Jonah: God’s Relentless Grace (Flourish Bible Study)

by Lydia Brownback

Publisher:

Crossway

, 2023

Overview

A 10-Week Study for Women on the Book of Jonah

The story of Jonah is about so much more than a great, man-eating fish. This short Old Testament book is actually a powerful drama about God’s power, patience, and relentless grace—showing how God works out his purposes and how nothing can thwart his determination to save. Jonah's story is ultimately the story of Jesus and all believers as they learn to trust God and submit to his revealed word.

In this 10-week Bible study for women, Lydia Brownback explores Jonah verse by verse to help believers understand God’s overarching providence, the nature of true repentance, and the wondrous grace of God. Written for individuals or groups, each lesson helps women understand the themes of compassion, mercy, patience, and sovereignty, ultimately encouraging Christians to reject personal comforts and trust God through every circumstance.

10-Week Bible Study for Women: Offers an in-depth, exegetical look at the book of Jonah

Quick, Engaging Weekly Resources: Helpful reading plans, sidebars, timelines, and more to help busy readers get the most out of Scripture

Perfect for Individuals or Small Groups: Includes discussion questions and additional verses for further reading

Key Features

• Explores Jonah verse by verse to help believers understand God’s overarching providence, the nature of true repentance, and the wondrous grace of God
• Offers an in-depth, exegetical look at the book of Jonah
• Includes discussion questions and additional verses for further reading

Contents

• The Timing of Jonah
• Introduction: Getting into Jonah
• Reading Plan
• Week 1: Privileged Prophet (Jonah 1:1–3)
• Week 2: Going Down! (Jonah 1:4–6)
• Week 3: Life or Death (Jonah 1:7–16)
• Week 4: Three Days and Three Nights (Jonah 1:17)
• Week 5: Down in the Depths (Jonah 2:1–6)
• Week 6: A Reoriented Heart (Jonah 2:7–9)
• Week 7: Preach It, Jonah! (Jonah 3:1–5a)
• Week 8: Sackcloth and Ashes (Jonah 3:5–10)
• Week 9: Grace for Backsliders (Jonah 4:1–4)
• Week 10: A Plant, a Worm, and a Hot East Wind (Jonah 4:5–11)
• Helpful Resources for Studying Jonah
• Notes

Praise for the Print Edition

The brilliant and beautiful mix of sound teaching, helpful charts, lists, sidebars, and appealing graphics—as well as insightful questions that get the reader into the text of Scripture—make these studies that women will want to invest time in and will look back on as time well spent.

—Nancy Guthrie, Bible teacher; author, Even Better than Eden

My daughter and I love using Flourish Bible Studies for our morning devotions. Lydia Brownback’s faithful probing of biblical texts; insightful questions; invitations to engage in personal applications using additional biblical texts and historical contexts; and commitment to upholding the whole counsel of God as it bears on living life as a godly woman has drawn us closer to the Lord and to his word. Brownback never sidesteps hard questions or hard providences, but neither does she appeal to discourses of victimhood or therapy, which are painfully common in the genre of women’s Bible studies. I cannot recommend this series highly enough. My daughter and I look forward to working through this whole series together!

—Rosaria Butterfield, former Professor of English and Women’s Studies, Syracuse University

As a women’s ministry leader, I am excited about the development of the Flourish Bible Study series, which will not only prayerfully equip women to increase in biblical literacy but also come alongside them to build a systematic and comprehensive framework to become lifelong students of the word of God. This series provides visually engaging studies with accessible content that will not only strengthen the believer but the church as well.

—Karen Hodge, Coordinator of Women’s Ministries, Presbyterian Church in America

Product Details

• Title: Jonah: God’s Relentless Grace
• Author: Lydia Brownback
• Series: Flourish Bible Study Series
• Publisher: Crossway
• Print Publication Date: 2023
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 86
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subject: Bible. O.T. Jonah › Commentaries
• ISBNs: 9781433583261, 1433583267
• Resource ID: LLS:JNHGDSRLNTBBLST
• Resource Type: text.monograph.bible-study
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-08-20T21:20:28Z

About Lydia Brownback

Lydia Brownback (MAR, Westminster Theological Seminary) is the author of several books and a speaker at women’s conferences internationally. She has served as director of editorial for Crossway’s Book Division; writer-in-residence for Reverend Alistair Begg; and broadcast media manager for Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, where she produced The Bible Study Hour radio program with James Montgomery Boice. Some of Lydia’s books include the On-the-Go Devotional series as well as A Woman’s Wisdom: How the Book of Proverbs Speaks to Everything.