Jesus said, “Do you want to be made well?” Of course he did after being by the pool for 38 years!
When the time came he simply did as Jesus asked him … and was made well and was so happy.
The trouble was – it was healing on the Sabbath! The Jewish leaders were not happy!
Do we, in a moment of another’s moment of grace and joy, sometimes react negatively, like those leaders?
The Pakistani lady, Jamila, talked of in this message, did not focus on our differences.
We have a choice, to hold onto our assumptions, or to embrace new and deeper relationships.
Peter’s vision calls us to step beyond our boundaries and brace new relationships.
God’s grace has no boundaries.
Peter prays over Tabitha and she is given new life and raised up.
Resurrection is a call to rise, get up, stand up tall, and come out.
Resurrection is to be called from all that inhibits us, being raised to new heights.
Called to embrace ‘our story’, so we can be raised to a greater and more profound reality.
Following the resurrection the disciples were ‘shell-shocked’ and wondered what they might now do with their lives.
Fishing was something they knew. Jesus re-met them there and asked if they loved Him more than life as fisherman?
Jesus gave Peter a mission. Jesus keeps coming back to us and asks us to prove our love by serving Him.
William Carey, the first English missionary in India, had a terrible experience.
He lost all the translation work he had done over 20 years in a fire. He found that following God can be costly, but the flame of the Holy Spirit was lit in many peoples lives – grace abounded.
He, like the disciples, discovered no situation can hinder the spread of the gospel.
Many voices can be heard in our world – What is true? What is false? What do we disregard?
Is it reasonable to believe something we did not get to experience?
The 2 people traveling to Emmaus may have the answer… on that road, the stranger with them, shared the scriptures which were enough to believe that what they had heard was true – Jesus
died and rose again – their hearts were set on fire!
Easter breaks down racial and cultural barriers and all are included in ‘The Lord has Risen’. In Matthew’s gospel the women become the ‘apostles’ to the Apostle , Women are included in the ‘all people’ to go and tell of the coming of this new event that is now happening.
The orders of ‘hierarchy’ are all about up and down. We lap it up, but it is neither the perspective nor the way of Jesus! ALL AGE MESSAGE God’s spirit works in our life like seeds, planting thoughts and aspirations and drawing from us the desire to be a part of God’s kingdom. INFORMATION…
Herbert Spencer supported the idea of the survival of the fittest. How does this conflict with the teachings of Jesus helping the man by the Bethesda Pool? ALL AGE MESSAGE God’s spirit works in our life like seeds, planting thoughts and aspirations and drawing from us the desire to be a part of God’s…
God’s purpose is to be glorified as His people reach out to those from every group with the good news of his saving grace. If your thinking is not in line with God’s purpose, then be prepared to change. ALL AGE MESSAGE Loving one another was even a difficult area for Jesus, as friends…
