Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and bestselling author Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life. What do you do in moments of trouble

when it feels like God is silent or doesn't seem to care at all? In today's episode, we continue our

sermon series from the archives,

the gospel according to Mark,

as Paul walks through the story of Jesus calming the storm

and shows how the disciples' fearful questions

expose what truly rules their hearts.

To hear more sermons from Paul,

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Here's Paul with today's message.

It really is the watershed question. Who is God anyway? It really is the question of the passage that we're going to look at briefly this evening.

It's right for us to think about this question in the middle of this service of celebration and

worship where we remember who God is, remember what he has done, we remember

the grace of his son, because you would recognize it is surely easy, easier to answer that

question tonight than it will be maybe on Tuesday afternoon, or on Wednesday when you face something

unthinkable. How do you answer that question in moments of difficulty when God is responding

in ways that are unexpected where it seems like he's not there,

where it seems like he doesn't care, where it seems like he doesn't hear.

Is there a disconnect between your celebration this evening and the low-level anxiety that you will feel sometime this week,

or maybe the drop-dead panic that you will experience in some unthinkable moment.

You can turn there in your order of worship to Mark 4, and we find ourselves in one of the most

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