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The Pools of Bethesda [At the Pools of Bethesda] Here a great number of disabled people used to lie – the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long…

The Sheep Gate – also call the Lion’s Gate and Stephen’s Gate   Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for the feast of the Jews. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. John 5:1-2 Just…

Olives on the Tree   We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed but not in despair; persecuted but not abandoned, struck down but not destroyed. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 I’d been told it would happen. The scriptures are coming alive for me. I honestly didn’t realize how significantly it would change my…

    Overlooking Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south. On that…

I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to…

A Christian is like a pumpkin? What? It’s a comparison, but the process of selecting and carving a pumpkin describes God care for us.