4/23/2007

Healing upon healing

Sunday April 29th, Acts 9: 36 In Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which, when translated, is Dorcas, both words mean gazelle), who was always doing good and helping the poor. 37 About that time she became sick and died, and her body was washed and placed in an upstairs room. 38 Lydda was near Joppa; so when the disciples heard that Peter was in Lydda, they sent two men to him and urged him, "Please come at once!" Last week we heard of Peter being forgiven and sent into the 153 known nations, instead of the sea, to fish. This week we find him near Joppa, in the area around Tel-Aviv. It is here that Peter has the vision of the blanket, the unclean animals and the voice of God telling him not to call unclean anything God had made. Tabitha who also has a Greek name, would have been one of those unclean things Peter thought he might avoid. Acts calls here a disciple. This is a story of healing and healing. What disciples do we call unclean?

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