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Forgiving Enemies, Becoming Friends

Christ's Example, Enemies, Forgiveness, Friends, Friendship, Healing, Love, Prayer

After a twenty-four-hour shift, firefighter and EMT Matt Swatzell fell asleep at the wheel, crashing into another vehicle. As a result, June Fitzgerald was…

All Sins Washed Away

Baptism, Cross, Forgiveness, Grace, Healing, Purity, Salvation, Washed Clean

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…

Perfectly Built Model

Future, Healing, Hope, Restoration

Imagine a perfectly built model of something (LEGOs, toothpicks, clay) that you have spent so much time designing into the exact idea in your…

Messing Up

Failure, Forgiveness, Healing, Hope, Sin

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…

Stories of Healing

Brokenness, Healing, Relationship with Christ, Relationship with God, Spiritual 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…

Getting Well

Healer, Healing, Medicine, Salvation, Sanctification, Sickness, Sin

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

The Good Surgeon

Great Physician, Healing, Job, Sanctification, Suffering, Trusting God

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

Hurting Turns Into Healing

Hard times, Healing, Hurt, Psalms, Trusting God

Trusting God in adversity is difficult, but we must do it. Josh Moody gives a great example of how hurting can turn into healing:…

“If you have enough faith, Will God heal you?”

Answering Prayer, Faith, Faith in Christ, Healing, Prayer

Joni Eareckson Tada, who has lived as a quadriplegic for fifty years, shares her answer to the question “If you have enough faith, will…

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…