Archive for October, 2008

Guest Post: The Key Question

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

by Judi
John 5:2 – 9 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight [...]

Faith and Friendship

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

Luke 5:17 – 21, 24 – 26 One day as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law, who had come from every village of Galilee and from Judea and Jerusalem, were sitting there. And the power of the Lord was present for him to heal the sick. Some men came carrying a [...]

Guest Post: Offering Jesus

Monday, October 6th, 2008

This post was written by Alyssa. I’m so excited to share her writing with you all! Thanks, Alyssa!
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Luke 5:27-29 After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.
Levi didn’t [...]

Homecoming

Monday, October 6th, 2008

Praise God, Dad is coming home today! Oh, not home, as in heaven. Nope. He won’t be going there for a long, long time. Instead, he’s coming home from the hospital!
A few highlights of his hospital stay:
Friday night, his entire family group from his church filed into his hospital room. We sang praise songs, read [...]

Update: Dad's Surgery

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

What the doctors say:
Dad’s tumor was much larger than they expected. They got all of it, and they found its source and got it, as well. But because of its location, there is a possibility it has spread. They got all they could see, but they won’t know more until the pathology report comes back.
This [...]

Guest Post: Because You Say So

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Today’s post is written by my friend, Jeanette. I know you will love her as much as I do!
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Luke 5:1-11 One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, with the people crowding around him and listening to the word of God, he saw at the water’s edge two boats left there by [...]