Why don't you tell me what happened?

I was with Jesus all day so we get on a boat to cross the lake and you know more boats come to

I guess they were all so caught up in following him that they didn't even see it coming.

See what coming? That storm last night. I have never been on the lake in a storm like that

and there Jesus is, in the stern, laying down, fast asleep. We walk him up, we ask the teacher,

do you not care if we perish? How did he answer? He shouted at the storm, quiet, be still!

And then get this, the wind just stopped, the lake completely flat. How did that make you feel?

That part was awesome. But then he turned to us, he looked me right in the eye and he said,

why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?

I am very, very excited to start a brand new message series called The Counselor.

And today I want to welcome those of you at all of our different life churches.

Those of you at our partnering network churches and our extended family all over the world

at church online. Thank you so much for taking time to worship with us. If you have your

Bibles with you or you want to follow along in you version, we're going to be in Mark chapter 4

today as we start a brand new message series about Jesus that I'm calling The Counselor.

Now I don't know how many of you have ever been to counseling before. I've actually been to

two different rounds of counseling and I think there's a lot of wisdom when you need help

to find someone who's wiser than you that can help you find direction. Quite honestly, the first

time I went, I did not want to go. I was forced to go by my overseers because they said I had a

problem being a workaholic. The second time I actually went on my own will because I recognized

they were right and I needed to get some help. And so I went for that reason and also for another

reason I'll tell you about a little later in the message. But quite honestly, I was the second

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