Hey, everybody. I'm Tim Mackie, and this is my podcast, exploring my strange Bible. I am a card-carrying

Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you

have. On this podcast, I'm putting together the last 20 years worth of lectures and sermons where I've

been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites us into the mission

of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can all be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts and classes about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find all those resources at Bibleproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this

week.

All right, we are continuing in this series. We're exploring the book of the ancient prophet Jonah.

Again, this was a teaching series I did at Door of Hope Church back in 2013. And in the

second message, we're exploring this main part of chapter one, which is all about how Jonah,

this set up as God's own prophet, but is the only person in the book who refuses to really

listen to God. But everything else in creation,

both humans and non-humans, are very aware in listening to God in this story. The second

message explores how Jonah is a figure who is asleep at the wheel, namely he is deaf to God

and every means that God is using to communicate to him.

And I think the story invites us in to thinking about our own lack of perception and awareness

of ways that God might be trying to get through to us. It's a very challenging story.

I was really challenged, both preparing and realizing what was going on in the story and then giving this message. So I hope it can open up

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