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Sharing Your Need
Children's sermon
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First Thoughts: This passage about Bartimaeus invites some interesting questions about our relationship to God. How often do we just come right out and ask for what we need? Not only that, how often do we absolutely demand to be heard by God in our needfulness? My guess is that this is a type of prayer that is difficult for many of us. In our culture, being needy is a sign of weakness and expressing vulnerability is an invitation to contempt or abuse. We need to "put on a good face" and pretend things are going well even when (or particularly when) they aren't.
