healing – Page 3 – 300 words a day

looking for a reason

Sometimes you have conversations that are conversations. Sometimes questions are asked for the purpose of finding out the answer. “How is it with your soul?” is a question seeking an answer, trying to help someone else reflect. “What is the question you don’t want me to ask?” is a question about trust, about helping someone […]

by Jon Swanson

into the house

Two blind guys knew Jesus healed blind guys. They followed him. They called to him, “have mercy on us.” We don’t know how far the followed him. We don’t know where they started following him. We know that they were with him after he left the house of the formerly dead daughter. Whether they had […]

by Jon Swanson

Sometimes you have to reach out.

Two women were healed. One was a child, one was an adult. One had lost blood, the other had lost life. One was well-off. The other had spent everything. And Jesus healed them both. The child couldn’t speak for herself. She was dead. Her dad, a synagogue leader, a highly spiritual lay person, […]

by Jon Swanson

authority

Sometimes, no matter what you say, people get it wrong. All Jesus was trying to do was help. All he was doing was trying to be accurate. All he was trying to do was explain why he had, when a man was brought for healing, forgiven the man’s sins. The teachers of the law, when […]

by Jon Swanson

word of mouth

[Matthew 4:23-25] I’ve started reading about word of mouth marketing. I think that it’s helpful to understand how to get people talking about what you are offering. If you put up a billboard or run an advertising campaign or mail something to a thousand houses, that is you talking about you. And while talking about […]