The Power of Touch (1 of 4)
Series: Living Like Jesus
Jeff Strite
Mark 1:40-45
We're going to begin today's sermon with a trivia question:
Question: What is the largest organ of your body?
(Answer: the skin)
If you an average adult, your skin covers about 21 square feet of your body. It will weigh 9 pounds and contain more than 11 miles of blood vessels.
If you think you look bad in the mirror with no clothes on… imagine how bad you'd look without any skin. Your skin holds your body together, and protects you from various dangerous bacteria and viruses.
In hot weather, your skin will release as much as 3 gallons of sweat a day. However, your eardrums, the area around your lips and your nail beds will not sweat.
Most people think that the only reason we have fingerprints is so the police can find us if we've been bad, but God designed them so that you'd have the ability to grip items in your hands. Unborn children don't develop fingerprints until after 3 months in the womb, and some people never develop fingerprints at all. There are 2 rare genetic defects that deprive some people from having them.
And you really need to clean up after yourselves. Your skin sheds 50,000 cells every minute. Globally, dead skin accounts for about a billion tons of dust in the atmosphere.
Your skin is a very special creation by God. And one of the primary functions of your skin is to help you ''feel'' the world around you. There are at least 5 different types of receptors in the skin that help us to respond to pain and to touch. And in blind people, the brain becomes rewired so they can respond to stimulus received through touch and hearing. Thus, the blind literally ''see'' the world thru touch and sound.
The ability to touch and ''feel'' the world around us is critical to us.
ILLUS: Back in the 1940s someone conducted a study of 26 children in an orphanage. The babies were more or less cut off from human contact in their cribs, or where a single n ...
Series: Living Like Jesus
Jeff Strite
Mark 1:40-45
We're going to begin today's sermon with a trivia question:
Question: What is the largest organ of your body?
(Answer: the skin)
If you an average adult, your skin covers about 21 square feet of your body. It will weigh 9 pounds and contain more than 11 miles of blood vessels.
If you think you look bad in the mirror with no clothes on… imagine how bad you'd look without any skin. Your skin holds your body together, and protects you from various dangerous bacteria and viruses.
In hot weather, your skin will release as much as 3 gallons of sweat a day. However, your eardrums, the area around your lips and your nail beds will not sweat.
Most people think that the only reason we have fingerprints is so the police can find us if we've been bad, but God designed them so that you'd have the ability to grip items in your hands. Unborn children don't develop fingerprints until after 3 months in the womb, and some people never develop fingerprints at all. There are 2 rare genetic defects that deprive some people from having them.
And you really need to clean up after yourselves. Your skin sheds 50,000 cells every minute. Globally, dead skin accounts for about a billion tons of dust in the atmosphere.
Your skin is a very special creation by God. And one of the primary functions of your skin is to help you ''feel'' the world around you. There are at least 5 different types of receptors in the skin that help us to respond to pain and to touch. And in blind people, the brain becomes rewired so they can respond to stimulus received through touch and hearing. Thus, the blind literally ''see'' the world thru touch and sound.
The ability to touch and ''feel'' the world around us is critical to us.
ILLUS: Back in the 1940s someone conducted a study of 26 children in an orphanage. The babies were more or less cut off from human contact in their cribs, or where a single n ...
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