Sometimes a story in the Bible has me feeling like a kid in a candy shop. There are so many goodies in front of me that it's difficult to know which one to select. Such were my feelings as I prepared this sermon on the healing of the paralytic.

I was tempted to entitle this sermon, “When Jesus Is There, The House Is Full," but, I doubted that would be true on a snowy Sunday. I considered a country music theme, “We Get By With A Little Help From Our Friends." Of course, we do.

I don't usually remember sermons, not even my own. I do remember a sermon preached from this text, however. It was 1963 and I was a freshman in college. One night some vandalism took place to the boys' dormitory. The next day in chapel, President Z.T. Johnson preached a sermon entitled, “Who Fixed The Roof?" In it…