“Healing and Transformation: Healing Our Sight”
October 18, 2020 | Bart Tarman | Message and Music
Pastor Bart Tarman delivers the message “Healing and Transformation: Healing Our Sight”, with music from Music Director Kathleen Sieck and Linda Tarman.
Sermon
Children’s Story Time
References and Resources
Scripture:
Matthew 6:22-23
22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light; 23 but if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
John 9
1 As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him. 4 We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming when no one can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” 6 When he had said this, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva and spread the mud on the man’s eyes, 7 saying to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). Then he went and washed and came back able to see. 8 The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar began to ask, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” 9 Some were saying, “It is he.” Others were saying, “No, but it is someone like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.” 10 But they kept asking him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” 11 He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ Then I went and washed and received my sight.” 12 They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”
Mark 8
22 They came to Bethsaida. Some people brought a blind man to him and begged him to touch him. 23 He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village; and when he had put saliva on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, “Can you see anything?” 24 And the man looked up and said, “I can see people, but they look like trees, walking.” 25 Then Jesus laid his hands on his eyes again; and he looked intently and his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. 26 Then he sent him away to his home, saying, “Do not even go into the village.”
Lyrics:
“Good To Me”
I put all my hope in the truth of your promise
And I steady my heart on the ground of your goodness
When I’m bowed down with sorrow, I will lift up your name
And the foxes in the vineyard will not steal my joy
Because you are good to me, good to me
You are good to me, good to me
You are good to me
I lift my eyes to the hills where my help comes from
And your voice fills the night, raise my head up to hear the sound
Though fires burn all around me, I will praise you my God
And the foxes in the vineyard will not steal my joy
Because you are good to me, good to me
You are good to me, good to me
You are good to me
Your goodness and mercy shall follow me
All of my life I will trust in your promise (4x)
Because you are good to me, good to me
You are good to me, good to me
You are good to me
Writings:
Bart’s notes on Brian McLaren
Brian McLaren: Biases
Podcast based on his Book “Why They Don’t Get It”
1. Confirmation:
a. welcomes information that confirms what it already thinks and resists information that does not confirm what it already thinks.
2. Complexity:
a. Prefers a simple lie to a complex truth.
3. Community:
a. Makes it very difficult to believe something that your group does not.
b. Tribe over Truth
4. Complimentarity:
a. If people are nice to you, you will be open to what they see
b. If people are not nice to you, you won’t.
5. Contact:
a. If you lack contact with people, you won’t see what they see
6. Liberal/Conservative:
a. We like to see what our party sees and we flock with those who see as we do.
7. Consciousness:
a. Our brains see from a location
b. A person’s cognitive maturity or level of consciousness makes seeing some things possible and other things impossible.
8. Competancy
a. We prefer to think of ourselves as above average!
b. Thus we are incompentent to know how incompetent or competent we really are.
9. Confidence
a. Our brains prefer a confident lie to a hesitant truth
b. Confuse confidence with competence
c. We are vulnerable to a lie when it spoken with confidence
10. Conspiracy
a. When we feel shame our brain likes a story where we are the victimes of the Villain
b. We never want to be the Villain.
11. Comfortability
a. We don’t like truths that would cause us to adjust our views or behaviors.
b. Our brains welcome data that allow us to relax and be happy
c. Our brains reject data that is inconvenient or makes us have to adjust.
d. Our brains are lazy but fast!
12. Catastrophe/ Baseline bias/Normalcy
a. Our brains want to believe that the current normalcy has always been and should always be.
b. Vulnerable to slow developing catastrophes
13. Cash
a. It is hard to see any truth that would get in the way of us making money