Healing

There’s a widespread feeling that the material explanation is no longer sufficient; that something uncanny, maybe even numinous, is diffused into the texture of ordinary American life.
- Katya Ungerman

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81% of Americans say, “There is something spiritual beyond the natural world”.
- Pew Research

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67% of Americans believe miracles are still possible today.
- Pew Research

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Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death. “Unless you people see signs and wonders,” Jesus told him, “you will never believe.”
- John 4:46-48

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We want miracles as a solution to helplessness. We want miracles for meaning at a deeper level. Miracles lift us out of a humdrum life.
- Ross Peterson

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This was the second sign Jesus performed…
- John 4:54

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The point of anything miraculous in the Christian life is to point to Christ himself.

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Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.
- John 4:46-47

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We are most deeply formed in our most desperate seasons.

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The royal official said, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” “Go,” Jesus replied, “your son will live.” The man took Jesus at his word and departed.
- John 4:49-50

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Faith is cultivated in the gap and distance between promise and fulfillment.

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While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living. When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, “Yesterday, at one in the afternoon, the fever left him.” Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” So he and his whole household believed.
- John 4:51-53