What do you think is Jesus greatest healing?
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It matters not the situation. In every situation Jesus meets people where they are, in the present “now moment” of their lives. He loves them.
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The miraculous healing opens the door for testimony about Jesus, which leads to the ultimate healing—the healing of estrangement from God. It is why I love people who use Pocket Testaments. It is a simple and direct way to invite people to meet Jesus. Have you ever shared one?
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It can be hard. When we are confronted with not merely words, but real physical facts, our minds naturally begin to ask, “But what about…” It is no different for the religious of his day. We read of their complaints. Those who believe they have cornered the market on God. Jesus understands. He challenges them. He demonstrates his authority again—arise and walk, and so the man does.
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We live in a fast-moving world. For you to move fast, what does it take? What I mean is, “For you to move fast, do you simply start out that way, or is there a process to gain speed?” For me, I can move fast, once I really learn something. We need to slow down through this part of John’s Gospel.
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Ideas have power. They move our lives in specific direction. Most of us know the ideas that are guiding us, at least at some level. When challenges comes into our lives these guiding ideas either confirm, confuse, or collapse our world. At times these situations and challenges, often painful, reveal wrong thinking, you might say, crossed-wires. In today's reading from John 9, Jesus exposes "crossed-wire" thinking.
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Distractions -- external and internal -- can stall, paralyze, or even misdirect our efforts. When we read scripture, there are so many things we could notice. I just don’t want us to get distracted. So today, I ask: what do you “see” in John 5:1-18? And what's is the point?
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Reputations are powerful. We certainly need to earn ours. But our reputation precedes us. If you do not know Jesus, if you only know a little about him... if his “reputation is preceding him," can you pause for a moment and consider a couple things?
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