Hope
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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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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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No One Gets Out Alive
This is the second post in my Life, Death & Healing series. You can find the first one here if you missed it. We live in a world where for most people, getting sick or feeling unwell means a trip… 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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Ah, to be in the bush!
Stepping from the noise of my vehicle and the Creedence Clearwater Revival tune that had been playing, I am greeted by the noisy quiet of the bush; by birdsong and the sound of the breeze as it plays through the… Continue reading
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Fear & Conditioning
Once upon a time…. When I relocated to attend Bible College in Queensland, I spent most of my first year there boarding with an adult family. The house we lived in was on a large, open piece of land on… Continue reading
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Agency & Authority
When my children were small, there was never any question about who was in charge. I was the boss of them because I was their parent, and my right to exercise parental authority was unquestioned because we all knew I… Continue reading
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Exodus
Looking from the inside Something said by the character Atticus Finch in the book ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ has always stayed with me since reading it as a teenager. He said: “You never really understand a person until you consider… Continue reading
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