Amy.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: New Song Press; 1st edition (February 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0979787831
• ISBN-13: 978-0979787836
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,300,225 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful, practical, theological, April 22, 2008

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J. Brian Kiley "livegenerously.wordpress.com" (Oceanside, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jonah: Responding to God in all the Right Ways (Paperback)

In this short little book Hal has accomplished a number of things.

First of all, he explains the book of Jonah remarkably well. Hardly one of the daily readings goes by without a theological insight that is difficult to catch with a simple reading of the text. I finished each chapter understanding the book of Jonah far better than I did when I started.

Second, he does as excellent job of making the book of Jonah practical. He addresses common issues that bring many of us down from frustration with God, to anger, to feelings of failure, to our inability to ask good questions. Additionally, he takes opportunities to provide instruction on important spiritual disciplines (I found his section on scripture memory to be especially helpful). While much of the text provides interesting food for thought, it is clear that Hal isn't willing to allow the book to simply be that. He ends each day's reading with a challenge to respond in some way (often a particular way) to the greatness and grace of God that the book of Jonah shows us. Rather than simply being a theological treatise, this is a book that challenges us to live better, and I appreciated that challenge.

Third, just as Hal says that the book of Jonah is about God, so too this book isn't about Jonah, or a about a Sunday school Bible story. It is quite clearly about a great and gracious God. Through the pages of this book I found myself impressed again at who God is and how he interacts with his people.

The book is divided up into 20 daily readings, and has excellent discussion questions at the end. New Christians and mature believers alike will benefit from the encouraging, challenging, heart warming teaching this book provides. I especially recommend it for small group study, as it is set up to work well in a small group environment.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jonah Explained, February 25, 2008

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L. Frost - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jonah: Responding to God in all the Right Ways (Paperback)

Jonah: Responding to God in all the Right Ways by Hal Seed really cleared up ALOT of misconceptions about this very short book of the bible. Besides learning that there is NO WHALE in the book of Jonah, the detailed background into the socio-ecomomic issues of that time period helped explain why Jonah ran away and why he so stubbornly refused to obey God and why he remained angry even after obeying.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jonah is Authentic and Readable, February 11, 2008

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A. Seed "College Girlie" (Southern California) - See all my reviews
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Jonah offers great insight and application in a very authentic format. It allows the reader to see into the life of Jonah, his experiences, and his lessons, while creating a dialogue about how those lessons intersect our lives. The short chapter, daily reading makes it easy to digest. This is a definite must read.