Calming the Sea

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Reformed, Study, Jesus, Preaching, Christianity, Scripture, Spirit, Bible, Holy, Theology, Christian, God, Teaching

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🗓️ 4 May 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

After Jesus rebuked a storm on the Sea of Galilee, everything became calm—except the disciples. From his exposition of the gospel of Mark, today R.C. Sproul explains why Christ’s disciples were more afraid of Jesus than the wind and waves.

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Meet Today’s Teacher:

R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew’s Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.

Meet the Host:

Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.

Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts

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0:00.0	We don't have a category for somebody who can speak to the waves and they listen to him.
0:06.2	This one is in a class by himself.
0:08.8	This one is so alien, so other, that there is no compartment for us to include him.
0:19.2	As soon as he manifests, his transcendent majesty, they are reduced to terror.
0:30.8	What does Jesus' calming of the sea teach us about the holiness of God, the otherness, the majesty of God.
0:38.2	Stay tuned for this Sunday edition of Renewing Your Mind.
0:42.3	Coming out of a season, reflecting on the final week before the death and resurrection of Jesus,
0:48.4	we're taking a break to go back to earlier in his ministry for a sermon series from Mark's Gospel
0:54.0	that shows the power of Jesus
0:55.9	on full display. We'll only spend four weeks in Mark's Gospel, so if you want to dig deeper,
1:02.4	be sure to request the hardcover volume of R.C. Sproles' commentary on Mark by giving a donation
1:07.9	of any amount at Renewing Your Mind.org before midnight tonight.
1:13.0	Well, here's Dr. Spraw on the calming of the sea.
1:18.3	If you've ever been to Israel and had the opportunity to take a boat ride on the Sea of Galilee,
1:26.7	I'm sure you experience the warnings of those who took you on such a voyage, that even with
1:36.5	the modern equipment that sailors use today to navigate the Sea of Galilee, that there is
1:43.9	always a profound and imminent danger of sudden
1:48.4	storms that arise without warning. There are reasons for that climatically and geographically,
1:57.4	and we realize that the topography of that region in the Sea of Galilee
2:02.8	has not changed very much in the last 2,000 years.
2:07.9	Mountains that were present then remain present now, and the sea level of the Sea of
2:15.4	Galilee is basically the same today as it was in Jesus' day.
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