Lesson on the deep blue sea
Kenneth Koole offers a pastoral exposition of Matthew 14:22-33, the account of Jesus walking on the sea, using this biblical narrative to address the contemporary experience of trials and suffering in the Christian life. Through reflective application, Koole explores how believers can maintain faith when Christ seems absent during life's storms, drawing comfort from God's sovereign providence and presence even in the deepest distresses.
And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away…. But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary. And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea. And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear…. Matthew 14:22-33 Men of faith crying out for fear. How...
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