Would you baptize someone on Halloween? One preacher refused to do that because he saw Halloween as a focus on death… and he didn’t want the young girl he was baptizing to become confused by the aura of death in the season, and having that connection ruin her walk with Christ.
There are people in this world that hate God. And they don’t believe that God is good – they believe He is evil and unworthy of our praise. But is God good? And what does that mean to us?
What impressed Jesus in this story was the faith of the men who'd brought their friend to him - a friend who was crippled and lived in a low place of life. The phrase is "Jesus saw their faith." What does that mean? And what can it mean to us?
What would say to a man who was afraid of dying? A man who knew his death was just months away but couldn't handle that truth? Would you be able to turn his fear into hope?