List/Grid Monthly Archives: October 2008
Sunday Sermons and Healing
Frequently, I like to ask my friends or people I meet the question: “when was the last time you heard a complete sermon on healing, miracles, or gifts of the…
What Healing Ministry Should Look Like
It must be obvious to even the casual reader that I have more than a passing interest in the matter of divine healing. It occupies a lot of my waking…
We do what we believe…
I shared a little while back one of the reasons we have a marked lack of healings in our churches. There are many actually, but I want to focus on…
Another Ode to Doctors
I remember a humorous story told by a pastor who was very sick with malaria. Very seriously sick. He stood on faith for his healing but did not make a…
Thank God for doctors..
“Yes”, he said, “it’s broken all right”. The wrist surgeon took another look at the MRI against the bright light overhead and nodded, “you’ll need surgery for this.” I sighed,…
Parking Lot Healings (I know, not in church…)
I carved away at my steak as I simultaneously made conversation with a new friend at a restaurant. As we chatted about this and that, I noticed she would shift…
Forgiveness precedes healing
I looked at the earnest face in front of me as I prepared for my second case for the night. A regular evening at the Healing Rooms. The gentleman was…
Healing is hard…(Part 2)
In my last post, I declared: “healing is hard”. This may have caused a furrowed brow or two among a few hardy Christian brethren, but I promised I’d do my…
Healing is hard…(Part 1)
“Healing is hard“, I once told a friend of mine. “What do you mean?“, he asked. “If it was easy, every one would be doing it,” I countered. Instead, one…
Thoughts on the Florida Outpouring
Every few decades, in response to the hunger of praying men and women, revival arrives in a part of the world – Azusa in 1906, the Welsh Revival in 1904,…
Healing in an instant of time…
“Hi, how are you?” came the voice over the telephone. A few seconds back, I’d been sitting at my computer, trying to write a complex computer program and quite oblivious…
Are Anecdote + Experience = Theology?
I wanted to stay on the theme of God’s will in healing for a moment. There’s a great example in Mark and an Luke 5:12. It goes as follows:
(Mark 1:40-41 NIV) A man with leprosy came to him and begged him on his knees, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.” {41} Filled with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!”
For me, God’s willingness seems quite clear, as in the other 25 instances of individual healings in the New Testament. Jesus said “I
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