This week we begin a new series called Overcoming Fear, and in week one we look at the storm on the sea in Mark 4:35-41 to see how fear so often distorts the truth of what is actually happening. We unpack how the disciples let the storm control the narrative, convincing themselves that Jesus did not care, and we walk through five steps for responding to fear biblically: naming the threat, exposing fear's story, identifying what that story is producing in us, choosing the faithful response, and resting in the presence of God. Using the example of the three Hebrew boys before King Nebuchadnezzar we see what it looks like to declare that God is able, even if the outcome is not what we hoped. We close with the reminder that Jesus was already in the boat before the storm ever stopped, and that His presence, not the absence of trouble, is what gives us peace. The storm does not get the final word. Fear does not get the final word. Jesus does.