Posts Tagged "healing"

The white metal sign looked so lonely, its faded yellow trim standing out in a field of brittle grass and flowing weeds. Once upon a time it had been an important warning marker to approaching boats.  At some point in the past it had served a purpose, had helped travelers avoid danger by not letting them float too close to the jetty that would likely bring their boat to a bitter end. But that was a long time ago. Now the sign was abandoned and irrelevant.  The world had moved on, leaving only echoes and memory of a past when the sign served a purpose.  To pay attention to it now would just be silly, because the danger of which it warned had long since passed. Sometimes we live our lives like that. Once upon a time we set up walls and gates to protect our...

As a pastor, I often get questions of a more theological nature. Thursdays are the day I like to post some on the blog. Enjoy! —Pastor Phillip The other day  I got a text message from a friend: "I'm reading James 5:16, which says, 'Confess your sins to each other so that you may be healed.' Why wasn't it good enough to confess to my Lord, and (before we got married) to my husband? I used to boast to a Catholic friend in college that I could pray directly to God and didn't need to go through a priest because when the curtain was torn at Jesus' death, we were given access to the Holy of Holies ourselves." What a great question!  Let’s look at the passage in context. Is anyone among you sick?  Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them...

I subscribe to an excellent free resource from an organization called Koinonia House, the ministry of Bible teacher Chuck Missler.  It’s called “K-House eNews” and it’s a weekly e-mail update that includes brief news highlights from around the world and medium-sized articles on Scripture and life.  If you’re interested, you can subscribe here. The past two issues have featured an EXCELLENT series on “Faith and Miracles” that blessed me very much, so I thought I’d share it here.  There are six articles, each about a page-and-a-half long. Enjoy! — Pastor Phillip Faith and Miracles: a six-part series of articles from Koinonia House Part I: Faith in What? “Have faith,” people will often say when...

Why does Jesus keep breaking the rules?

Jesus heals by faith, but He's creative in the way He does it...