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Part 2 | The God Of Another Chance
Senior Pastor Keith Stewart
July 26, 2026

Have you ever wondered if God still listens when the mess you're in is entirely your own fault? Jonah wasn't running toward God—he was running away. Even after God rescued him, his heart still had a long way to go. Yet God refused to give up on him.

This weekend in RELENTLESS: The God Who Won't Give Up on People, we'll look beyond the famous fish to discover the real miracle of Jonah chapter 2. What if God's greatest work isn't simply rescuing us from our circumstances—but patiently transforming us through grace upon grace?

If you've ever struggled with failure, self-righteousness, or wondered whether God could still use someone like you, this message is for you.

Join us this Sunday at Springcreek Church or watch online. You may discover that you've been living inside Jonah's story longer than you realized.

Discussion Questions

Have you ever been absolutely convinced you were right, only to discover later that you had completely misunderstood the situation? What happened?

Digging Into the Passage

1. Read Jonah 2 aloud together. What stands out to you after hearing the sermon that you may never have noticed before?

2. Jonah repeatedly thanks God for rescuing him, yet never explicitly confesses his rebellion. Why do you think that omission is significant?
3. Compare Jonah's prayer with Psalm 51 or Psalm 32. What differences do you notice between David's prayers and Jonah's?

4. The sermon suggested that Jonah stopped running because he couldn't run anymore—not because his heart had fully changed. Have you ever obeyed God before your heart completely caught up? What did that experience teach you?

Applying the Message

5. The sermon said: "The greatest miracle in Jonah chapter 2 isn't that a fish keeps a man alive. It's that God keeps loving a prophet who still doesn't love what God loves." How does that statement change the way you think about grace?

6. Why do you think it's often easier to recognize other people's sins than our own?

7. Jonah could receive grace but struggled to extend it. Why is that such a common struggle for religious people?

8. The sermon suggested this progression:
Repentance → Grace → Transformation (what we expect)
vs.
Grace → more Grace → still more Grace → eventually
Transformation

How has your own spiritual journey reflected that second pattern?

Personal Reflection

Pastor Keith shared that after nearly fifty years of ministry, he continues to discover how relentless God's grace has been throughout his life. Looking back over your own story, where can you now see God's grace pursuing you—even before you fully understood it?

Is there an area of your life where you're more like Jonah than you'd like to admit? What would it look like to pray, "Lord, show me the truth about myself"?

Close by sharing one way you've experienced God's grace recently and pray that God would help each person become not only a recipient of grace but also someone through whom that grace "spills over" into the lives of others.

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Part 1 | Running From Mercy
Senior Pastor Keith Stewart
July 19, 2026

If you look around our culture today, everything seems to be divided into "us" and "them." Every day we're told who to fear, who to blame, who to despise, and who deserves our outrage. The anger comes from the right and from the left, and before long it begins to shape our own hearts. What's surprising is that God's remedy for this isn't found in a New Testament command or a self-help book. It's found in one of the shortest books of the Old Testament—the book of Jonah. Because Jonah isn't really written for irreligious people. It's written for people like us. People who know God, worship God, and yet can still find themselves resisting the very things God loves. Jonah has a great deal to teach us about who God is, how God works, and how He wants to transform our hearts.

Discussion Questions

1. Before hearing this message, what did you think the book of Jonah was primarily about? Did anything in this week's teaching challenge or expand your understanding of the story?

2. Pastor Keith said, "The book of Jonah is a mirror." In what ways do you see yourself in Jonah's attitudes or actions?

3. Why do you think Jonah resisted God's call to Nineveh? Was it fear, prejudice, nationalism, hatred, or something else? What does his motivation reveal about the human heart?

4. Read Jonah 1:1–3. Jonah ran in the opposite direction of God's command. What are some ways people today can run from God without ever leaving home?

5. The sermon emphasized that all people matter to God. Why is that truth sometimes easy to affirm in theory but difficult to practice with certain people?

6. Pastor Keith asked several searching questions:
Who scares you?
Who offends you?
Who can you not stand?
Who would you rather see judged than forgiven?

Without naming individuals if it would be inappropriate, why do you think those questions are so difficult to answer honestly?

7. Throughout Jonah 1, the pagan sailors often behaved more compassionately than God's prophet. What do you think God is trying to teach us through that surprising reversal?

8. The message suggested that Jonah's deepest problem wasn't simply disobedience but misdirected love—he loved his nation more than God's heart for the nations. What are some good things that can become disordered loves in our own lives?

9. Read John 3:16–17 together. How does verse 17 deepen or reshape your understanding of verse 16?

10. Pastor Keith closed by praying, "God, make me into a grace giver, not just a grace receiver." What would that look like in one specific relationship or situation this week?

Closing Prayer
Ask God to reveal any "Jonah heart" within us—a place where resentment, prejudice, fear, or self-righteousness has replaced compassion. Pray that God would help us see people the way He sees them and become willing participants in His relentless pursuit of those He loves.

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IN THE MIDDLE OF IT
Pastor Jerrid Fletcher
Sunday, July 12, 2026

In The Middle Of It is a message about learning to see the space between promise and possession — the waiting, the delay, the unresolved season — not as evidence God has forgotten you, but as the classroom where He does His deepest work. Before we can learn there, we have to deal with the whispers that convince us we've been overlooked, taking every thought captive and renewing our minds in truth. From there, Scripture shows a pattern: God didn't wait outside Israel's wilderness, Joseph's prison, or the disciples' storm — He moved into the middle of each one. Using Elijah's cave, the desert, the grave, and the storm as case studies, and then walking verse by verse through Psalm 27, the sermon traces David's posture shifting from bold declaration to broken petition to a soul preaching courage back into itself — proof that the middle isn't wasted space, it's where faith gets shaped, tested, and made real. The charge: stop asking only "how do I get out of this," and start asking "what is God teaching me while I'm in it."

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

1. What's a "whisper" you've had to fight recently — a thought that sounded reasonable but didn't actually sound like God? How did you test it?
2. Think of a "middle" season in your own life — a wilderness, a delay, an unanswered prayer. Looking back now, can you see anything God was building in you during it that you couldn't see at the time?
3. Of the four classrooms discussed (Cave, Desert, Grave, Storm), which one feels closest to where you are right now? What do you think it's trying to teach you?
4. David's posture in Psalm 27 shifts from standing tall and declarative (v.1-3) to on his face, pleading (v.7-9). Why do you think honest faith includes both postures? Is one harder for you than the other?
5. The sermon draws a line between "surviving the middle" and "learning in it." What would it look like, practically, for you to shift from one to the other this week?
6. Psalm 27:14 tells us to "wait on the Lord" twice. What makes waiting the second time harder than the first — and what helps you keep your courage up when you're still waiting?