Healing is Never the Finish Line

In the weeks following my personal emotional healing experience, I realized something unexpected. The healing itself wasn’t the greatest gift. It was how the experience had stripped away my self-sufficiency and opened me to a deeper dependence on God—one I had never...

More Than Just Getting Up

Scripture: John 5:8-9 “Jesus said to him, ‘Get up, take up your bed, and walk.’ And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.” I was sitting in my car last Tuesday, engine idling, staring blankly at the dashboard. My...

Waiting by the Wrong Pool

Scripture: John 5:7-9 “The sick man answered him, ‘Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Get up, take up your bed, and walk.’ And...

Healing Can Suck

Scripture: John 5:6 “When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, ‘Do you want to be healed?'” I still remember the day my therapist leaned forward in his chair and asked me a question that...

Waiting for Eruption

“Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.” When Tom...