faith
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A Better Understanding of Sacrifice
When Easter was coming up, I had begun to give some thought to what it all meant. I wanted to look further than the traditional Friday focus on the cross, or the giving of eggs on Sunday. I was looking… Continue reading
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Storytime
Once upon a time, my husband emptied the kitchen bin. That was almost – but not quite – a miracle, because most of the time that task fell to me. Curiously though, once he had taken the bag of rubbish… Continue reading
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Divine Health
When our bodies aren’t working properly and we’re looking for healing, we read 1 Pet 2:24 and we tend to focus on the ‘were healed’ bit rather than the ‘by His wounds’ bit, which I think leaves us somehow trying… Continue reading
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Stupid Things Christians Say
Another peeve…. Now, I’ve warned you previously that I can be intolerant, and one of the things that irritates me are some of the stupid things I hear Christians say. Over the past few years, for example, I’ve noticed a… Continue reading
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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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Doctor stuff – Why is it so?
From my observations these days, when a Christian goes forward for healing prayer, it seems that they go with the desire of leaving the altar leaping and shouting for joy because they have been fully restored, as if by magic.… 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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Options & Expectations
The post explores the interplay between medical intervention and faith-based healing, suggesting that modern society’s reliance on medicine can diminish one’s ability to fully embrace divine healing. It argues that believers should shift their mindset from expecting sickness to realizing… 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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