Psalm: 37 Meditation Matthew: Jesus was around the Sea of Galilee healing people and casting out demons. He discouraged people from spreading about the news of the healings. The good news of God’s forgiveness was a far timelier tiding to spread abroad. That is how Matthew saw it in quoting from Isaiah 42. Healings tend …
Tag: Healing
Thursday, October 8
Psalm: 134, 135 Meditation Matthew: What could be worse for a parent than the death of his child? Notice that this ruler knelt at Jesus’ feet. His daughter was not ill, she was dead and now the synagogue ruler is here seeking help. He could not have been a Sadducee because death would be the …
Monday, October 5
Psalm: 106 Meditation Matthew: In this passage Jesus says but one word “Go!” – a command to and permission for the demons to come out of the two men and to go into the herd of swine. This area is known to have been a Gentile region of the east side of the Sea of …
Bartemaeus – The One Who Sees
Listen. If you missed the Children’s Message on Sunday, you can watch to a recording of it here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcz7MtZT2yk Read: Mark 10:46-52 together as a family. Review: Have you ever cried for something over and over? How about asked again and again for the same thing? What was it? Have you ever seen / met …
Friday, August 14
Psalms: 22 Meditation Mark: Mark’s gospel is the shortest and perhaps lighter on details. This is a “no frills” report on the healing of a blind man, Bartimaeus, by name. Here, Jesus simply says “Go, your faith has healed you.” Immediately… In another gospel an unnamed blind man had to wash out the mud made …
Friday, July 24
Psalms: 40 Meditation Mark: The obvious good things in this scripture are the healing of the woman with the bleeding issue and Jairus’ daughter being raised from the dead. What may get lost are a few details. The woman with the bleeding was considered “unclean” all the time of her affliction (12 years) It is …
Fourth Sunday in Lent
Listen. Listen to the pre-recorded Children’s Message together. https://youtu.be/PG8cyoWOMRc What are the kinds of blindness that Pastor Nate talked about? We are going to read the first part of the story. Look for the man who has the first kind of blindness (he can’t see anything.) Read John 9:1-7 together. What happens to the blind man …
