How To Survive a Shipwreck

Feb 16, 2025 

GRAND PARKWAY BAPTIST CHURCH

Neil McClendon, Lead Pastor

How To Survive a Shipwreck
Acts 27


1. Have friends, v. 1-8

“I have many things to write you, but I don’t want to write to you with pen and ink. I hope to see you soon, and we will talk face to face. Peace to you. The friends send you greetings. Greet the friends by name.”

• 3 John 13-15
  
  

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’" 

• C.S. Lewis
  
  

2. Follow truth not money, v. 9-12

“For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.”

• I Timothy 6:10
  
  

3. Face the wind, v. 13-15


4. Allow the storm to clarify what is essential, v. 16-20


5. Listen to spiritual authority, v. 21-26

v. 24- “God has granted you all those who sail with you!” 


6. Have a means of measuring progress, v. 27-32

“They took a sounding...”


7. Find something to be thankful for, v. 33-38


“And when he had said these things, he took bread, and giving thanks to God in the presence of all he broke it and begin to eat.”


8. Do your part, v. 39-44

“He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and make for the land, and the rest on planks or on pieces of the ship. And so it was that all were brought safely to land.” 


Mental worship…

1. Who are the friends you look to in order to survive a storm?
2. What is your affection level towards money?
3. Are you avoiding anything or anybody that you need to face?
4. Before what people is it hardest for you to pray?
5. Have your emotions calibrated more towards the positive or the negative 
    because of the storms you’ve endured?
6. Looking back, what is the biggest storm you’ve been through and what 
    did God teach you about yourself, Himself and your faith?