{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Church is Messy","title":"Church Is Messy: Jonah Week 5 - God's Compassionate Love","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1840,"description":"The roles are reversed: Rick asks Svea about her message on Jonah and we get insight into what didn't make it into the message this past week.\nTopics discussed in this episode:\n00:00 Intro\n01:33 Believing God is gracious, compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love at the heart level banishes fear, heals hurts, and melts anger.\n04:00 How do you recognize the real ugliness and brokenness in the world that touches our lives, remember who God is and what we're like in him in such a way we are not angry people?\n08:12 What was left on the cutting room floor?\n09:17 Answer: Jonah didn't want to be seen as a fool to the Ninevites or his own people because God relented on overthrowing the Ninevites.\n16:25 Why do we want to whitewash certain biblical figures?\n18:08 We want simple - the good guys and the bad guys, but we're all good guys and bad guys.\n25:11 Elijah and Jonah - similarities and differences.\n27:26 Rebellion and religion are almost identical - they both lead to the same thing - self-reliance.\n29:06 Jesus is the better Jonah.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/eGW0GjLFQWz3qpPjio-ji_5x5MOSNJlW79nf4VSHKIM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI4Mzk3LzE2ODMw/MzYzMDItYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}