The media called 2010 “The Year The Earth Struck Back.” Take your pick–tsunamis, typhoons, and tornados. What is called “Natural Disasters” killed a quarter of a million people in that 12 month period. More people were killed world-wide by natural disasters in 2010 than were killed in terrorism attacks in the past 40 years combined.[1]

When it comes to Breaking News you can always count every year on some natural disaster interrupting your regularly scheduled programming. Let’s just take four of them and we will do it in recent chronological order.

[Pastor’s note: Photographs of each disaster are included in the PowerPoint file for this message.]

August 29, 2005 - Hurricane Katrina slams into the Mississippi Coast and the City of New Orleans resulting in the costliest natural disaster i…