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john fischer the catch grace turned outward john fischer the catch grace turned outward skip to content home about us about the catch ministry john s education awards and leadership author writer speaker and references contribute appearances audio downloads more than a program a community prayer requests older posts women god called posted on august 5 2026 by jwfisch eve sarah rachel rahab ruth deborah jael abagail lydia mary magdalene phoebe priscilla junia to name a few of the women of the bible question how can the church today be so divided over the role of women when the bible is full of stories of influential women who carried out key roles in the history of the human race the nation of the jews and the early church continue reading posted in uncategorized tagged women of the bible 3 comments the miracle of stepping into someone else s shoes posted on july 31 2026 by jwfisch by marti fischer could a greater miracle take place than to look through each other s eyes for an instant if we could stand in someone else s shoes and hear what they hear see what they see feel what they feel wouldn t we approach each other differently continue reading posted in uncategorized tagged grace turned outward 3 comments against the wind posted on july 30 2026 by jwfisch some folks hate the whites who hate the blacks who hate the klan most of us hate anything that we don t understand kris kristofferson this is a huge reality today in a time of great division and people gathering in factions or silos on the internet it s now possible for every ethnic social or religious group to have its own online identity which supports their biases beliefs and prejudices in this type of social environment it s very easy to stay in your own silo and disregard everybody else in their silos what develops then are isolated groups who have their own take on reality and the news and suddenly the picture kristofferson paints in the two lines above becomes a reality and how true it is that most of us hate anything outside of our own group that we don t understand continue reading posted in uncategorized tagged diversity 1 comment help yourself to me posted on july 30 2026 by jwfisch jesus was a capricorn he ate organic food he believed in love and peace and never wore no shoes long hair beard and sandals and a funky bunch of friends reckon we d just nail him up if he came down again continue reading posted in uncategorized tagged communion leave a comment some folks world posted on july 28 2026 by jwfisch some folks world is war torn some folks world is fine this planet makes no sense to the untrained mind some folks hope for fortune some folks hope to die we all see our fate through our own two eyes and when it s day to me it s night to someone and when it s night you may not want to go on continue reading posted in uncategorized tagged empathy 3 comments jesus was a refugee posted on july 27 2026 by jwfisch foxes have dens and birds have nests but the son of man has no place to lay his head matthew 8 20 we are stardust we are golden and we ve got to get ourselves back to the garden joni mitchell the kingdom of god is made up of refugees when you start thinking about refugees in the bible it s hard to find anyone who was not at least at one time a refugee continue reading posted in uncategorized tagged empathy refugees 1 comment take up empathy now posted on july 24 2026 by jwfisch remember those in prison as if you were there yourself remember also those being mistreated as if you felt their pain in your own bodies hebrews 13 3 there is no clearer statement of empathy anywhere than what is found in the scriptures remember those in prison as if you were there yourself well wait a minute they are in prison how do you get in prison you break the law you steal something or kill someone or rape someone and any number of criminal activities and we re supposed to remember them as if we were there with them why we re supposed to have empathy toward criminals continue reading posted in uncategorized tagged empathy leave a comment what makes marti go posted on july 22 2026 by jwfisch so far we ve discovered that empathy is walking a mile in someone else s shoes to see the world as they see it and feel their situation as they feel it and if this person is important to you then the things they see and feel will be important to you as well and it requires you to get out of your own shoes in order to get into theirs and that s an important step that we often miss continue reading posted in uncategorized tagged empathy 3 comments what ever happened to empathy posted on july 20 2026 by jwfisch it was humanly impossible to hear this scream and not feel pain this was not play acting there was something wrong and someone was in trouble continue reading posted in uncategorized tagged empathy 1 comment and moved with compassion posted on july 17 2026 by jwfisch when he went ashore he saw a large crowd and felt compassion for them and healed their sick matthew 14 14 empathy is not just a feeling it s a feeling that compels us to do something numerous times in the gospel accounts of the life of jesus it says he was moved with compassion but that compassion was never an end in itself jesus did not just sit there being moved his compassion drove him to do something about it whether it was to heal someone or sit down and teach a crowd of people or in a couple of instances it drove him to feed them because he put himself in their shoes and knew they d be hungry i feel compassion for the people he once told his disciples because they have remained with me now three days and have nothing to eat and i do not want to send them away hungry for they might faint on the way matthew 15 32 so given that he fed them he didn t just teach them he wasn t just concerned about their souls he got inside their shoes and realized they were hungry so he did what he could do he performed a miracle and fed them empathy is very practical it gets us inside people it spurs us on to grace empathy is not for contemplation it is for action if it doesn t produce any change in us it is just a useless exercise we would be better off not knowing we created a video a while back that contained footage of random people walking by or sitting on a park bench or pushing a stroller and with each one we imagined in a sentence what might be going through the mind of that person someone just found out the test was positive someone s son is serving in a dangerous environment and she hasn t heard from him a couple is breaking up someone just lost her job a dad just found out his wife is pregnant these are things that empathy would tell you and knowing the truth would draw you closer either to weep with or rejoice with someone and ultimately to do something to help acknowledge the feeling or alleviate the pain that s where grace goes outward to those around us but you have to know you can t just guess you have to know and once you know you can do something about it but while he was still a long way off his father saw him and felt compassion for him and ran and embraced him and kissed him luke 15 20 posted in uncategorized tagged empathy leave a comment older posts search for member partner prayer request follow me on twitter my tweets archives archives select month august 2026 july 2026 june 2026 may 2026 april 2026 march 2026 february 2026 january 2026 december 2025 november 2025 october 2025 september 2025 august 2025 july 2025 june 2025 may 2025 april 2025 march 2025 february 2025 january 2025 december 2024 november 2024 october 2024 september 2024 august 2024 july 2024 june 2024 may 2024 april 2024 march 2024 february 2024 january 2024 december 2023 november 2023 october 2023 september 2023 august 2023 july 2023 june 2023 may 2023 april 2023 march 2023 february 2023 january 2023 december 2022 november 2022 october 2022 september 2022 august 2022 july 2022 june 2022 may 2022 april 2022 march 2022 february 2022 january 2022 december 2021 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