Month: April 2023

The story of Jonah is famous because of the whale.

But it’s actually about a man being brought face to face with his own religious and racial bigotry.

Sometimes only a crisis can make you realise what you need to face up to.

Matthew retells the story of Jesus stilling the storm as part of a group of stories about how Jesus confronts all manner of hell-bent evil.

He did it because we need to hold onto the core truth of Jesus’ authority over everything – especially when things seem to be going wrong.

Storms come to all of us.

Without the storm Peter would have never had the chance to walk on water…