Illustrations About Healing

Healing Lands

We’re privileged to see glimpses of God’s future restoration in the resilience of the natural world around us now. The American Dust Bowl in the

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Pitfalls of Pride

The critically acclaimed film The Shawshank Redemption (directed by Frank Darabont, Columbia Pictures, 1994) serves as a good example of the dangers and pitfalls of pride. “Warden Norton never shied away from embarrassing

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All Sins Washed Away

Marilynne Robinson’s novel Lila follows the story of a young woman—a drifter from birth, without home or family—who finds hope in the church and even

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Messing Up

On his podcast The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, Mike Cosper interviewed Joshua Harris about Harris’s path from evangelical golden boy to leaving the

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Stories of Healing

When considering who in the congregation would be a good candidate to share their story of healing, expand your search to anyone who clung tightly

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Getting Well

There are times when we are ill or injured and the cure or treatment is unpleasant or just plain awful. Kids have to take yucky-tasting

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The Good Surgeon

Why do the righteous suffer? John Piper writes about this passage: “Elihu puts the pain of sickness and visions of the night side by side

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Heresy Healers

In this article, a pastor explains how he had to learn the hard way to be a “heresy healer” instead of a “heresy hunter.” He

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The Good In Pain

Most of us like to avoid pain at all costs. But world-famous surgeon Paul Brand will tell you that pain is an important and valuable

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He Truly Cares

Pete Greig relates a story and quotes from C. S. Lewis’s The Magician’s Nephew. In the book, a boy named Digory begs the Lion, Aslan,

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We Can Fix It

A grandfather was working in his workshop on a warm spring afternoon. He watched out the window as his grandson rode his bike in the

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The Driving Pain

Most of us like to avoid pain at all costs. But world-famous surgeon Paul Brand will tell you that pain is an important and valuable

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