The Storm on the Sea of Galilee is famous painting dated 1633. The painting shows the disciples and God on a fishing boat when God calls a storm and a huge wave is crashing over the boat as it is drifting towards a rocky bank. The disciples are crying out in fear, and God replies “Why are ye fearful, O yes of little faith?” (Zell) Not only does this painting represent the power of God, but also the power of nature and how man is helpless towards it. (The Rembrant Teaching Project ) The disciples are fisher man but also deliver the word of God, this shows that at this time all they can do is hold on and trust in God. (The Rembrant Teaching Project ) At times life can get rough and rocky, but trust in your one and only God and things will settle …show more content…
You see a small boat with so many people on it. Everyone except for one man at the top look terrified, some are throwing up over the edge of the boat, others just look terrified. The one man that the top of the boat (God), looks calm. I feel as though this tells us the sometimes life gets rough, we might have waves come and try and turn us over, but look to the one true person we should never doubt for help.
The next thing that my eye is drawn to is the small amount of light coming from the sky in the top left corner. I believe that this is Jesus talking to the disciples, and calming their fears. When you are scared or fearful of something, don’t just continue to be scared and fearful, ask for forgiveness and remember the God isn’t going to give you anything you can’t handle. Life gets rough, we have struggles, we get fearful, we get scared, but not matter what God is always right there by our side to pick us up when we fall. The third thing that the eye is drawn to is the darkness the surrounds that boat and the disciples. This is Gods way of showing them that he is serious, he is challenging them. This can relate to our world today by the struggles that we face every day. Our world can get
In his piece “The Storm” Elijah Paschelke reflects upon his 7 months in solitary confinement. He states that he “will never see the world the way I did before,” and then continues “I will never not see it the way I did before.” This statement suggests that he used to not notice the world around him, hence “not seeing”. He vows that he will never live the way that he did before because his time in prison has made him more appreciative of the smaller things in life.
Somehow I related to this painting at the moment. Looking back in the distance in the sky you see that there was a turbulent time. Saturday was such an awful morning. When backing up you see the bottom of the picture. The lush lively flowers show the bright side happy ending. This was my reminder that there is a calm after the storm just like in the picture.
The historical fictional novel, Salt to the Sea, by Ruta Sepetys, takes four main characters, Florian, Joana, Alfred, and Emilia, on one shocking adventure to get onto the ship, the Wilhelm Gustloff, to escape the war that’s hunting them throughout Germany. They encounter death, happiness, and tragedy, which brings them closer. Their lives intervene as they learn to forget their past and get a fresh start. One theme that is learned by the characters is that honesty bonds people together and builds trust, while lies ruin that trust.
Probably one of the most well-known disciples, Simon Peter was the first called to be a part of Jesus' ministry. He willingly left his life's occupation as a fisherman to follow the new and unorthodox teacher that some said was the prophesied one. After Jesus summoned Peter (and his brother), the Bible states that he told him (them), “...Follow me and I will make you fishers of men”(Matt. 4:19). What did Peter interpret this saying to mean? Although he probably didn't understand a single word, Matthew 4:20 and Mark 1:18 both record that Peter followed Jesus “immediately”. Unafraid to follow a man whom he hardly knew, Peter made a life-changing decision in leaving his line of work. No longer bound to the life of a fisherman, he was able to completely devote himself to the Lord's occupation. Because he made himself available, Simon Peter would soon experience the change that Jesus could bring into his heart. He was to be transformed into a completely different man in only the few years of Jesus ministry on Earth.
McMurphy organizes a fishing trip for the patients where he takes twelve patients and teaches them the ways of life. Jesus has twelve disciples and several of them are fishermen as he declares he would make them “fishers of men”. During the trip McMurphy tests their strengths and gives them a sense of power. Chief Bromden, the narrator, describes a sense of change within the patients after the trip, as he says they “weren’t the same
The first thing to see, looking away over the water, was a kind of dull line - that was the woods on t'other side; you couldn't make nothing else out; then a pale place in the sky; then more paleness spreading around; then the river softened up away off, and warn't black any more, but gray; you could see little dark spots drifting along ever so far away-trading-scows, and such things; and long black streaks-rafts ... and by and by you could see a streak on the water which you know by the look of the streak that there's a snag there in a swift current which breaks on it and makes that streak look that way; and you see the mist curl up off of the water, and the east reddens up.
While being spiritually strong with God, one must also feel physically strong. This is proven when Jesus wants his disciples to get some rest after spreading the word of God. This passage also focuses a lot on the disciples and what they think of Jesus during this time. When Jesus tells the disciples to feed the people, they reply in a way that seems a little disrespectful. “That would take eight months of a man’s wages!
Apparently, the disciples obeyed the Lord by going to Bethsaida. However, given that Jesus did not arrive and was already getting dark, they decided to cross the Sea again but now towards Capernaum. It was during this journey that not only the overnight, but also a strong wind. Likewise, the evangelist seems to want to establish a contrast between the disciples, who were amidst the Sea, and Jesus, who was on solid ground. In this sense, the level of faith and obedience between the disciples and Jesus are so greatly marked by the
Based on an actual incident in 1853, Ivan Doig’s The Sea Runners chronicles about the escape of four Swedish indentured servants from a fur trade fort in 1850’s Russian-America. As the story unfolds and in order to seek opportunity in the new world, many Europeans, including four Swedes sign on to an indenture with the Russian-American Company (RAC) in New Archangel located in what is modern-day Sitka, Alaska. After two years, the four Swedes have enough of it and plot their escape. After stealing supplies and a native canoe, they set off for the U.S. city of Astoria, 1000 uncharted miles south. They face many adversaries, including storms, rocks, angry Russians and Koloshes (name given by the Russians to the indigenous people along the coast).
A strong wind blew down the lake so they were in danger Ÿ The disciples woke Jesus up to calm the storm, Jesus ordered the storm and water to go down and asked the disciples “where is your faith?” Ÿ The disciples were amazed. Jesus attitude in this scripture was helping and courageous.
18:12–14; John 10:11–18.) Christ is the shepherd both to the meandering individual and to His scattered individuals, and the message of trust in Ezekiel's words applies both to the one lost sheep and to the straying
When Jesus and his disciples were on this boat, there was a huge storm at sea. When the disciples asked Jesus to make it stop, he said to them “‘Why are you afraid, you of little faith?”. As Jesus then got up and calmed the storm, the disciples were amazed at what had happened. Jesus was asking the disciples why they did not have faith that God would help them through the storm. Jesus was trying to tell the disciples that they should have no doubts in their faith for God.
When Jesus called His disciples, His invitation was simple. He invited them to follow Him. The same is true today. In Matthew 28, Jesus gave His last charge to His disciples, and the charge was simple. He called his followers to go and make disciples. Much effort has been placed by Christians to fulfill this charge, commonly referred to as the Great Commission. Jesus chose to fulfill the implementation of the New Covenant through 12 men who He called, appointed, and commissioned, and he only had a few short years to prepare them for the task (Willson, 1990). His methods were unconventional and were revolutionary for that time. His disciples were to be trained extensively by Jesus, living with Him for three years prior to His ascension. He taught about servant leadership and its meaning for both the leader and follower Matt. 20:25-28). From the beginning, Jesus put in place a careful plan, and an examination of His actions in the Gospels showed that Jesus left behind the pattern to be replicated. His methods, which included the incorporation of three different levels of discipleship, included His interaction with Peter, His closest three (Peter, James, and John), and finally the group of 12. This paper identified and analyzed the three levels of discipleship Jesus modeled, these discipleship methods were then measured against modern leadership theories, and Jesus’s level of involvement and interaction with his disciples were critiqued in light of these modern theories in an effort to determine the effectiveness of this approach.
It was for the longest time previously believed that as a result of lack of technology, each ancient civilisation was able to survive through the act of self-sustaining, and would therefore use what they had within their own lands to grow food, build shelters and make whatever weaponry/ other tools they needed. If this had been what actually occurred then it is likely that we would have seen little to no interaction between the civilisations which had existed. However, through constant work and research evidence has appeared to provide us with information that the prior thinking wasn’t right. We generally see answers uncovered through the emergence of shipwrecks within the Mediterranean, which was also expressed by A.J. Parker, who accounted
Art is important to religion in many different ways. Perhaps none has analyzed how art and religion have influenced and affected each other through the ages. Pictures painted of past events that help to bring back the feeling and importance of the past have been forgotten by some. To the one’s that haven’t forgotten are able to see the event’s as the bible says they happened. Not only can you see the events, but it also allows the younger students of the church to understand the events. The use of images of God became widespread after the second century. This religious art has defiantly been around for centuries and plays an important role to the history of religion as well as the future.