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 […]
Worth it.
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 […]
Unfolding Scripture: Mark 3
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 […]