coming up on a special edition of turning point today dr. David Jeremiah addresses where we can go for shelter in the storms of life will there be storms along the journey certainly will our voyage be comfortable we’re learning right now that it’s not comfortable all the time no assurance that we will ever have a completely comfortable life we might have to worry about seasickness but what I’m here to tell you is you don’t need to worry about drowning we will get through the storms in
our lives and we will arrive where Jesus is taking us that’s coming up today on a special edition of turning 40 in times like these we often ask why is this happening when will everything go back to normal and perhaps the most pressing question of all where is God when it feels like everything is falling apart in his book shelter in God your refuge in times of trouble dr.
David Jeremiah reminds you that even in periods of chaos God is right beside you exactly where he has always been and always will be God is a fortress you can run to whenever you feel frustrated uncertain or afraid and he will always be enough in this deeply personal book dr. Jeremiah draws inspiration from the Psalms to reveal God as a refuge during seasons of suffering as you read you’ll learn how to shelter in his presence and power even as you shelter in place request shelter and God your refuge in times of trouble for a gift of any amount in support of this program
when the Andrea Gail left Gloucester Harbor in Massachusetts on September the 20th 1991 and headed into the North Atlantic no one could have known that this fishing boat would never be seen again only a bit of debris ever turned up in the six crew members vanished forever in his book the perfect storm author Sebastian Junger immortalized the fate of the Andrea Gail a film followed featuring George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg but these stars big as they are played only supporting roles the real star of the film was the storm itself a terrifying
relentless oppressor born of fierce winds and mountainous waves it was meteorologists who named this cataclysmic Tempest the perfect storm it is just a way of saying worst case scenario in the case of the Andrea Gail it was the simultaneous convergence of the toughest weather conditions possible three deadly elements came together in October of 1991 first of all there was a front moving from Canada toward New England and a high-pressure system building over Canada’s east coast and the dying remnants of hurricane grace all of them churning along the eastern seaboard
of the United States strong weather was coming from three of the four points on the compass and all of it converging on the little Andrea Gail the last radio transmission of Billy Tyne the captain of the fishing boat came at 6:00 p.m. on October 28th 1991 he reported his coordinates to the captain of his sister ship the Hannah Boden saying she’s coming on boys and she’s coming on strong the popular book and the movie brought the term perfect storm into common use but the concept is as old as humanity people have always had to deal with the convergence of multiple rough
