Title: Our Greatest Need
Series: The Gospel of Mark: A Journey With Jesus
Author: Jim Perdue
Text: Mark 2:1-12
-*Many of you may know the story of a lady named Joni Eareckson Tada. She was a healthy, athletic teenager. She had just graduated from high school, where she was voted "Best Athlete" of her class. She was an award-winning swimmer and skilled tennis player, planning on pursuing a future career in athletics. A month after graduation, however, while swimming in the Chesapeake Bay, Joni dove into some shallow water and cracked her head on the rocky floor.
Her arms and legs immediately went limp and she had to be rescued from the shallow pool of water she laid in. Joni damaged her spine and permanently lost the ability to use her arms and legs, becoming a quadriplegic. Joni was a Christian, but how did her faith affect how she processed this life altering accident? As Joni studied the Bible, she came across the story of Jesus healing a paralytic in Luke 5 and Mark 2. Filled with a desperate hope, Joni came to believe that Jesus could heal her of her paralysis the same way He healed the paralytic in this story. So, she made the rounds to the local healing services hoping and praying to be healed. But her healing never came. Nearly 60 years after her accident, she's still in her wheelchair.
Joni's life has been one filled with intense suffering. I wonder what you think about Joni's despair. Why wouldn't God heal her like He did the paralyzed man in the Gospel of Mark? Maybe you are a skeptic here today who lost your faith because God refused to answer a prayer for yourself or someone you loved to be healed. How could a good God let something terrible like this happen? That's a serious question. Let's think about it as we turn now to our text and look at the story. My hope today is that by the end of the sermon we will know one thing: Jesus knows our greatest need and offers a deeper healing.*
-As we come to Mark 2 today, we see the healing of a ...
Series: The Gospel of Mark: A Journey With Jesus
Author: Jim Perdue
Text: Mark 2:1-12
-*Many of you may know the story of a lady named Joni Eareckson Tada. She was a healthy, athletic teenager. She had just graduated from high school, where she was voted "Best Athlete" of her class. She was an award-winning swimmer and skilled tennis player, planning on pursuing a future career in athletics. A month after graduation, however, while swimming in the Chesapeake Bay, Joni dove into some shallow water and cracked her head on the rocky floor.
Her arms and legs immediately went limp and she had to be rescued from the shallow pool of water she laid in. Joni damaged her spine and permanently lost the ability to use her arms and legs, becoming a quadriplegic. Joni was a Christian, but how did her faith affect how she processed this life altering accident? As Joni studied the Bible, she came across the story of Jesus healing a paralytic in Luke 5 and Mark 2. Filled with a desperate hope, Joni came to believe that Jesus could heal her of her paralysis the same way He healed the paralytic in this story. So, she made the rounds to the local healing services hoping and praying to be healed. But her healing never came. Nearly 60 years after her accident, she's still in her wheelchair.
Joni's life has been one filled with intense suffering. I wonder what you think about Joni's despair. Why wouldn't God heal her like He did the paralyzed man in the Gospel of Mark? Maybe you are a skeptic here today who lost your faith because God refused to answer a prayer for yourself or someone you loved to be healed. How could a good God let something terrible like this happen? That's a serious question. Let's think about it as we turn now to our text and look at the story. My hope today is that by the end of the sermon we will know one thing: Jesus knows our greatest need and offers a deeper healing.*
-As we come to Mark 2 today, we see the healing of a ...
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