“Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm" Mark 4:38-39 Click here to read the complete story here. People go down to sea for many reasons. Some for recreation; making a living; escaping oppression; a ferry for transportation. In this familiar story, Jesus and the disciples get in a boat to cross to the sea. A storm nearly swamps the boat as Jesus sleeps. They wake him. He rebukes the sea. The storm ends. However, this isn't a story about "the storms of life" or and facing them by trusting Jesus in your fears. The deeper story is Jesus silencing the storm and rebuking it. Those "silence" and "rebuke" are exorcism words Mark often uses in Jesus’ ministry. As strange as it sounds, Jesus is not offering therapy for our fears but an exorcism for a world out of whack. The point of this story is a revelation. The stilling...