Sermon

Stay With the Ship

Tim Keller |  November 2, 2003

Topics:
  • Suffering
Duration:
40:19
Scripture:
Acts 27:15-32
SKU:
RS 171-09

Overview

The biggest problem people have in believing in God is probably the problem of evil and suffering.

In the Greek imagination, the voyage was a metaphor for your life’s journey, and a storm was a metaphor for the evil and suffering and tragedies that come upon us. In this passage in Acts, Luke is in a boat, and he includes this account to teach us about the problems of evil and suffering.

Let’s take a look at what he teaches under three headings: 1) the paradox of the storm, 2) the product of the storm, and 3) the presence in the storm.

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