Preacher on the Run: The Message of Jonah

by Gordon J. Keddie

Publisher:

Evangelical Press

, 1986

Overview

All the prophets of the Old Testament are milestones along the road to Calvary, but the prophecy of Jonah opens a special window on the New Testament age, when the Lord Jesus Christ would be proclaimed to all the ends of the earth.

Contents

Top Highlights

“Jonah is probably thought of by most of us as the slightly tarnished hero of a really dramatic Bible story” (Page 7)

“To Israel he sent Elijah, then Elisha and, after them, Jonah, Amos and Hosea” (Page 8)

“The juxtaposition of the anger of Jonah and the abounding love of God brings together the ugliness of sin and the loveliness of the Saviour and sets them in the context of an unparalleled (for the Old Testament period) outpouring of God’s free, sovereign and saving grace upon the ‘nations’ (i.e. Gentiles).” (Page 105)

“Why did God want him to go to Nineveh and preach to the very people who, some forty years on, would be responsible for the total destruction of Israel?” (Page 11)

“Jonah is actually a unique prophetic presentation of the universal scope of God’s redeeming love” (Page 1)

Praise for the Print Edition

. . . Commended for its solid and practical exposition. . . . This volume should be widely read.

—Stephen Dray, Principal, Moorlands College, Christchurch, England

Product Details

• Title: Preacher on the Run: The Message of Jonah
• Author: Gordon Keddie
• Publisher: Evangelical Press
• Series: Welwyn Commentary Series
• Publication Date: 1993
• Pages: 144

About Gordon J. Keddie

Gordon J. Keddie is a pastor at Southside Reformed Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis, Indiana. He graduated from the University of Aberdeen (BSc) and Edinburg (DipEd). He received his MDiv from the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary and has written several books, including You Are My Witnesses: The Message of the Acts of the Apostles and The Practical Christian: The Message of James.