The Savior and the Storm

Pastor’s Pen,

recently we've spent a lot of time talking about the weather. In fact it's been said that everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it! The past couple of weeks have shown us just how little control we have over temperature, precipitation or storms. And tornado season is just around the corner!

Our text this morning demonstrates the point that only God can control the weather. In the aftermath of Jesus teaching through parables about His kingdom , He is about to perform for miracles to demonstrate the validity of His claim to be the Messiah. In them he will demonstrate that he is the master over disaster, over demons, over disease and over death. Thus He is worthy of our worship        (3 :22).

This weekend our focus is on the first of these miracles, the stilling of the storm on the Sea of Galilee. In it we learn that the antidote to fear his personal faith and our powerful Savior.

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We appreciate those who help sanitize our facilities for services each Saturday morning in preparation for Sunday worship as well as those who make it possible for us to ‘live-stream’ on Facebook at 10:45 each Sunday morning, and to post each Sunday’s message on our website (www.fccwylie.org) on Sunday afternoons. 


If you haven't come out to worship with us recently, we sure love to have you! We continue to hold our Sunday services with all safety protocols and pre-service sanitizing in place. No Sunday school yet, and the nursery is not available.  We will continue following the protocols as outlined by GA-18 guidance.  Face masks, social distancing, no physical contact. We use bulletins printed untouched by human hands, with songs, etc. printed therein, and pre-packaged communion elements. Offering plates are located at the rear, or giving can be done online at www.fccwylie.org.


If you still feel uncomfortable attending, feel free to join our live stream on Facebook, at 10:45 AM, which includes communion and the worship hymns. Or the message is available each Sunday afternoon on our website. (www.fccwylie.org)


The Savior and the Storm                                                                                      Mark 4:35-41

  • The setting (35, 36)
  • A busy and pivotal day 
  • A change of scenery

  • The storm  (37-38)
  • The geography of the Golan Heights
  • The graphic contrast! Sudden storm…sleeping Savior
  • The gripe of the disciples 
  • The stilling (39, 40)
  • The rebuke of the elements
  • The rebuke of the disciples
  • The Savior 
  • The disciples’ restructured fear
  • The disciples’ recurring question

** The answer to our persistent fears is faith in our powerful Savior

PRAYER ITEMS

Rodney Love’s wife Beth—hospitalized ICU, with COVID and pneumonia, 

Jo’s nephew’s family—relocating to Houston

Shirley’s sister-in-law Stella Green Watson —radiation treatments

Jerry Bostick: wife passed, he is out of the hospital 


RADIO THIS WEEKEND: RADIO THIS WEEKEND: The airwaves continue to be saturated with advertising about Medicare, and what you don’t know about Medicare can hurt you!  Many people, especially those turning 65, have questions about when and how to enroll. Medicare authority Toni King of tonisays.com joins host Don Hawkins with practical answers to Medicare questions, this weekend on Encouragement Live.

Encouragement Live can be heard Saturday at 7:05 PM central time on American Family Radio (www.afr.net) and on theworshipchannel.org.  Re-broadcast Sunday 9 pm on The Worship Channel.

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