Here is a story that confronts death head-on. And here is a story that speaks into death with a word of life.

Bartimaeus’ faith is a reformation kind of faith – a faith in a God who changes us.

Jesus frees us and invites us to Something Bigger Than Ourselves: To love as we are loved.

What happens if we read this story not as “The Rich Man” but as “The Man Whom Jesus Sees and Loves”?

From the very beginning, we are created to be in community with one another.