Friends Church Sermons

We continue in our study of Matthew’s Gospel with the 3rd of his stories on fear vs faith. It happens on the heels of the last. If you remember the disciples have had a really tough day. It started in Capernaum where they worked to near exhaustion and continued in the wilderness outside of Bethsaida where they witnessed and participated in the feeding of the 5,000. Mathew says immediately after that miracle Jesus “made the disciples get into the boat” and begin rowing toward Genessaret just southwest of Capernaum where they started. The journey would be one of about 4 miles – but it turned into a much longer journey.