Tag: storm

  • Tossed About in a Sinking Ship

    How will you deal with the demise of your own failing flesh aboard the sinking ship of this brief life? Acts of the Apostles 27 Sailing so slowly into a billowing whirlwind of destruction. That’s how it must have felt for the Roman Centurion Julian, various guards and now others aboard a large Greek merchant…

    But they struck a sandbar and ran the ship aground. The bow jammed fast and remained immovable, while the stern began to break up by the pounding of the waves. Acts 27:41 CSB rendering of shipwreck of the Apostle Paul
  • Swept asunder by the Tempest of a Euroclydon

    “O you afflicted one,Tossed with tempest, and not comforted,Behold, I will lay your stones with colorful gems,And lay your foundations with sapphires. In righteousness you shall be established;You shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear;And from terror, for it shall not come near you. Isaiah 54:11,14 NKJV “Men, I perceive that this…

    model of a Roman sailing ship designed to haul cargo such as one on which the Apostle Paul was transported to Rome as a prisoner
  • a 21st c. Tempest

    And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep. – Mat. 8:24 KJV It seems the winds of change come upon us suddenly and violently. We resist the inevitable, either turning toward the strong winds of change or looking aimlessly askance at the…