Not Mud: Trees — When Jesus Touches You but It’s Still Blurry | Pastor Robert Tisdale

On Father’s Day at Tampa Life Church, Pastor Robert Tisdale honors dads and encourages men to lead their families in prayer and spiritual initiative, noting the church has more men attending than women. He then begins a new message, “Not Mud: Trees,” contrasting a messy miracle with an incomplete one, and teaches from Mark 8:22–26 about the blind man who is brought to Jesus by others’ faith. Pastor emphasizes that believers initiate by bringing others to Jesus, that miracles often require separation from unhealthy environments like Bethsaida, and that Jesus’ personal, sometimes uncomfortable methods can awaken faith before full clarity comes. He urges honest confession about partial healing (“I see men as trees”), warns against settling for distortion, and calls the congregation to ask Jesus to “touch me again” for complete transformation.00:00 Father’s Day Welcome01:03 Honoring Men and Families02:52 Series Intro Not Mud Trees04:39 Bring Them to Jesus07:51 When Dysfunction Feels Normal08:48 Separation Starts Healing14:05 Don’t Go Back to Bethsaida18:25 Recovery of Sight Promise23:32 Jesus Heals in Strange Ways26:24 Feel Before You See29:28 Do You See Anything31:20 Disappointment Makes You Look Down34:57 Hopelessness And Learned Helplessness36:29 Look Up Again40:29 Honest Confession Brings Completion45:40 Better Is Not Whole47:33 Healing Distorted Vision53:09 Touch Me Again