This morning we had a visiting preacher - a retired minister who preceded me by three at the Railway Town Baptist Church.  As it happens, he trained after me in Manchester. He had chosen some hymns that he thought we wouldn't know - and actually it turned out we all did, including this one, which stirred sweet memories of The Gathering Place.  I almost drifted off into the descant at the end of the last verse, but, for which everyone should be very grateful, I didn't!

A thoughtful sermon on the 'sign of Jonah' linked to a theme of One World Week (a charity now closed down) and the sign of Jonah being the God who cares for all creation and longs for its flourishing.