In our two passages today, Jesus heals a lame man and then he feeds a hungry crowd. Both of these stories are filled with the awe and the wonder of the power of Jesus over our pain, our suffering, our fears, our deepest longings and our unsatisfied hungers.

It seems providential to me that we would be diving into a series on the miracles of Jesus in the gospel of John during this season that we find ourselves in here in America.