Daily observations about following Jesus
(Today is a guest post from Rich Dixon, a new and frequent commenter here. I asked him to help me understand this text. He did. ) Jesus sees a man sitting beside a therapy pool. The guy’s been paralyzed for thirty-eight years. Jesus asks a surprising question. “Do you want to get well?” I wonder […]
Read More…Jesus told a man that his son would be healed. The man took Jesus at his word and headed home. Perhaps the man was good at taking direction because he worked for the king. That was certainly true for another healing situation. A centurion (military commander of 100 soldiers) wanted a servant healed. Jesus offered […]
Read More…My parents never let us say “shut up.” At one point in our history, one of us three would say “shut up…your mouth” as a way to avoid the inevitable look of disapproval. “Shut up” is pretty much what a crowd of people was saying to two men who couldn’t see. The men were by […]
Read More…Jesus healed a man who couldn’t see and couldn’t speak. He condemns some men who could. The former had a demon, an evil spirit, an agent of satan. The latter accused Jesus of working for satan. The former caused people to begin to ask serious, thoughtful questions about the identity of Jesus, about his role […]
Read More…“How come Jesus told people not to talk about how he healed them?” That’s a great question. It’s a question that someone asked me recently. It’s a question that I’ve wondered about and have made up answers to and have never really looked at. Until just now. It wasn’t because I was actually doing the […]
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