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While sailing out of criminal trial in Rome, the Apostle Paul encountered a terrifying storm.

Luke recorded the alarming details, and we can only imagine what it was like for the sailors as their wooden vessel began sinking beneath them.

Today on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall recounts this true story from biblical history

and helps us understand the application for our times.

Perhaps you find yourself weathering an unwanted storm in your life.

This passage contains four timeless anchors for survival.

Chuck titled today's message, How to Handle a Shipwreck.

I want to read just a few excerpts, if I may, from the 27th of Acts. If you're not familiar

with your Bible, that's the fifth book in the New Testament. And very near the end, this book

has 28 chapters written by a physician named Dr. Luke, who also wrote the gospel.

And Dr. Luke writes of this, and you see him appear in the tapestry of the text as you come across words like we and us and ourselves.

So Luke is in this scene. He was on the shipwrecked when they were shipwrecked.

Acts 27, let me begin in verse 1.

When it was decided that we should, that we would sail for Italy, they proceeded to deliver

Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustine cohort named Julius.

And embarking in an Adramidian ship which was about to sail to the regions along the coast

of Asia, we put out the sea accompanied by Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica. Verse 9. When considerable time had

passed and the voyage was now dangerous, since even the fast was already over, Paul began to admonish

them and said to them, men, I perceive that the voyage

will certainly be with damage and great loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also

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