{"id":39167,"date":"2026-02-05T00:58:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T07:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=39167"},"modified":"2026-02-05T01:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:03:13","slug":"260205-unstirred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/260205-unstirred\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover the Unstirred Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-39168 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/260205_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/260205_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/260205_1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Christ-followers contract malaria, bury children, and battle addictions, and, as a result, face fears. It\u2019s not the absence of storms that sets us apart. It\u2019s whom we discover in the storm\u2014an unstirred Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew 8:24 says, \u201cJesus was sleeping.\u201d Now there\u2019s a scene. The disciples scream, and Jesus dreams. \u201cDo you not care that we are perishing?\u201d (NKJV). \u00a0Fear corrodes our confidence in God\u2019s goodness. It unleashes a swarm of anger-stirring doubts. Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia. It makes us forget what Jesus has done and how good God is. Jesus takes our fears seriously. Don\u2019t be afraid.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39136 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1-unnamed-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more\u00a0<a title=\"Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear\" href=\"https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=bed511e434184985961d50fcb&amp;id=9b902a967d&amp;e=0716428f80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Dbed511e434184985961d50fcb%26id%3D9b902a967d%26e%3D0716428f80&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1770183312233000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3hdm26pJLYkcxo7TlXr0ah\"><em>Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christ-followers contract malaria, bury children, and battle addictions, and, as a result, face fears. It\u2019s not the absence of storms that sets us apart. It\u2019s whom we discover in the storm\u2014an unstirred Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew 8:24 says, \u201cJesus was sleeping.\u201d Now there\u2019s a scene. The disciples scream, and Jesus dreams. \u201cDo you not care that we are perishing?\u201d (NKJV).  Fear corrodes our confidence in God\u2019s goodness. It unleashes a swarm of anger-stirring doubts. Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia. It makes us forget what Jesus has done and how good God is. Jesus takes our fears seriously. Don\u2019t be afraid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39169,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39167\/revisions\/39169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}