WOF 427: Hearing the Voice of God
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
4.9 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Friends, the Book of Jonah is one of the shortest books of the Bible, yet it’s packed with profound truths about hearing and obeying the voice of God. On today’s episode of “The Word on Fire Show,” Brandon Vogt and I discuss this powerful little book.
A listener asks, why did Jesus show up when he did and not at a different point in time? What would the world look like had he showed up later, or not at all?
00:00 | Intro
00:46 | Bishop Barron on Catholic Schools Week
01:51 | Bishop Barron’s recent conversation with Jordan Peterson
02:47 | Intro to the book of Jonah
04:41 | Jonah’s opening narrative
09:25 | Lessons from Luke’s road to Emmaus and Jonah
11:00 | The significance of Jonah’s storm
14:31 | The significance of Jonah’s fish
16:58 | Answering Jonah’s critics
18:22 | Jonah’s concluding narrative
20:17 | Jesus’ words on Jonah
22:48 | More resources on Jonah
23:34 | Listener question
26:17 | New book—Princesses of Heaven: The Flowers
27:13 | Special announcement about future of WOF Show
Links
- A Journey with Jonah: The Spirituality of Bewilderment by Fr. Paul Murray
- Princesses of Heaven: The Flowers by Fabiola Garza
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| 0:00.0 | The fish, don't read it negatively, the fish is a rescue operation. |
| 0:03.4 | The fish rescues Jonah from drowning. |
| 0:06.1 | So in the midst of his crisis, |
| 0:08.4 | God does what God typically does in the Bible is he sends rescue operations. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome back to the word on fire show. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Brandon Votat the host and the senior |
| 0:24.8 | publishing director at Word on Fire. The Book of Jonah is one of the |
| 0:29.6 | shortest books in the Bible, yet it's packed with profound truths about hearing and obeying the voice of God. |
| 0:37.0 | We'll be discussing that book today with Bishop Barron, who joins us from our studio in Rochester, Minnesota. |
| 0:42.0 | Bishop, good to see you.. Bishop, good to see you. |
| 0:43.4 | Hey Brandon, good to see you. |
| 0:46.8 | Lots of exciting things in your life recently. |
| 0:49.4 | One of them is the upcoming Catholic Schools Week, which I know you really enjoy. |
| 0:53.5 | Tell us what that's like as a bishop. |
| 0:56.2 | How do you celebrate Catholic Schools Week? |
| 0:58.0 | I go all over the diocese and I've got a big sprawling diocese. |
| 1:01.1 | It goes from Wisconsin to South Dakota all across southern Minnesota. And I go to these |
| 1:06.2 | very schools all over the place. So next week is basically it's like one big event every day, but it involved a lot of driving. |
| 1:13.2 | I'll drive maybe hour, hour and a half, and then there's a big mass with the kids, usually |
| 1:18.4 | followed by lunch or some kind. |
| 1:20.6 | But I always get a kick out of it. Last year, it was my first year here, |
| 1:24.0 | and I did, I think, four schools. |
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