How Healing Comes – Avenue #1
In the next few weeks, I’d like to move from obstacles to healing and accounts of healing to the ways that God heals. Based on a careful reading of the Word, there are, in my count, 16 different ways that…
Month November 2008
Reflections from a Healing Meeting – Part 2
(continued…) At this point, everyone is on their feet. They want to see what will happen. The evangelist is completely unmoved and unbothered. In that moment, I understood the difference between faith and hope, between certainty and uncertainty, between being…
Reflections from a Healing Meeting – Part 1
In the early 1990s, I attended a large healing crusade held by a healing evangelist. I’ll keep him anonymous because my focus is on the meeting, not the person. I happened on the meeting quite accidentally. I had a seen…
Prayer and Intercession – lost keys to healing
In many churches I have visited in the United States, we seem to be specialists in church socialization. From ‘pizza nights’ to ‘game nights’ to ‘movie nights’, we don’t hold back from opportunities to stay amused. Call an ‘all-intercession night’…
Misconceptions about Paul’s Thorn
I was sitting with a few friends in a restaurant a few years ago, when one of them leaned over and whispered, with what might been a touch of pride to me, “You know, I think I’ve got a thorn,…