Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Mark 4:35-41

  • When Jesus and the disciples are caught out in a storm, it is telling how they respond. And more importantly how they don’t.

  • Why is the anxiety of the disciples more relatable than the calmness of Jesus? And why doesn’t it seem to bother us more than it does?

  • For SundayFourth Sunday after Pentecost Collect O Lord, make us have perpetual love and reverence for your holy Name, for you never fail to help and govern those whom you have set upon the sure foundation of your loving-kindness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one…

  • In the stilling of the storm in Mark 4:35-41, Jesus opens the disciples to the frightening possibility that they were wrong. And it reminds us that Jesus has the same message for us. “Peace. Be still!” The fear Jesus gets his disciples to face is not the storm. It’s change. Proper 7B  |  Mark 4:35-41…