Get Up Now there is in Jerusalem … a pool which in Aramaic is called Bethesda … Here a great number of disabled people used to lie – the blind, the lame, the paralysed. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learnt that he
Jesus – One with the Father So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews persecuted him. Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working.” For this reason the Jews tried all the more to kill him; not only was
The Apprenticeship Model Jesus gave them this answer: “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing of himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does” John 5:19,20 This is
Resurrection Life – Now I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life. I tell you the truth, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice
The Greater Things “For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your amazement he will show him even greater things than these. For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it. Moreover,
Good and Evil Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in the graves will hear his voice and come out – those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned. By myself I can do nothing:
Believing Prayer George Mueller was 31 years old when he began the work he is best remembered for, the housing and care of more than 10,000 orphans. Surprisingly, he didn’t begin his international speaking ministry until he was 72 years old. After ministering throughout Europe George set off for North America. The ship was off
God’s Good Provision In his lifetime in the 1800’s, George Mueller founded orphanages that housed and fed more than 10,000 children. He started 117 schools that educated more than 120,000 children, many of them orphans. All this was done without any income stream outside of God’s miraculous provision. But not everything went to plan. One
Determined for Jesus Jonathon Goforth’s name is not well known to us but in his own day he became God’s mouthpiece for a great revival through his beloved China and adjoining Manchuria. Born in 1859 and raised in a hard working country family in Canada, Jonathon had little opportunity for schooling. By the age of
Setbacks Jonathon Goforth was a missionary pioneer in China in the later 1800’s and early 1900’s. His life was often in danger but never as much as in the Boxer rebellion of 1900. The rebellion brought to the surface Chinese tensions against foreigners that had simmered for decades. Thousands died in the rebellion including 200
