Isaiah 55:1-5 Matthew 14:13-21 It’s hard to know what there is new to say about this story which shows up in all four Gospels: a story which you and many of those who gather likely know by heart. It takes little to recall the energy of the massive crowd, the disciples’ frustration, the apparently meager …
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Jesus Walking Toward Us In This Storm…
Matthew 14:22-33 If the story of the disciples at sea battered by wind and wave is not a story which speaks to our circumstance today, I surely do not know what is. Indeed, I have said more than once to more than one trusted listener that every decision is hard these days. Every single one. …
Getting Out Of The Boat
Matthew 14:22-33 No doubt about it, the disciples are in trouble by the time we catch up to them in this piece of Matthew’s Gospel. While Jesus has been praying alone on that mountain they have found themselves on the Sea of Galilee in a boat that is ‘battered by the waves, far from the …