We don’t know her name, but we know her situation. Her world was midnight black. Grope-in-the-dark-and-hope-for-help black. Read these three verses and see what I mean: A large crowd followed Jesus and pushed very close around Him. Among them was a woman who had been bleeding for twelve years. She had suffered very much from…
The Hardest Thing God Ever Did
Understanding God’s Priority Mark 2:1-12 Which is easier: to tell this paralyzed man, “Your sins are forgiven,” or to tell him, “Stand up. Take your mat and walk”? — Mark 2:9Let’s talk for a minute about lovebursts. You’ve witnessed sunbursts: sunlight shafting into a shad- owed forest. You’ve seen starbursts: shots of light soaring through…
Jesus Heals
Jesus Heals a Leprous Man Matthew 8:2–4; Mark 1:40–45; Luke 5:12–16 LK — And it happened when He was in a certain city, that behold, a man who was full of leprosy saw Jesus; and he fell on his face Luke’s emphasis suggests this was an extremely serious case of leprosy. Lepers were considered ceremonially unclean…