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 man in particular, someone who has been there for thirty-eight years, and asks him something that seems, on the surface, absurd: “Do you want to be healed?” Of course he wants to be healed. He’s been lying by that pool for nearly four decades. Who…

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 hurry past doors that no longer had visitors lined up outside. Cancer has a way of clearing a room over time. The casseroles stop coming. The calls get shorter. The person in the bed becomes, to almost everyone but a few, someone to check on…

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 eyes he could see nothing. So they led him by the hand into Damascus. For three days he was blind, and did not eat or drink anything.” — Acts 9:3-4, 8-9 Saul was on his way somewhere specific. He had a destination, a purpose, a…