Walking on Water

Our text this week is from Matthew 14, where Jesus sticks around on shore to pray and the disciples all head out into the Sea of Galilee in a boat.  A huge storm comes up, everyone freaks out, and Jesus walks on water to rescue them.  Although it has been done to death, I think there are still valuable things to learn from this incident -- which is why I'm going to preach on it Sunday.

However, I don't know how to blog on it without either retyping my sermon, being cheesy and lame, or referencing someone else's (John Ortberg) much more eloquent and marketable work.

That leaves me with little else to do other than to give you some pictures and challenge you to consider the context of Matthew's boat story.  It's right after Jesus feeds 5000 people with a couple fish and several slices of bread.  It's right after Jesus tells everyone that the Kingdom is like a tiny mustard seed that grows into a huge bush.  What does this have to do with walking on water?  You tell me.

Oh yeah, your pictures.  Here they are:

The Sea of Galilee -- not just a puddle in the desert.

The view from the Disciples' position.

The single most awesome picture I could find showing the incident.