Chad Mason preaches Mark 4:35–41 — the story of Jesus calming the storm on the Sea of Galilee. In this message, Chad explores the contrast between how the disciples and Jesus each interpreted the same storm, unpacks why the disciples were more terrified after Jesus stilled the waves than during them, and addresses the hard theological question: if God can calm storms, why doesn't he stop all of them? This sermon lands in real grief — the first anniversary of the July 4th Guadalupe River flood that devastated families in our own community, and this week's earthquakes in Venezuela — and offers a word that isn't easy but is true: peace is not found when storms cease. It's found when you know Jesus, who is with you in the storm. Part of FBC Boerne's ongoing series in the Gospel of Mark.

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Mark 4:21–34 | Pastor Jason Smith
FBC Boerne — Gospel of Mark Series

Corrie ten Boom was furious about the fleas. Imprisoned at Ravensbruck, assigned to a barracks crawling with them, it felt like the final evidence that God had abandoned her. Her sister Betsy quoted 1 Thessalonians 5:18 — give thanks in all circumstances — and eventually, reluctantly, Corrie did.

Months later she learned the guards had refused to enter Barracks 28 because of the fleas. The very thing she'd raged against had been shielding hundreds of women as they read Scripture together, worshipped, and came to faith in Jesus.

At the beginning, all she could see were the fleas. At the end, she saw the hand of God.

In this Father's Day message, Pastor Jason Smith opens Mark 4:21–34 — the lamp on the lampstand, the growing seed, and the mustard seed — and works through the question the disciples were quietly carrying: if the kingdom of God is here, why doesn't it look like it? The crowds are shrinking. The opposition is growing. This is not what they expected.

Jesus answers with parables that reframe everything. The kingdom isn't hidden — but it requires ears to hear. It grows even when no one can see it. And what looks impossibly small today will one day be the place of refuge for people from every tribe, tongue, and nation on earth.

A message for anyone in a season where faithfulness feels fruitless and the harvest seems a long way off.

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Continuing our series through the Gospel of Mark, Pastor Daniel Justice unpacks the Parable of the Sower (Mark 4:1-20) and a question every believer eventually faces: how do we make sense of the mixed responses we see to Jesus around us? Through four soils and one sower, Jesus prepares His disciples, and us, to sow faithfully no matter the soil, because the harvest is certain.

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