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Heresy Healers

Doctrine, Healing, Heresy, Pastoring, the Bible, Truth

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

The Good In Pain

Healing, Hurting, Pain, Suffering

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…

He Truly Cares

Aslan, C.S. Lewis, Care, Compassion, God's Love, Healing, Prayer, Unanswered Prayer

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,…

We Can Fix It

Bicycle, Broken, Brokenness, Clock, Culture, God's Faithfulness, God's Healing, God's Wisdom, God's Work, Healing, Redemption, Salvation, Society, The Cross, Tools, We Can Fix It, World

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

Blind To The Need

Bartimaeus, Blind to the need, blindness, Disability, Healing, Jesus, Leader, Leadership, Needs, Others, Value

It can be uncomfortable to be confronted by someone who is hurting or has an obvious need, but it only takes one leader to…

Hurdles of Opportunity

Forgiveness, God's Plan, Healing, Holy Spirit, Hurdles of Opportunity, Interruptions, Jesus' Healing, Jesus' Teaching, Ministry, Others, Vision

There are times when our own vision is not aligned with what God actually wants to do in a human heart or situation. Jesus…

The Driving Pain

1 Peter 2:24, Acts 10:38, Disease, Emotional Pain, Exodus 15:26, Faith, God's Healing, Healing, Hurting, Jeremiah 17:14, Matthew 11:28-29, Pain, Psalm 147:2, Sickness, Spiritual Healing

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…

The Driving Pain

1 Peter 2:24, Acts 10:38, Disease, Emotional Pain, Exodus 15:26, Faith, God's Healing, Healing, Hurting, Jeremiah 17:14, Matthew 11:28-29, Pain, Psalm 147:2, Sickness, Spiritual Healing

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…

Uncomfortable Miracles

Acts 3:16, Comfort, Discomfort, Faith, Healing, Jeremiah 32:27, Job 5:8-9, Luke 18:27, Matthew 19:26, Miracle, Mystery, New Life, Order, Rules, Transformation

“Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It’s true: They rebut every rule all we good citizens take comfort…

The Power of Forgiveness

1 John 2:2, Colossians 3:13, Desire, Forgiveness, Healing, Love, Luke 6:37, Micah 7:18, Miracle, Need, Proverbs 17:9, Reconciliation, Spiritual Healing, The Great Physician, Time

Producer Helen Whitney helped create a documentary in 2011 called Forgiveness: A Time to Love and a Time to Hate. She explains in this…

Laughing in Trouble

2 Corinthians 1:21, Colossians 1:11-12, Conversion, Conviction, Equanimity, Forgiveness, Healing, James 1:12, Perseverance, Revelation 3:10, Romans 12:12, Testimony, Trusting God, Truth, Unbelief

In 2010, Laura Hillenbrand released a book entitled Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. She shared Louis Zamperini’s experience…