*Please note there is one correction - This is Shell, Mark's wife. The story that Mark tells about the pastor's luncheon left out an important detail. There was one couple that stood by us and were sitting with us at that luncheon. We honor our pastor friends Richard and Margaret Graham who befriended [...]
Here is my story. Enjoy and let me know what you think. Here is what I know. As far as everyone around me was concerned I was too far gone to ever become a Christian. As far as I was concerned, I was too far gone to become a Christian, even when [...]
At the last evening of our book discussion group, I led a Scripture meditation of the paralytic being lowered down through the roof to Jesus. Scripture meditation is patiently thinking about the Scripture passage in light of God's Holy Spirit. Our part is slowing down and listening. Richard Foster (author of many books including Celebration [...]
This is a serious problem and one that Shell and I have coped with personally during her 17 year illness. The "faith" community has taken the role of faith in healing prayer and exaggerated its importance to the point where it is treated as a magic formula. Just generate enough faith and God HAS TO heal [...]
This question came to me from an honest, earnest seeker. I know God can heal me, but I don't know if He will. He hasn't healed my back. I've wondered if he's doing this because he wants me to learn something from this- to identify with the sufferings of Christ in some way- or to [...]
The argument goes something like this - isn't death often a natural result of sickness. We get old and sick and then we die. If God has "ordained" death then why oppose sickness? Death was never God's Plan for man. It entered human history because of the sin of rebellion. Man stepped out from under [...]
Faith is a big part of healing but it isn’t the only factor. When it is the “cause” of the healing it is most often found in the faith of family and friends. This means that pastorally we should never place the burden for the lack of healing upon the sick person, BUT there is [...]
The timing of a healing is often as strategic to God's plan as the healing itself. As I see it, our job is to pray and God's job is to heal. The spiritual gifts of healing and miracles are not a credit card God gives us on one occasion and then says go out and [...]
