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Three Paths to Healing (One Is Bound to Work!)

July 15, 2016

HEALING (PHYSICAL-EMOTIONAL), MIND-BODY CONNECTION

Amazingly, there are three genuine paths to the healing of our bodies and these exactly correspond to the three parts of our nature: body, soul and spirit. The world around us focuses upon one area, that of physical healing, and one means for healing, that of doctors and medicine. Before I go any further, let me hasten to say that I love doctors and medicine! I’ve got no beef with them at all, nor am I advocating for any of the “alternative…

What Causes Addiction? (It’s Not a Chemical Hook!)

May 3, 2016

Healing Streams

ADDICTIONS, STRONGHOLDS TO OVERCOME

What? Substance abuse isn’t due to a chemical hook? You may have heard this all your life, but it isn’t true. There are four excellent reasons why it’s not and the first three of them are already known to most of us. Somehow, the facts don’t register like they should. Even the men in our yearlong recovery program typically come to us programmed (by culture) to believe that the substance itself was all-powerful. They should know better, they need to…

How Our Worst Things Become the Best (Thanks to God’s Promise of Redemption)

April 8, 2016

Healing Streams

BELIEVING THE TRUTH, KNOWING GOD

Through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead our Father displayed a power which goes beyond forgiving our sins and getting us safely to heaven. I have no desire to diminish these well-known works of the cross—they are stupendous sources of joy impossible to reduce. I do, however, want to draw your attention to an all-too-often overlooked and unclaimed power always available, ever at work…

Ignorance Is Not Bliss!

November 21, 2015

Healing Streams

BELIEVING THE TRUTH, INNER PEACE AND FREEDOM

The Lord says that His people are carried into captivity, even destroyed, for lack of knowledge. What we don’t know about this new life in Christ not only can keep us from entering into blessing, it also opens doors for the enemy to prey upon us. In the spiritual life ignorance is not bliss—it quickly becomes bondage! For a remedy Jesus invites us to seek truth. He says that if we will take pains to pursue a true knowledge of…