[While King Duncan is enjoying a well deserved retirement we are going back to his earliest sermons and renewing them. The newly modernized sermon is shown first and below, for reference sake, is the old sermon. We will continue this updating throughout the year bringing fresh takes on King's best sermons.]

Original Name: God Sometimes Changes His Mind
New Name: Forgive Us Our Trash Baskets

A little boy was asked what we learn from the story of Jonah and the whale. His answer was, "People make whales sick."

Well, that's one thing we can learn from the ancient story of Jonah. People do make whales sick. There are other lessons in this book too, however. Many sermons have been preached from Jonah on the futility of running away from God. As someone has said, "You can't ever run that far!" Of cou…