Podcasts about scripture: john 5:1-5:9

Grace Community Church at Deerfoot

Grace Community Church at Deerfoot

AM Sermon

The world has certain patterns to it that do not lead to a full life. Greed, anger, jealousy, materialism, and dishonesty are just a few of them. Paul instructs us in the book of Romans to no longer conform or blend in with the ways of the world, but instead we are to live as transformed people. Transformation doesn’t happen by accident; it is an intentional way of daily living.

Christ Heals the Impotent Man.

We live in a world where we are unwell, lonely, and struggling with church hurt. In this world, healthy people, healthy leaders, and healthy churches stand out! Our awareness of this reality and our passion to offer hope to a world with church hurt is the why we have a value called "Pursuing Health Together." This values represents our commitment to welcome the hurting, show the struggle, and trust in Jesus' healing power. In this message, Pastor Scott Savage unpacks our church's value known as "Pursuing Health Together."

May the God of Wonders Bless You!

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Pastor Aaron Allison preaches from John 5:1-9 on the sixth Sunday of the Easter season.

Pastor Aaron Allison preaches from John 5:1-9 on the sixth Sunday of the Easter season.

We know our words are important, that they demonstrate faith and give voice to what we believe. You may be surprised to find out there is something more powerful than our words; Something that will bring results even though our words have set a different direction. What is this, has it worked against us, and how do we get it to work in our favor? We take on the third of the three stories that I was drawn to in answering the question “How do we pray for those who cannot pray for themselves?” This miracle is missing something that the other two contained, and that is a person who is not conscious. Yet, it will show this principle in the best of ways. If we hold to the thinking that we have done everything right, said everything right, but still are stuck in the same place, don’t resist what the Word can help you change!

We know our words are important, that they demonstrate faith and give voice to what we believe. You may be surprised to find out there is something more powerful than our words; Something that will bring results even though our words have set a different direction. What is this, has it worked against us, and how do we get it to work in our favor? We take on the third of the three stories that I was drawn to in answering the question “How do we pray for those who cannot pray for themselves?” This miracle is missing something that the other two contained, and that is a person who is not conscious. Yet, it will show this principle in the best of ways. If we hold to the thinking that we have done everything right, said everything right, but still are stuck in the same place, don’t resist what the Word can help you change!

Today we cover the birth of the church

This is Back To The Old Paths, for the weekend of Sunday, November 8, 2020. We have some announcements, two choir songs, then a message preached a while back during a Nursing Home Service, from John 5:1-9.

Teachings from Lakeside Presbyterian Church EPC, Brandon, MS

Teachings from Lakeside Presbyterian Church EPC, Brandon, MS

Teachings from Lakeside Presbyterian Church EPC, Brandon, MS

Teachings from Lakeside Presbyterian Church EPC, Brandon, MS

Greater Life Church

Greater Life Church

Listen to one of the sermons from our Sunday morning services.

Everyone experiences trouble at times of their lives. Jesus encounter with the lame man at Bethesda helps illustrate some of our hangups that prevent our receiving help as well as God's heart and ability to change our situations.

What Do You Want? John 5:1-9 Rev Keith Morrison

John 5:1-9 (NRSV) 1 After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes. 3 In these lay many invalids—blind, lame, and paralysed. 5 One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, ‘Do you want to be made well?’ 7 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 making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me.’ 8 Jesus said to him, ‘Stand up, take your mat and walk.’ 9 At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk.

Welcome to The Trinity Church in Middleburg Hts., Ohio

Do You Want to be Healed?

Do You Want to be Healed?

Smyrna First United Methodist Church

Feeling stuck? What is it you really want? Linton Hall Campus Pastor Stan walks us through one of Jesus' miracles in John 5 and assesses the costs -and benefits- of living your all for Christ.

Harvest Bible Fellowship's weekly Message.

This is Back To The Old Paths, for the weekend of Sunday, May 13, 2018. Our message from John 5:1-9, was recently preached for Radio.

Bethesda. Mercy. Those that lay by the pool hung every hope they had on a moment of chance. IF the waters were troubled, IF someone could carry them, and IF they could get there first they would receive the answer to their problems. They spent all their time waiting. Then and now, it’s so easy to focus so much on searching for the answer that we don’t see it’s right in front of us.

Bethesda. Mercy. Those that lay by the pool hung every hope they had on a moment of chance. IF the waters were troubled, IF someone could carry them, and IF they could get there first they would receive the answer to their problems. They spent all their time waiting. Then and now, it’s so easy to focus so much on searching for the answer that we don’t see it’s right in front of us.

Being a disciple means acknowledging that we can't, but God can.

Do You Want to Get Well?

Do You Want to Get Well?

Blessed New Year and Happy Birthday Jess! This is Back To The Old Paths, for the weekend of Sunday, January 7, 2018. We go back to the 2005 Camp Meeting at our home church (the Pleasant View Baptist Church of McQuady, KY) for our song from The Rolen Trio, then we air a message from John 5:1-9, which was more recently preached during a Nursing Home Service.

A in-depth, verse-by-verse, expositional study examining the "backstage pass" Gospel from the perspective of the Apostle John

A in-depth, verse-by-verse, expositional study examining the "backstage pass" Gospel from the perspective of the Apostle John

Rooted and relevant messages from MRCC

Confront your circumstances and challenge your excuses and answer Jesus' question: "Do you want to get well?"

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CHBC

Are you feeling "stuck"? What questions are you asking yourself to get un-stuck? Stan Rodda joins us this week with a message of hope and encouragement.

Are you feeling "stuck"? What questions are you asking yourself to get un-stuck? Church planter Chris Barras joins us this week with a message of hope and encouragement.

Are you feeling "stuck"? What questions are you asking yourself to get un-stuck? Church planter Chris Barras joins us this week with a message of hope and encouragement.

Weekly messages shared during our Sunday Worship Experiences.

Weekly messages shared during our Sunday Worship Experiences.

Brad Sullivan St. Mark’s, Bay City May 1, 2016 6 Easter, Year C Acts 16:9-15 John 5:1-9 Alms for An Ex-Leper? In the movie, The Life of Brian, Monty Python showed a rather silly example of this idea that being healed can actually be rather difficult. The movie was a comedy, which took place in Israel during the lifetime of Jesus. Brian, a historically insignificant and unknown Jew, found himself caught up in a series of crazy situations, his life often mirroring the life of Jesus. In the scene showing the difficulty of being healed, Brian is walking through town when a man comes prancing up to him asking, “Alms for an ex-leper?” Brian is not initially interested, and there is some haggling going on as the Ex-Leper continues to reduce the amount he is asking for when he finally comes to his rock bottom offer: Ex-Leper: Okay, sir, my final offer: half a shekel for an old ex-leper? Brian: Did you say "ex-leper"? Ex-Leper: That's right, sir, 16 years behind a veil and proud of it, sir. Brian: Well, what happened? Ex-Leper: Oh, cured, sir. Brian: Cured? Ex-Leper: Yes sir, bloody miracle, sir. Bless you! Brian: Who cured you? Ex-Leper: Jesus did, sir. I was hopping along, minding my own business, all of a sudden, up he comes, cures me! One minute I'm a leper with a trade, next minute my livelihood's gone. Not so much as a by-your-leave! "You're cured, mate." Bloody do-gooder. Brian: Alright, well, here you go. Ex-Leper: Half a denarii for my bloody life story. Brian: There’s just no pleasing some people. Ex-Leper: That’s just what Jesus said sir. The ex-leper did admit that leprosy was awful and that he would have preferred Jesus to have come back and given him some less-bothersome, yet alms-worthy malady, so that he could have continued to ply his trade of begging alms. Sometimes, the hardest thing in the world is to be healed. Without healing, life may be kind of crummy, but we adjust and adapt and become so accustomed to how things are, that we’d prefer not to be healed over risking changing how things are. “Do you want to be made well?” Jesus asked the man who had been ill for 38 years. I heard the suggestion recently that Jesus’ questions was not rhetorical, but an honest question. “Do you want to be made well?” Jesus had a gift to offer this man, but he would not force it on him. Imagine the change that would come upon this man when suddenly he was made well, when suddenly he wasn’t lying by this pool anymore waiting to come into the waters. When he didn’t’ have people pitying him anymore, he whole world was going to change. Responsibilities would be now upon him. While welcome, that was probably going to be a daunting transformation of his life. If we look at this story of physical healing and apply it to our spiritual healing, we see Jesus asking us that same question, “Do you want to be healed?”, and we find that our answers are not always “Yes.” For the healing that comes through accepting Jesus’ grace and love, through trusting in him and following in his ways, sometimes our answer to “Do you want to be healed?”, is “Yes, but not yet.” That was St. Augustine of Hippo’s famous prayer, “Lord, please make me a Christian, just not yet.” He believed that if he were to become a Christian, he would have to change his life; he’d have to give up a rather carefree, womanizing life, and actually be dedicated to Jesus’ teachings. He believed that following in Jesus’ way would be a better life for him. He believed that it would be more fulfilling, that it would bring about more good, that he would actually enjoy life more, but he just wasn’t ready to bite the bullet and stop his carousing, carefree, party-boy life. So, his response to Jesus’ question, “Do you want to be made well?”, was “Yes Lord, just not yet.” Sometimes the hardest thing in the world is to be healed. The healing that Jesus offers means transformation, and transformation is a daunting prospect. I may know that things aren’t good the way they are, but I can’t imagine life any other way. We may hold onto our past hurts, cling to our pain, because it feels like a shield against future pain. The man Jesus healed had been ill for 38 years. The story doesn’t say what his malady was, just that he was ill. He said he had no one to put him into the pool when the water was stirred up (when the healing powers of the water were present), and so someone else would always beat him to the water. I’ve always imagined the man as a cripple who was crawling to the water with lifeless legs dragging behind him, and perhaps that is the case, but perhaps not. Perhaps the man could walk, he just walked slowly, fearful of what would happen if he was healed, or maybe fearful that he would enter the water and not be healed. Perhaps he was afraid that he would enter the water and not be worthy of being healed. Remember that sickness was often seen as an affliction given by God as punishment for sin. If the man entered the water and was not healed, then he was not forgiven. Perhaps that fear of being unforgiven, that fear of being unlovable was too great, and the man remained as he was. Ultimately, that was the healing Jesus gave to the man. He cured the man’s illness, whatever it was, and in doing so, he declared the man forgiven of his sins and beloved of God. Be not afraid, be not ashamed, for you are God’s beloved, and God’s grace is more than sufficient for your sins. Lutheran Pastor, Nadia Bolz-Weber, wrote of God’s grace being enough for her sins. She had at one point been a bit of a jerk to a parishioner, totally unknown to the parishioner, but it was weighing on her, and she needed absolution; she needed to say out loud to another human being the crappy thing she had done, and she then needed to hear the words of God’s forgiveness spoken over her. So, she called her friend, Caitlin, who was also her confessor. Of Caitlin, she wrote: [Caitlin] knows me. Really well. And she is unimpressed with my sin. I’ve told her things about myself that I’ve not told anyone else and she still wants to be my friend. Not because she is magnanimous but because she believes in the power of forgiveness and the grace of God. Caitlin was unimpressed with Nadia’s sins. That’s how God is with us, unimpressed with our sins. Our sins are a big deal to us, and in one sense our sins are a big deal to God. Our sins are a big deal and they matter to God because our sins are the ways we hurt ourselves and each other. Our sins are a big deal to God because we are a big deal to God. Through our sins, we end up separating ourselves from each other and from God, and God wants to be united to us and for us to be united to each other. So our sins are a big deal to God, a big enough deal that God became human in the person of Jesus and let us kill him on the cross so that he could receive all of our sins, receive all of our sins in that macabre embrace, and having taken all of our sins upon himself, could say, “Father, forgive them.” Such is the grace of Jesus, that having taken all of our sins upon himself and having been killed by us, he has forgiven us. So, while our sins matter to God, God is also totally unimpressed by our sins, because his grace, forgiveness, and love are so much greater. The sins of the entirety of all human kind throughout all time are very great indeed: pettiness, insults, jealousy, abuse, rape, murder, genocide, holocausts. The sins of humanity are vast as the ocean, limitless as the sky, beyond our reckoning, and the sins of humanity are totally unimpressive when met with God’s grace, forgiveness, and love. That is what Jesus offers us when he says, “Do you want to be healed?” Imagine a life not held captive by guilt or shame from past sins. Imagine a life not constantly scrambling to be good enough to be worthy of God’s love. Imagine a life not held captive by the past hurts that others have given because you have been forgiven yourself by God and therefore able to forgive others. Imagine a life transformed, sometimes a daunting prospect, and so Jesus asks, “Do you want to be healed.” Do you want to be transformed by God’s grace? Do you want to be transformed by God’s forgiveness? Do you want to be transformed by God’s love? Do you want to let go the sins and the hurts of the past as God has let them go for you? Do you want to accept that there will be more sins and hurts in the future and let go of those as well? No longer clinging to our sins and our hurts, no longer clinging to our feelings of needing to be good enough to be worthy of God’s love, not longer clinging to all of the past and future mess, “Do you want,” Jesus asks, “to fall into God’s grace and accept that you are forgiven and beloved?” Amen.

Brad Sullivan St. Mark’s, Bay City May 1, 2016 6 Easter, Year C Acts 16:9-15 John 5:1-9 Alms for An Ex-Leper? In the movie, The Life of Brian, Monty Python showed a rather silly example of this idea that being healed can actually be rather difficult. The movie was a comedy, which took place in Israel during the lifetime of Jesus. Brian, a historically insignificant and unknown Jew, found himself caught up in a series of crazy situations, his life often mirroring the life of Jesus. In the scene showing the difficulty of being healed, Brian is walking through town when a man comes prancing up to him asking, “Alms for an ex-leper?” Brian is not initially interested, and there is some haggling going on as the Ex-Leper continues to reduce the amount he is asking for when he finally comes to his rock bottom offer: Ex-Leper: Okay, sir, my final offer: half a shekel for an old ex-leper? Brian: Did you say "ex-leper"? Ex-Leper: That's right, sir, 16 years behind a veil and proud of it, sir. Brian: Well, what happened? Ex-Leper: Oh, cured, sir. Brian: Cured? Ex-Leper: Yes sir, bloody miracle, sir. Bless you! Brian: Who cured you? Ex-Leper: Jesus did, sir. I was hopping along, minding my own business, all of a sudden, up he comes, cures me! One minute I'm a leper with a trade, next minute my livelihood's gone. Not so much as a by-your-leave! "You're cured, mate." Bloody do-gooder. Brian: Alright, well, here you go. Ex-Leper: Half a denarii for my bloody life story. Brian: There’s just no pleasing some people. Ex-Leper: That’s just what Jesus said sir. The ex-leper did admit that leprosy was awful and that he would have preferred Jesus to have come back and given him some less-bothersome, yet alms-worthy malady, so that he could have continued to ply his trade of begging alms. Sometimes, the hardest thing in the world is to be healed. Without healing, life may be kind of crummy, but we adjust and adapt and become so accustomed to how things are, that we’d prefer not to be healed over risking changing how things are. “Do you want to be made well?” Jesus asked the man who had been ill for 38 years. I heard the suggestion recently that Jesus’ questions was not rhetorical, but an honest question. “Do you want to be made well?” Jesus had a gift to offer this man, but he would not force it on him. Imagine the change that would come upon this man when suddenly he was made well, when suddenly he wasn’t lying by this pool anymore waiting to come into the waters. When he didn’t’ have people pitying him anymore, he whole world was going to change. Responsibilities would be now upon him. While welcome, that was probably going to be a daunting transformation of his life. If we look at this story of physical healing and apply it to our spiritual healing, we see Jesus asking us that same question, “Do you want to be healed?”, and we find that our answers are not always “Yes.” For the healing that comes through accepting Jesus’ grace and love, through trusting in him and following in his ways, sometimes our answer to “Do you want to be healed?”, is “Yes, but not yet.” That was St. Augustine of Hippo’s famous prayer, “Lord, please make me a Christian, just not yet.” He believed that if he were to become a Christian, he would have to change his life; he’d have to give up a rather carefree, womanizing life, and actually be dedicated to Jesus’ teachings. He believed that following in Jesus’ way would be a better life for him. He believed that it would be more fulfilling, that it would bring about more good, that he would actually enjoy life more, but he just wasn’t ready to bite the bullet and stop his carousing, carefree, party-boy life. So, his response to Jesus’ question, “Do you want to be made well?”, was “Yes Lord, just not yet.” Sometimes the hardest thing in the world is to be healed. The healing that Jesus offers means transformation, and transformation is a daunting prospect. I may know that things aren’t good the way they are, but I can’t imagine life any other way. We may hold onto our past hurts, cling to our pain, because it feels like a shield against future pain. The man Jesus healed had been ill for 38 years. The story doesn’t say what his malady was, just that he was ill. He said he had no one to put him into the pool when the water was stirred up (when the healing powers of the water were present), and so someone else would always beat him to the water. I’ve always imagined the man as a cripple who was crawling to the water with lifeless legs dragging behind him, and perhaps that is the case, but perhaps not. Perhaps the man could walk, he just walked slowly, fearful of what would happen if he was healed, or maybe fearful that he would enter the water and not be healed. Perhaps he was afraid that he would enter the water and not be worthy of being healed. Remember that sickness was often seen as an affliction given by God as punishment for sin. If the man entered the water and was not healed, then he was not forgiven. Perhaps that fear of being unforgiven, that fear of being unlovable was too great, and the man remained as he was. Ultimately, that was the healing Jesus gave to the man. He cured the man’s illness, whatever it was, and in doing so, he declared the man forgiven of his sins and beloved of God. Be not afraid, be not ashamed, for you are God’s beloved, and God’s grace is more than sufficient for your sins. Lutheran Pastor, Nadia Bolz-Weber, wrote of God’s grace being enough for her sins. She had at one point been a bit of a jerk to a parishioner, totally unknown to the parishioner, but it was weighing on her, and she needed absolution; she needed to say out loud to another human being the crappy thing she had done, and she then needed to hear the words of God’s forgiveness spoken over her. So, she called her friend, Caitlin, who was also her confessor. Of Caitlin, she wrote: [Caitlin] knows me. Really well. And she is unimpressed with my sin. I’ve told her things about myself that I’ve not told anyone else and she still wants to be my friend. Not because she is magnanimous but because she believes in the power of forgiveness and the grace of God. Caitlin was unimpressed with Nadia’s sins. That’s how God is with us, unimpressed with our sins. Our sins are a big deal to us, and in one sense our sins are a big deal to God. Our sins are a big deal and they matter to God because our sins are the ways we hurt ourselves and each other. Our sins are a big deal to God because we are a big deal to God. Through our sins, we end up separating ourselves from each other and from God, and God wants to be united to us and for us to be united to each other. So our sins are a big deal to God, a big enough deal that God became human in the person of Jesus and let us kill him on the cross so that he could receive all of our sins, receive all of our sins in that macabre embrace, and having taken all of our sins upon himself, could say, “Father, forgive them.” Such is the grace of Jesus, that having taken all of our sins upon himself and having been killed by us, he has forgiven us. So, while our sins matter to God, God is also totally unimpressed by our sins, because his grace, forgiveness, and love are so much greater. The sins of the entirety of all human kind throughout all time are very great indeed: pettiness, insults, jealousy, abuse, rape, murder, genocide, holocausts. The sins of humanity are vast as the ocean, limitless as the sky, beyond our reckoning, and the sins of humanity are totally unimpressive when met with God’s grace, forgiveness, and love. That is what Jesus offers us when he says, “Do you want to be healed?” Imagine a life not held captive by guilt or shame from past sins. Imagine a life not constantly scrambling to be good enough to be worthy of God’s love. Imagine a life not held captive by the past hurts that others have given because you have been forgiven yourself by God and therefore able to forgive others. Imagine a life transformed, sometimes a daunting prospect, and so Jesus asks, “Do you want to be healed.” Do you want to be transformed by God’s grace? Do you want to be transformed by God’s forgiveness? Do you want to be transformed by God’s love? Do you want to let go the sins and the hurts of the past as God has let them go for you? Do you want to accept that there will be more sins and hurts in the future and let go of those as well? No longer clinging to our sins and our hurts, no longer clinging to our feelings of needing to be good enough to be worthy of God’s love, not longer clinging to all of the past and future mess, “Do you want,” Jesus asks, “to fall into God’s grace and accept that you are forgiven and beloved?” Amen.

Welcome to Christ Community Church of Wilmington NC. We are committed to teaching the Bible, transforming lives, and touching our world.

Welcome to Christ Community Church of Wilmington NC. We are committed to teaching the Bible, transforming lives, and touching our world.

Our text takes us to a place in Jerusalem that was known throughout the land. People came and congregated at this pool because of what they could find there. No one knows why the waters would become troubled, but there was a belief that healing was available when this happened. Some historians challenge the authenticity of that, but if that is the case, why were so many people waiting? Something miraculous took place at that pool. The bible tells us that there was a multitude of people. They were there because there was hope for a chance of healing. It was a chance, but a chance was better than nothing. A chance is all they were looking for. That desire of a chance has not changed form then to now. People are simply looking for a chance. People will wait on many things in life for simply a chance. When Jesus came to the pool that day, chance went out the window, and it became an opportunity. When Jesus is involved, it is not a matter of chance, but a matter of time. For 38 long years, nothing had changed for this man. For 38 years, this man held onto hope. For all those 38 years, chance had not been kind to him. Jesus asks this man a strange question: Do you want to be made whole? His answer reveals why he had been waiting so long. Is answer was not YES. The answer was I can't. His answer is an excuse or a complaint. Before we judge this man too harshly, we need to look at our own live to make sure we are not guilty of the same attitude. Jesus did not ask him if he wanted to be healed. Jesus ask if he wanted to me made whole. There is a difference. People can be physically well, but still troubled in their mind. The infirm man had endured 38 years and something kept him at the pool hoping for his time. This man did not even know who healed him. Later when ask about who had healed him, he could not say. Bro. Hughes notes several things about this encounter and the answer that reveal much. This man struggled with seeing only his problem, not his opportunities. He referenced the obstacles in his way. All he could see were his problems. In that state, he could not let God bless him. There is always something in the way. Jesus did not ask him what his problem was. He already knew that, Jesus ask what was his desire. When we focus on our problems, we place constraints on what God can do in our life. What is it on the inside that limits us? If God cannot get on the inside, it will not matter what we do on the outside. Our infirm man could only see what he did not have. He said "I have no man" What are we saying that we do not have? I have no help. I have no encouragement. I have no leadership. What are we missing because we are focused on what we do not have? He was so focused on what was against him, that he did not even realize that the one that could solve all his problems was right in front of him. Finally, this man judged the present by the past. He told Jesus about all his past failures. His life was limited, even in the presence of Jesus, by being stuck on all the failures of the past. It is easy to understand how this man could have this attitude. He had been there a long time. Here he was talking to someone he didn't even know if he would like to be healed. Something kept this man coming back for all those years. What was different on that day was that he was in the presence of God. Some people have this same attitude today. Things have been bad for so long. We see others go to the alter and get blessing, but feel that we cannot access that too. Nothing can so parallelize a man's life than the notion that things will never change. To judge the presence by the past is to handcuff God and keep him from doing what He wants to do in our life. God is not limited by our past. Nothing is impossible with God. Jesus said Get UP. It was a command. When that man acted on the authoritative word of God, his life was transformed immediately. Jesus tells us the same thing today: Get up!

We need an Awakening AND Revival in the USA. What are some of the obstacles? This Bible messages offers a few truths which we need to know and overcome.

Sometimes we place limitations on our own lives because of false assumptions or a bad set of beliefs. Sometimes to see the miraculous you must think and believe the box of preconceived or false assumptions.

This is the Sunday Worship Experience from LifeQuest Community Church in Hilton, NY on March 1st 2015. The message is by Pastor Rob Dickerson. Feel free to check us out online at www.lifequest.cc and on Facebook. The Grave Robber series “reveals the incredible power of the seven miraculous signs of Jesus found in the Gospel of John, showing how they are not simply something Jesus did in the past but also something He wants to do in the now, in the present.” Missing the miraculous in Jesus’ life will cause us to miss the miracles God wants to perform in ours.

In order for us to truly receive healing, we must be willing to be healed. You can believe and not get healed. The man at the pool of Bethesda heard the word from Jesus to get up but he still had to get up from where he was and walk. Will you be made whole?

You may know the story of the sick man at the pool of Bethesda. But did you know that his condition, concerns and convictions are exactly the same ones that we can have as Christians today?

You may know the story of the sick man at the pool of Bethesda. But did you know that his condition, concerns and convictions are exactly the same ones that we can have as Christians today?

Greencastle Church of God

Pastor Kouami Medekor is an IGM Missionary from the West African country of Togo. He is visiting the United States to visit and thank Church's who have supported his ministry, and give us updates on how everything is going and where help is still needed. Pastor Medekor shares a story from Jesus' ministry from the gospel of John.

Disciples of Jesus follow the example of Jesus

Disciples of Jesus follow the example of Jesus

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