Church
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Potential Barriers to Healing
When people that matter to us become ill, we always want them to get well. We want them to be healed or cured of whatever ails them, and as quickly as possible so they can be restored to us. For… Continue reading
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Ask before praying
Once upon a time, one of the treasured elderly ladies at church became ill, and ended up being hospitalised. She was a faithful, humble, gentle woman that had helped to shepherd me through my early days as a believer, and… Continue reading
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Oh dear, I feel a peeve coming on…..
One of those things I find irritating is the verbiage commonly adopted by many Christians, because when speaking to others that are not part of, or involved with any institutional church, these expressions basically make little sense. I understand that… Continue reading
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Life, Death & Healing: Then and Now
From time to time I have pondered how it is that so many believers from generations past appeared to receive a healing more easily, when people of this day and age so often do not. Even in these modern times,… Continue reading
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Life, Death and Healing – an introduction
Healing always seems to be such a popular, yet controversial topic amongst Christians. Well, that and tithing. But ever since I was baptised with the Spirit of God and read through the New Testament, the phrase “and they were all… Continue reading
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Tradition. Again.
Reaching a point of absolute exasperation with the Jews he was speaking to in Corinth, Paul gave up trying to persuade them to see and accept what was plainly written about the Messiah in the scriptures, and how all of… Continue reading
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Tradition….tradition!
So I don’t know about you, but most of the time when I hear ‘tradition’ like that, I tend to hear the whole cast of Fiddler on the Roof in my head belting out the song from the movie. And… Continue reading
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Follow me….
Have you ever noticed the way some drivers will slow down as they drive past the scene of an accident? You can see them rubber-necking, as if hoping to catch a glimpse of blood or tragedy – because for them,… Continue reading
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Is Church Like Santa – the sequel
Before I became born-again, I would have told you that I was a Christian simply because I believed in Jesus and God. Even though their existence was an accepted fact to me, the idea of having a relationship with either… Continue reading
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Is Church Like Santa?
Remember when you were a child and your parents told you about Santa Claus? A wonderful picture would have been built in your mind about this kind, jolly, generous man and what his coming at Christmas meant. Little hearts were… Continue reading
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