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Why are you amazed?

Posted on October 9, 2014 Written by Mark McIntyre 7 Comments

Amazed

I can read about miracles in the Bible and not be amazed. The flannel graph presentations of my youth have made the stories so familiar that too often I do not connect with how radical the events actually were. This healing should amaze me but its familiarity masks how marvelous it really is.

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