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How powerful is hope? Perhaps a better question is, how powerful is the absence of hope? Dr. Jerome Groopman teaches at Harvard Medical School. His research has focused on the basic mechanisms of cancer and AIDS. He describes the importance of hope from a medical perspective: "I think hope has been, is, and always will be the heart of medicine and healing. We could not live without hope. Even with all the medical technology available to us now, we still come back to this profound human need to believe that there is a possibility to reach a future that is better than the one in the present." We could not live without hope. This is true for religious and non-religious people. Republican or Democrat. For those who prefer American League or National League. It’s true whether you live in the 21st century or the 1st century. We come to Easter with the curse…

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When Christians speak of categories of people, we use many different labels: Lost or saved Christian or non-Christian Believer or non-believer To call someone a non-believer is misleading. I’ve met many “non-believers” who actually do believe in something -- it's just not what I believe in. They might believe in ... Will power Self-determination The law of attraction Karma Superstitions Homeopathic drugs The Golden Rule Survival of the fittest Tony Robbins Luck In other words, they are very much believers — they just don’t believe in the same source of power that a Christ-follower believes in. By nature, all of us are believers. I’ve never met anyone who held absolutely no beliefs. They might be strange beliefs or not-well-thought-out beliefs, but they were still beliefs. In today's passage, we meet two blind men who are following Jesus. To be blind in that culture was to be a social outcast. In both the…