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March 27, 2018 By Mike Landry

Unfolding John 5:1-18

Jesus healed people.

This is the sort of no-brainer statement that ranks up there with “ice is cold” or “rocks are hard.”  Even someone with the most superficial understanding of the Gospel knows that many of Jesus miracles in the Gospels involved healing (and a number of the miracles we still see today, particularly those which relate to canonizations) still involve healing.

When we look at many of Jesus’ miracles – like the subject of this week’s study, John 5:1-18 (Jesus healing the lame man), two questions come to mind.

  1. Why did Jesus perform all of these miracles?
  2. Why does God allow good people to suffer (and thus to require His healing)?

The first question is easier to answer than the second one. [Read more…] about Unfolding John 5:1-18

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Filed Under: BibleStudy, Reflections Tagged With: Crucifixion, healing, Jesus, miracles, Suffering

July 9, 2015 By Mike Landry

Worth it.

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I wrote this a few years ago after hearing a particularly painful incident from a young person I was serving.

If you were the only person on earth, Christ would have still suffered and died for you.  (St. Augustine)

Tonight, I had a profound realization.  You are the reason why we do all of this. [Read more…] about Worth it.

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Filed Under: Food for thought, Reflections Tagged With: healing, hope, Youth Ministry

January 9, 2014 By Mike Landry

Unfolding Scripture: Mark 3

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At the beginning of Mark 3, Jesus cures a man with a withered hand (3:1-6). This isn’t abnormal, except that He performs this healing on the Sabbath day – infuriating the Pharisees.  Jesus, in turn,  “…looked around at them with anger; he was grieved at their hardness of heart” (3:5) – and this is the only time that we read Jesus ever regarding a person or group of people with anger.  He looks with sadness, with compassion, with love, but the fact that the Pharisees just don’t seem to get it provokes this response from the Lord. [Read more…] about Unfolding Scripture: Mark 3

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Filed Under: BibleStudy, Food for thought Tagged With: apostles, Bible, bible study, blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, gospel of mark, healing, pharisees

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