Contributed by Steve Kinnard on Feb 20, 2019
BLIND MAN
As I sit beside the road my nostrils are filled with the dust of countless ages past. I sit in the solitude of self-pity as I contemplate this prison.My prison is not one that locks me in but it’s one that locks me out; I don’t have bars that contain me but my dungeon is a world of
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Contributed by Perry Greene on Dec 2, 2012
Erik Weihenmeyer has led a remarkable life. He is the first blind person to reach the summit of Mt. Everest (2001). In 2008, he climbed his seventh summit highest peak on each continent). He has written books and produced a film of some of his accomplishments entitled, “Farther Than the Eye Can
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 28, 2010
THE MAN WHO CAME FOR THE BLIND
A fellow in our office told us recently of a household incident of which he had been an innocent but perplexed spectator. Our friend had called a Venetian-blind repairman to come pick up a faulty blind, and the next morning, while the family was seated at the
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Brethren
Frederick Buechner, from Wishful Thinking
The Gospels depict Jesus as having spent a surprising amount of time healing people. Although, like the author of Job before him, he specifically rejected the theory that sickness was God's way of getting even with sinners (John 9:1-3), he nonetheless
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"The man had a choice to be healed or not. There had to be a 'want to' in his will. He could have decided to stay unhealed forever, and there could have been some reasons to do so. He may have wanted to remain unhealed so he could just lie around, or he may have grown accustomed to begging and knew
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
A blind mans world is bounded by the limits of his touch; an ignorant mans world by the limits of his knowledge; a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 7, 2013
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BLIND AGAINST THE BLIND
Today we're going to examine a miracle in which Jesus gives sight to two blind men. I've known several people who are physically blind and I'm always amazed by what they can do without sight. Growing up in Alabama, one of the most celebrated sports heroes in our state was
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Contributed by Tony Abram on Dec 9, 2008
Four-year-old was telling about the Bible story she heard in her Sunday school class. It was the story of Jesus healing the blind man. When she got to the part where the Pharisees questioned the
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Feb 13, 2002
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A HEALING FOOL
The Gospels depict Jesus as having spent a surprising amount of time healing people…
It is significant also that the Greek verb "sozo" was used in Jesus’ day to mean both to save and to heal, and "soter" could signify either savior or physician.
Ever since the time of Jesus,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 3, 2002
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HE WAS HEALED
Tony Campolo tells a story about being in a church in Oregon where he was asked to pray for a man who had cancer. Campolo prayed boldly for the man’s healing.
That next week he got a telephone call from the man’s wife. She said, "You prayed for my husband. He had cancer." Campolo
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 31, 2011
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FAITH HEALING
I’ve know people who questioned God’s love for them because God didn’t heal them. I’ve known others who questioned their own faith...they felt like if they’d just had more faith God would have healed them. In fact, I’ve known people who were TOLD by a faith-healer that the reason
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Jesus met the man in the tombs, healed him, cast the demons out. Now he is a sane man. Now he can take his place in society. I can imagine him coming home that evening after he met Jesus. His children look out the window and the cry out, "Mother, father is coming." She runs and locks the door. She
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 19, 2002
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God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
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Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Feb 28, 2011
THE HEALING RAINBOW
Years ago one of our sons – age 10-12 – spoke some remarkable words. I had been ill. He was outside and saw a rainbow which he perceived as being over our house. He came inside and said, "Are you better yet? I thought maybe you were being healed."
At that young age he had
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GOD’S HEALING POWER HEALS TWO YOUNG WOMEN WITH CHRONIC INJURIES
Four of our interns went into a clothing store and began ministering and encouraging one of the clerks. She began to open up, telling them that she used to be in the circus and ripped her tendons in both wrists by doing four back
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Charismatic