Jonah. Terrific story. One of Sunday School's most memorable hours - it is great drama.

As you recall Jonah was a prophet in Israel. God came to him and said that he should leave his nation and go over to the capital of one of his country's fiercest foes...Ninevah in Assyria. Jonah did not want to go. So he went down to the seaport of Joppa and got on a boat headed for Tarshish in Spain. The direction was exactly opposite the one God wanted him to take. Jonah did not want to preach to the Ninevites. After all, in the eighth century BC when Jonah preached, the Ninevites were his generation's Saddam Husseins - they were mean, vicious, and brutal in their conquests. Why should a preacher want to go to people like that?

Now, do not get the wrong idea...Jonah was no coward. He did not avoid G…