Jesus Calms the Storm/s Mark 4:35-41

Send us Fan MailIn this famous Gospel story, Jesus is in a boat with the disciples when a huge storm comes along. There are gale force winds. The waves are so turbulent they toss the boat around and water starts to flood into the boat. The disciples are genuinely worried for their lives, even though 4 of them were fisherman and know the seas intimately. And Jesus? He's asleep. How can he sleep through this? They wake Jesus in fear and say, "Don't you care that we are perishing?" Jesus wakes, stills the wind, says, 'Peace be still' to the sea and all is well. Having calmed the outer storm, now Jesus has to address the storms in the disciples for having been rattled in the first place and then rattled again that nature is at Jesus command. Our focus is on the storm of the wind and waves, but there's a bigger storm Jesus has calm and it's within his followers. Music between the scripture and sermon "I Feel the Winds of God" (Voices United Hymnal #625). Words: Jessie Adams, 1907. Music: English and Irish traditional melody, arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1906. Words copyright 1933, National Adult School Organization. Arrangement by Permission of Oxford University Press. Podcast/Streamed with Permission under One License Number: A-607425 & CCLI 2453477