DAILY READING John 9:13-34 REFLECTION   Perspectives on Healing By Dave Mann This healing of a blind man is one of my favorite accounts of Jesus’ miracles.  There are several different perspectives of the healing – the Pharisees’, the parents’, and the blindman’s.  However, the only quibble I have with the story is that I wish John had given us the name of the formerly blind man.  I will name him “FB” -- formerly blindman.   The Pharisees started off with their conclusion that Jesus was a...

DAILY READING John 6:25-59 REFLECTION   The Gift or the Giver By Dave Mann Jesus has just accomplished another sign – feeding 5000 people on a mountainside.  Why had these people followed Jesus onto a mountain side?  Because they had seen the signs he had performed by healing the sick.  What was Jesus intending to accomplish with these signs?  One of the main points we have heard during this preaching series on the signs in the gospel of John is that the purpose of a sign is to point to...

DAILY READING John 5:16-29 REFLECTION   Who Is He? By Dave Mann On Sunday mornings, we are studying Jesus’ signs recorded by John -- actions that point to Jesus as the divine Son of God.  In this text, we see that Jesus’ teaching also points to his divinity.   If Jesus were not God in human flesh, the kinds of things that he said would certainly cause a ruckus.   Jesus words would cause a card-carrying Pharisee to pick up a stone or two.    Here are the words of Jesus (in italics), followed...