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Jesus arrives at Jairus's house to find the professional mourners already there, the experts in death, certain they know exactly what they're looking at. When He says the child is not dead but sleeping, they laugh Him down. The Greek word is kategelōn, contemptuous, derisive laughter. They weren't wrong because they were bad at their job. They were wrong because their expertise had a ceiling, and what was about to happen in that room came from above it. In this Super Short Thought from the D

Two desperate people. One journey. A Saviour who will not be rushed. In Mark 5:21-43, Jesus is on his way to heal a dying twelve year old girl when a woman who has bled for twelve years reaches out and touches his robe ... a very significant act in itself. What happens next tells us something vital about how Jesus sees the people everyone else has stopped noticing. In this episode of Word for the Week, we walk through both stories together: the ritual uncleanness that had shut the woman out o

What do you actually need on the worst day of your life? An explanation. A nice theory? What about the question: is there any reason not to give up right now? That is exactly where Jairus is standing in Mark 5:21-43. His daughter was dying, Jesus agreed to come, and then there was a delay. Messengers arrived and told him what we call 'The Worst'. It's too late (they said): "your daughter's dead, don't bother the teacher anymore." And Jesus turned to Jairus and said, "Do not fear, only b

Two people. Same afternoon. Same town. Both facing the worst day of their lives, and neither one knows the other exists. A woman who has been bleeding for twelve years, spending everything she has on cures that never worked. A little girl, just twelve years old, whose life is about to end before it has properly begun. Jesus meets both of them on the same afternoon, and speaks the same authority over both. "Daughter, your faith has made you well." "Cariad, get up." This Super Short Thought loo

On the way to save a dying child, Jesus stops ... not for the crowd pressing all around Him, but for one woman who was DESPERATE, who reached out with nothing left to lose. Here's a Super Short Thought on Mark 5:25-34: the woman who had spent everything, tried everyone, and risked one moment of covert contact as her very last chance. Jesus knows the difference between a crowd touching Him and a person actually reaching for Him. And Jesus ... did something very unexpected. Part of the Discover

The Show's over. But the horseflies are still biting. And something I saw at the boot sale won't leave me alone. Nearly 2,000 years ago, a man named John opened a letter with words we now toss around without thinking: "I pray that you may prosper and be in health, just as your soul is prospering" (3 John 1:2). Walking the showground this week, that line gripped me differently, because what I saw wasn't just a nation carrying the weight of years indoors and years of the wrong fuel. It was a qu