You're going to do. Welcome to Sermons from Holy Trinity.

Holy Trinity Lutheran Church is committed to the preaching of Jesus Christ crucified and

risen for the justification of the sinner by grace through faith for Jesus sake

and now a sermon from Pastor William Swerla of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church.

In the name of Jesus, who is this that even the wind and sea obey him. Miracles come in various shapes and sizes. Some are small

and isolated. Jesus healing Peter's mother-in-law of a fever.

Some are fun and almost frivolous.

Jesus making 100 gallons of wine at a wedding run dry. This one today is didactic and large of titanic proportions

you might say. Jesus calms a storm on the sea of Galilee with two little imperatives from his lips

and the wind and waves obey him.

After a day of parable speaking, the disciples load Jesus into one of their boats, at least four of them were fishermen after all, so they had boats, to go across the sea of Galilee to the other side,

presumably to get away from the crowds.

They put Jesus in the boat just as he was,

it says, which is a rather odd way of putting it.

Just as he was, perhaps suggesting

that he was tired near exhaustion with heavy eyes

and dragging feet, which would explain

why he fell asleep so easily on the trip.

Other boats went with them, too, indicating that this miracle had plenty of eyewitnesses who could

later corroborate this story with their yes I was

there too a great storm arose that wasn't surprising given the mountains that

surround the sea of Galilee and its

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