Jesus healed a lot of bodies. You can read about that throughout the entire gospel accounts. But you know what? He not only healed a lot of people on the outside, He healed a lot of people on the inside. I think that’s often a lot more important. The stories are innumerable in scripture about that. A woman comes to Jesus with a hemorrhage, a bleeding disorder and she not only has a physical problem in her body, she’s got a great problem in her spirit, in her emotions

There was a church that was conducting a national poll surveying people’s views of the church. So they were asking people all sorts of questions. Who do you think Jesus is? What’s your experience with the church, etc? It’s said that one guy when asked “what is your church preference?” he thought about it for a while, a good minute. He was pretty confident in his answer and he responded boldly, “My church preference is red brick.”

Bobby and Johnny were the evil twins of the parochial school. They were always getting in trouble, always picking on people and it always seemed wherever they went things turned up missing somehow. They were creating all kinds of trouble. So finally one day the old monsignor had had enough. He grabbed Bobby by the ear, towed him into his office, and leaned over upon him, hoping to shake some fear into him, about the way God knows everything. He said, “Bobby, where is God?” Bobby shook himself out of the monsignor’s grasp, ran down the hallway and shouted out, “Johnny! Johnny run! God’s been stolen and they are trying to pin it on us!”