While my family and I were on vacation earlier this summer, I tried paddle boarding for the first time, which is as close as I will ever get to walking on water: standing on board that can float on the water. In this week’s reading from Matthew’s Gospel, we read about Jesus actually walking on water. The disciples were understandably quite skeptical of this, even going so far as to assume that the figure they saw walking towards them across the water was a ghost. But as the story unfolds, we learn that it really is Jesus. How miraculous!
But what if the Good News in this story is not that Jesus walked on water, but why Jesus walked on water? What if the miracle in the story isn’t that Jesus walked on water but his reason for doing so?
I hope you will join us this Sunday at 8:30, 9:00, or 11:00 as we worship the Lord and reflect on these questions together!
Pastor Tyler Moore
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