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How do you respond in moments of difficulty when God doesn't seem to care?

Today we're going to continue through Paul's sermon series in the book of Mark, and in this

sermon, Paul tells the story of Jesus calming the storm and how the disciples' questions reveal

what truly rules their hearts.

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Now here's Paul with this message from the Gospel of Mark.

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 familiar of biblical stories where Jesus calms the storm. It's been a long day of ministry.

Jesus is probably wanting to get away from the crowd as he always would, and he asked his

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