Luke 8:22-25
(MULTILINE REVEAL SMALL)“IN JESUS, THE POWER OF GOD CAN AND DOES CONQUER THE POWERS OF DARKNESS ARRAYED AGAINST HIM.” Paul J. Achtemeier
Revelation 21:1
(MULTILINE REVEAL SMALL)AS JESUS IS ABOUT TO DISPLAY HIS POWER TO COMMAND THE SEA, HIS SLEEP IS A SIGN OF DIVINE SOVEREIGNTY.
In Christ alone my hope is found,
He is my light, my strength, my song;
This Cornerstone, this solid Ground,
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm.
What heights of love, what depths of peace,
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease!
My Comforter, my All in All,
Here in the love of Christ I stand.
(MULTILINE REVEAL SMALL)The better translation of, “We are perishing,” is, “We’ve had it!”
Psalm 89:9
Psalm 46:1-3
(MULTILINE REVEAL SMALL)FAITH PLACES COMPLETE CONFIDENCE IN GOD’S PROVIDENTIAL CARE AND PROTECTION WHATEVER THE DANGERS.
Charles Spurgeon said about fear: “It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.”
(MULTILINE REVEAL SMALL)“It is a tragedy that the Christian religion is in many minds identified merely with pious ethical behavior and vague theistic beliefs, suffused with aesthetic emotionalism and a mild glow of humanitarian benevolence. This is not the faith which first awakened the world like a thousand trumpets and made people feel it bliss in such a dawn to be alive. {People} knew what Christianity really was – the entrance into history of a force of immeasurable range.” James S. Stewart, Thine is the Kingdom, 1956
(MULTILINE REVEAL SMALL)CHRIST ON THE CROSS TAKES THE EVIL IN THE WORLD INTO HIMSELF AND BEARS IT AWAY THROUGH HIS DEATH.
Thank you, Father, for the privilege of being in the boat with Jesus, learning to trust him in all things, all the time. Amen.