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Is illness caused by sin?
Can we get possessed by demons?
Why does Jesus rub mud and spit in a man’s eye?
Are there rules on miraculous healing?
Why does Jesus call himself a good shepherd?

This week David and I cover John chapters 9 and 10, reading through an unconventional healing of a blind man and some of Jesus's teachings on who he claims to be. So grab your Bibles and come read with us!

Notes from the producers on this week's episode: 

• The ALPHA quote referred to in this episode has many unconfirmed sources and reads as the following: "Unforgiveness is like drinking poison and hoping the other person dies."
• You can hear more of Esther Beckley's testimony mentioned on this episode in Burning Heart's video, Why Pray?
• The book David references in this episode is The Good Shepherd  by Kenneth E. Bailey.
• The two CS Lewis quotes on today's episode are from his book Mere Christianity. 
  • "Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive."
  • "A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic–on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg–or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse..."

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Original music by Jack Gionis.