The sea - the turbulent, unpredictable, wild, stormy sea. Our story begins with Jesus, standing on the edge of the Sea of Galilee, saying to the apostles, "Let us cross to the other side." As they crossed, the wind began to blow, the waves began to rise, and Jesus began to sleep.

Have you ever been in a storm at sea or on a wind-tossed lake? One sea captain describes a storm at Cape Horn at the tip of South America like this:

This mighty swell of waters that giant forces seem to be pressing upon us, this crowding together of millions of tons of turbulent water, creates a sharp piling up of eddies and backwaters in which the largest ship can become unmanageable. Current fights swell, and the rocks wait with the cold sea snarling impatiently around them. It is not an ordinary ocean swell rol…