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The blindness of Bartimaeus READ Mark 10:46-52 . total blindness life-long? defines him as a beggar Alcoholic/Druggie “Bar Crowd” Suicide Survivor Abused/Abuser Eating Disorder Mentally/Emotionally Unhealthy Divorced Prodigal child Bartimaeus “Sees” Bartimaeus CRIES OUT! The people rebuke CRAB BUCKET-…

Hosanna! Save us! We just read from Mark 11:1-11 - Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem. My favourite part of it is Mark 11:11 11 Then he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple; and when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve. Such a great…

Kia manakohia ngā kupu a tōku māngai; me ngā whakaaro o tōku ngākau i tōu aroaro, e Ihowā, e tōku kāmaka, e tōku kaihoko. Amine. Months ago, when we were first planning this service, I looked at the lectionary readings and thought “wow, what a gift!” - particularly the Jeremiah reading that speaks so…

The Purpose Fascination - Discovery - Identity - Authenticity One day, Napoleon was speaking of the Divinity of Christ; when General Bertrand said:— “I can not conceive, sire, how a great man like you can believe that the Supreme Being ever exhibited himself to men under a human form, with a body, a…

Resurrection Victories: Healing

There is none so blind as he who will not see, none so deaf as those who will not hear. This saying seems to go back to the 1500s to English author John Heywood, a man famous for his poems and collections of proverbs. The proverb appears to be adapted from biblical texts Jeremiah 5:21 ““Hear this, O…

Introduction Being dad to Luisa, Holly, and our newest addition (Javier) has taught me much about myself and much about my Heavenly Father. For instance, in discipling my children, I’ve realize that it requires repetition, patience, and the idea of an ongoing conversation about how we should be that…

Introduction Today we’re going to look at this story about a man called Bartimaeus. The message is is about a Great Intervention - what we’re reading tonight is about a time in a man’s life where Jesus changed things! Now at this point in time, Jesus had ministered for about 3 1/2 years, His ministry…

Requests For Position 35 And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came up to him and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.” 36 And he said to them, “What do you want me to do for you?” 37 And they said to him, “Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your…

Then they came to Jericho. And as He was leaving Jericho with His disciples and a large crowd, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the road. And when he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” And many…

RESET: PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER We need regular resets because we just tend to drift off course. So from time to time, even daily, certainly weekly and monthly, we need to reset, get back on course, get back to what's most important in our lives. Because we tend to drift as human beings, but then…

We are continuing our series this morning Summer Stories. This four-week series will explores the lives of four people who had profound, life-changing encounters with Jesus. We will connect their stories to other modern-day individuals who have had similar experiences. We can all have life changing event…

Introduction We all know of people, we may be the person, who ask for things that seem ridiculous. This is fine, except when the people expect to receive whatever it is they ask for. They have an entitlement mentality that drives them and expect exactly what they ask for regardless what it is. Stories…

Review: :1-12 - God’s Plan for Marriage :13-16 - Receive the Kingdom :17-31 - Answering the Rich Young Ruler :32-34 32 And they were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them. And they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid. And taking the twelve again, he began…

And they came to Jericho. And as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the roadside. And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” And many rebuked…

Before the invention of the microscope in the 1590’s, there was a ton of uncertainty about the human body. Without the microscope, it is impossible for us to see the human body on a cellular level. However, just because we are unable to see the cells that make up our body, doesn’t mean that cells do…

Mercy MERCY is defined as compassion or forgiveness shown toward someone whom it is within one's power to punish or harm. Who is it in your life, and in my life that has that kind of power? The Most power to punish or forgive? The Government has some to punish or forgive, And is much more prone to punish…

It has been said that when a person loses one of their senses, the other senses adapt to that loss and are strengthened. The brain actually adapts to the loss by giving itself a makeover. If one sense is lost, the areas of the brain normally devoted to handling that sensory information do not go unused…

The Jericho of the Old Testament was destroyed by Joshua. But a new city called Jericho had been erected nearby, one of the winter residences of King Herod. In this tropical paradise the tax-collector Zacchaeus lived. Jesus and his disciples spent some time at his house. The occasion of today’s Gospel…

Last week during the children’s sermon, Lance shared a passage that directly precedes the text I’m going to preach from today. To refresh your memory, he shared from Mark 10:35 and following, where James and John come and ask Jesus, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.” Does that…

Intro: Jesus said to tell you He’s coming. I first understood Him to mean His parousia, but that is not what He meant. As believers, the second coming of Christ is the bedrock of our hope and expectation. Jesus has not abandoned us to the event of His coming; He wants to come now and empower us by His…

His mercy is for you! His mercy endures forever! If you will respond to His call, He will heal you.

Jesus Shows Love to the Hurting Mark 10:46-52 Tunnel Vision Open your bibles to Mark 10:46-52 as we get a glimpse of Jesus from this gospel. We are moving our way through the book leading up to the resurrection on Easter morning. As we do, we are discovering that Mark pictures Jesus as the Messiah, but…

Let us pray…Gracious and Loving God, as we come before you this day, our hearts are full of love for you and the life of your Son, our minds are full of the things that we need to do yet today and in this coming week, and our eyes cannot escape all that flashes before them as we scan the TV, computer,…

Let us pray…Gracious and loving God, as we come before you today, we pray for hearts focused on you, for ears trained to your still speaking voice, and eyes to see clearly the path you have laid before us, Amen. The Invitation I know in the last year this does not or has not happened much but think back…