Randi Perez Helm (Michigan, USA)
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Sign Up TodayThe disciples woke [Jesus] and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?” - Mark 4:38 (NIV)
At first, when Jesus and his disciples were at sea during a terrible storm, Jesus was sound asleep. The waves were threatening all of their lives. “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?” Those words cut. I’d heard this passage in Mark before, but that day it expressed exactly the...
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I join many of those who will pray for you as you seek to discern what you are called to be at this moment. May God grant you the courage to fulfill that calling. May we all open our eyes and see the misery, open our ears and hear the cries of God’s people, and, like God through the Lord Jesus Christ, be incarnate amongst them.”
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