Tag: miracle
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The Lame Walk a Sign from God
A Sign of Faith in Capernaum ~A.D. 27 – Jesus in Galilee “Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins have been forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? Gospel of Luke 5:43 LSB “But, so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,”—He said to…
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Philip: Preaching to Good and Bad Samaritans
ACTS of Philip the Evangelist Φίλιππος Philip who? Jesus chose Twelve Apostles at the beginning His ministry in Galilee. The Apostle Philip was one of the Twelve. Philip has been an Apostle for about five years now. The year c. A.D. 32 or 33. When Simon Peter healed a lame man and spoke at Solomon’s…
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We are Beggars in the House of God
Begging for Blessing You may have had a beggar at your door recently. My new neighbor asked me if he should expect any ‘trick or treaters’ invading our neighborhood. Probably not, I responded. We generally have sweets here for ourselves that I could give away to a beggar, I assured. But he thought it might…
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Unless the Father draws you – Bread from Heaven
Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life… John 6:35a A group of hopeful Jews has begun following this Son of Man from place to place looking for signs that He IS the Messiah of the One God. Now we turn to a sign Jesus shows to five thousand followers in a remote…
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Unless the Father draws you – Signs
Signs from God the Father Perhaps as one of the multitude hearing the preaching of Jesus you may have missed His relational claim to God as His Father. Even now as one seeing signs on a mountainside and your amazement by the Lord’s miracles, your ears failed to hear His mention of the Father. And…
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Ordinary Men – 1
… he was healed by the powerful name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, the man you crucified but whom God raised from the dead. – Acts 4:10b Suppose you were arrested and brought before a court of leaders asking how you had healed a lame man. Would you witness Christ? The Apostle Peter in effect told the very…
