Taking from a sermon given at New Life Church, Glenn Packiam tells the story of blind Bartimaeus in dramatic fashion as a picture of how confessing our deepest need to the only One who can heal us is a way of opening ourselves up to God's grace. The sermon was called "Lucky are the God-Dependent" and is based on the first Beatitude in Luke 6. Glenn's new book, "LUCKY: How the Kingdom Comes to Unlikely People", is a study on the Beatitudes in Lukes 6 within a Kingdom framework.