Needless to say, I can't get today's message off my mind.  I've been thinking about it almost every single minute that I've been awake.  (I did a take a three hour nap this afternoon, so I wasn't thinking about it then.)  :)

Here's the thing:  I can honestly say that I have a ton of faith in God.  I don't say that with any measure of pride, because there is *nothing* I have done to earn this faith.  It has just been given to me.  The most I have ever done to gain faith is to ask for more of it.  Almost everytime I have started to have serious do

Pastor Randy mentioned another aspect of the story of the blind man this morning.  Matthew, Mark, and Luke are three books of the Bible written by eye witnesses of Jesus' ministry.  Therefore, they are basically the same story written from three different viewpoints.  Due to their different personalities and experiences, all three men accounted what they witnessed slightly differently.  For instance, Matthew was a tax collector, an accountant of sorts.  He was probably a fairly analytical and mathematical sort of person.  He probably paid more attention to the num