{"id":189,"date":"2011-10-13T00:02:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T00:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners\/?p=189"},"modified":"2011-10-13T00:06:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T00:06:34","slug":"jesus-walks-on-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners\/2011\/10\/jesus-walks-on-water.html","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Walks On Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the crazy story about Peter and Jesus walking on water (Matthew 14:22-33)? \u00a0To refresh our memories&#8230;Peter and the disciples are out in a boat in the middle of the night when Jesus appears, taking a little stroll on the lake and looking a bit, well, ghostly. \u00a0(Who wouldn&#8217;t, after all, in such circumstances and at such an hour?) \u00a0So Peter calls out, &#8220;Lord, if it&#8217;s you, tell me to come to you on the water.&#8221; \u00a0Jesus&#8217; answer in the affirmative provides Peter with just enough courage to step out of the boat and onto the water.<\/p>\n<p>What follows has inspired many a sermon on the need for faith- Peter&#8217;s faith, our faith, you catch the drift- with the implication being that if we all only had a bit more faith, we all might walk on water. \u00a0The problem with this, of course, is that it isn&#8217;t really good news for most of us. Most of us do not have that kind of faith, and frankly never will.<\/p>\n<p>The really good news here is that\u00a0<em>Jesus<\/em>\u00a0walks on water, and comes to us when we call out in our faltering moments of fear, distrust and despair.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sarcasticlutheran.typepad.com\">Nadia Bolz-Weber<\/a>\u00a0articulates this truth winningly in a recent sermon delivered to her congregation in Denver, Colorado and I commend it to you: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sarcasticlutheran.typepad.com\/sarcastic_lutheran\/2011\/08\/jesus-walking-on-the-water-a-sermon-sarcastic-and-serious.html\">http:\/\/sarcasticlutheran.typepad.com\/sarcastic_lutheran\/2011\/08\/jesus-walking-on-the-water-a-sermon-sarcastic-and-serious.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the crazy story about Peter and Jesus walking on water (Matthew 14:22-33)? \u00a0To refresh our memories&#8230;Peter and the disciples are out in a boat in the middle of the night when Jesus appears, taking a little stroll on the lake and looking a bit, well, ghostly. \u00a0(Who wouldn&#8217;t, after all, in such circumstances and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,69,68,25],"tags":[72,70,71],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-good-news","category-grace","category-jesus","tag-jesus-walks-on-water","tag-matthew-1422-33","tag-peter-walks-on-water"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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