Episode 11: Jesus Calms a Storm

What if the storms in our lives aren't random accidents, but divine appointments?In Episode 11, Pastors Steven, Ben, and Travis are joined by Larry Peidt — retired PCA teaching elder, former staff at Coral Ridge under D. James Kennedy, former VP of Evangelism Explosion, and retired Delta captain — to walk through Jesus calming the wind and sea. Pastor Steven presses past the familiar, noting that the Greek behind "why are you so afraid" isn't phobeo but deilos — cowardly — the same word used in Revelation 21 for those cast into the lake of fire alongside the faithless. The question lands with weight: why are you acting like unbelievers? The heart of this episode turns on the opening words — "on that day, when evening had come." The storm was no accident but a divine appointment; Jesus called for it. His expectation was not that the disciples would understand how deliverance would come, but that they would trust what he had already said: let us go across to the other side. Augustine's image of "Christ asleep in you" anchors the application, and Travis offers a working definition of faith Pastor Steven promises to preach: faith is believing God is who he says he is, and that he will do what he says he will do. Larry then previews his Sunday evening devotional on Job 38:8, where the same God who stilled the sea tells the proud waves, thus far and no further. The disciples' trembling question — who then is this? — is Job's school of humility in a single boat on a single night. He ordains the storm, appoints the hour, and carries his people to the other side.