Mark 4:35-41 - Jesus is in the boat

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This sermon was recorded at the Rosedale Fellowship gathering, of which Cahaba Valley is a part. Rosedale is the only African American neighborhood in Homewood, and Cahaba Valley got involved with the Rosedale churches as a part of a social justice effort to keep Rosedale from being taken over and developed for business and commercial use. This is a gathering held every 5th Sunday, and JJ preached at the last one held this year.

Mark 4:35-41
On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, ‘Let us go across to the other side.’ And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. A great gale arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and said to him, ‘Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?’ He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, ‘Peace! Be still!’ Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm. He said to them, ‘Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?’ And they were filled with great awe and said to one another, ‘Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?’