{"id":3228,"date":"2015-06-20T10:30:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T10:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2015-06-26T15:09:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T15:09:47","slug":"calming-the-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=3228","title":{"rendered":"Calming the Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Storm-in-Manly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3229\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Storm-in-Manly.jpg\" alt=\"Storm in Manly\" width=\"287\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><\/strong><strong>Calming the storm, energy and power, who\u2019s in control?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who is this that even the wind and the storm obey him?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Trinity 3 June 21st 2015, Mark 4:35 &#8211; 41 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=3228\">full version in Sermons<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s go on a journey to the Sea of Galilee and \u00a0go back a few years, well let\u2019s make it 2000 years or so.<\/p>\n<p>A hot and sunny day, Jesus had been talking and talking and just wanted a few moments of peace and so drifted off to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>The Sea of Galilee (Kinneret) is in northeast Israel, near the Golan Heights in the Jordan Rift Valley, an area where there are earthquakes and previously volcanic activity It\u2019s a large fresh water lake about 10 miles by 7 miles and is the lowest freshwater lake on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus went out in the boat with the disciples to go the other side.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018A great gale arose, and the waves beat into the boat so that the boat was already swamped.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>And what was Jesus doing during this storm?<\/p>\n<p>Fast asleep in the stern of the boat! Imagine the wind raging the small boat boat being tossed around by the great waves\u2026. And Jesus was fast asleep.<\/p>\n<p>You can imagine that the disciples were panicking, Not surprising! So they wake him and ask,\u2019 Is he not bothered that they are about to sink!<\/p>\n<p>Jesus tells the wind to stop and the sea to be still.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Then the wind ceased and the sea was dead calm\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine their faces, \u2018<em>Who then is this that even the wind and the sea obey him?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Calming the storm, energy and power, who\u2019s in control and where is the fear?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Faith in Jesus and goodbye to fear!<\/p>\n<p><em>Rev&#8217;d Sue Martin &#8211; Faith Goes Walkabout<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calming the storm, energy and power, who\u2019s in control? Who is this that even the wind and the storm obey him? Trinity 3 June 21st 2015, Mark 4:35 &#8211; 41 (full version in Sermons) Let\u2019s go on a journey to the Sea of Galilee and \u00a0go back a few years, well let\u2019s make it 2000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[30,32,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-seasons","category-theological","category-trinity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}