Category: Soul Care Basics

Topic: Soul Care Basics   —   Key Scripture: Joshua 3 and Matthew 12:9-14 There’s a detail in Joshua 3 that gets skipped over too quickly, because we already know how the story ends. Israel is standing at the edge of the Jordan River, and it’s at flood stage — not a trickle, but a genuine barrier.…

Topic: Soul Care Basics   —   Key Scripture: John 5:1-9 There’s a question in John 5 that sounds almost cruel until you sit with it long enough to feel its weight. Jesus is at the pool of Bethesda, surrounded by people waiting for healing — the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. He walks up to one…

Topic: Soul Care Basics   —   Key Scripture: Matthew 25:40-45 There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from caring for someone the world has quietly stopped noticing. I remember sitting in many different hospital rooms over the years — sitting with people who had strong families, and those who only had regrets — watching nurses…

Topic: Soul Care Basics   —   Key Scripture: Acts 9:3-4, 8-9 “As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?’ …Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his…

Topic: Soul Care Basics   —   Key Scriptures: Mark 2:3-5 “And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic…