• Hope
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• Your Most Important Relationship
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• Joy
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• John
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• Luke

Beauty From Brokenness - #5948
They can see through your wounds the amazing beauty of a joy and a hope that only a Savior like Jesus can give. If you'll turn away from your despair, and maybe bitterness, anger, and self-pity, and give your brokenness to Him, He can do that miracle for you. The songwriter was right when he said, "All I had to offer Him was brokenness and strife. But He made something beautiful of my life."
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/beauty-from-brok...

One "Unloseable" Hope - #5944
That unloseable relationship with God comes only one way, because we're away from the God we need so much; away by our choice, not His. We've repeatedly chosen our way instead of His way and we've built an eternal wall between us and God. A wall that God Himself acted to tear down by sending His only Son, Jesus Christ, to pay for all our sins when He died on the cross.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/one-unloseable-h...

Who sinned? - a Christian perspective
Jesus refutes the idea that physical handicaps are caused by sin. He suggests instead that many of the challenges we face, physical and spiritual, are there in order that God can use us to demonstrate His power and love.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%209:1-7&version=NIV

Your sins are forgiven - a Christian perspective
What's more valuable--physical healing, or spiritual healing? That's the question Jesus poses in this interesting story of the healing of a paralytic man.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%209:1-7&version=NIV

Get up - a Christian perspective
Jesus heals an invalid just by commanding him to get up and walk. The man had been trying to get to the healing pool but was continually pushed aside by others.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%205:7-9&version=NIV

Paralytic in the Bible - a Christian perspective
In this passage Jesus heals a paralytic in front of a large crowd. The paralytic was lowered into the room where Jesus was teaching through the ceiling. His faith impressed Jesus.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%205:17-26&version=NIV

Bethsaida in the Bible - a Christian perspective
At Bethsaida, Jesus encountered a blind man who begged Jesus to touch him. Jesus responded by miraculously restoring his sight.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%208:22-26&version=NIV

The Carpenter's Miracle - #3424
We're dead in our sins even before we die physically. That may be what you're feeling right now - the despair, the hopelessness. Inside, you're kind of like our old barn - there are holes everywhere - you've just about giving hope of ever changing - you feel like it's all falling down. In your heart - maybe even in the eyes of others - your life seems ready for the bulldozer. Hang on. Here comes the Carpenter.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-carpenters-m...

When You've Been Burned - #3738
Hard steps, important steps, steps to healing. Jesus heals burn victims - and replaces their mourning with gladness, their ashes with beauty, their despair with praise. Let Him work that healing miracle in you.
http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/when-you-have-been-burned-3738

Your faith - a Christian perspective
Jesus healed many different people in the course of his ministry. In many of those cases, he suggested a link between the healing and the faith of the person asking for it.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%209:28-30&version=NIV