Do You Want to Be Healed?

Do You Want to Be Healed?

Reflect Jesus asked a man with paralysis, “Do you want to be healed?” (Jn 5:1–8) Jesus asks the same question of us in our personal and public lives. Do you want to be happy? Do you want to fulfill your dreams? Do you want to make a difference for the good in our troubled times? What will our answer be? Jesus is here to take our hand and walk with us to a future with hope, love, and healing. Pray Healer of our every wound,You come to us offering…

Compassion and The Christ

There is a word in Matthew 9:36 and that word is “compassion.” The Greek word that is used here for compassion is transliterated as “Splagchnizomai,” and Splagchnizomai means to be so moved by the suffering of someone that it literally causes severe pain in one’s bowels, one’s gut.  The text describes Jesus observing people who […]