Faith, Fiction, Friends

After John 9   He said it plainly; he  explained it, succinctly.  The reason he came was  judgment, that  those who are  blind can see,  and...

After John 9   Disbelieving that a man born blind could now see (healed on the Sabbath,  no less), they return to their original questions: ...

After John 9   Dirt and spit are not the usual medical treatment for blindness,  mixed together to make mud. Directions for use: anoint the ...

After John 9 A choice of answers is offered as questions to explain why a man was born blind – did he sin or did his parents? He rejects bot...

After John 5:1-17 What am I doing here, this pool and its colonnades, with all its filth, it smells, its piles of human waste and wasted hum...

After John 5: 1-17   Inside the walls, inside the gate that Nehemiah built, the lame, the sick, the injured gather, waiting among the colonn...

After Luke 14:1-6   Does it matter, this art of healing, on what day it happens? It seems a quaint  concern, to be worried whether someone h...

After Mark 2:1-12   On my bedding they lower me into the room of noise and smoke and the small of bodies densely packed together. Too many p...

After Mark 2:1-12 Through the roof he comes on ropes, almost a theatrical scene; that’s bad enough (no sense of decorum In honor of those pr...

After Mark 2:1-12   Confronted by the faith of the men helping a friend, men so determined they punch a hole in the roof, what does the heal...

After Mark 2:1-12   The word is out: the man can heal, a touch, a look, a word can dispel a demon, a disease, even the most feared of all, a...

After John 5:1-17   A man lame and paralyzed 38 years is healed by the stirring of the waters of the word, and the result is wonder, amazeme...

After John 5:1-17   He sees the multitudes edging the pool  in their distress and their hope, and he asks one, one chosen from among them, i...

After John 5:1-17   They wait in their dozens and scores, clustered among the colonnades, blind, lame, paralyzed, invalids for whom life is ...

After Luke 14:1-11 He is the point, or the example: the man with dropsy, standing there as they sit for a meal, a man proven ...

We were attending a large church, large enough for two services in a big auditorium but still small enough to know people. We had been ...