When Healing Doesn't Happen

What Comes After Healing?

For refugees encountering God’s comfort, healing is only the beginning of redemption.

How Bible literacy classes could help heal our bitter divisions

Any good teacher of history knows that you don’t just stick with the textbook.<br>To really understand...

Why Repeating Healing Prayers Releases MORE of God’s Healing Power

After my heart surgery I prayed numerous times for healing of my heart. I used the prayer approach Inner Healing for an Organ. Every time I did this prayer exercise, I felt the healing power and presence of the Holy Spirit moving upon me. This was experienced as a manifestation of shaking which I believe to be my body's reaction to the Holy Spirit’s healing presence and power.

What Does the Bible Say about Sickness and Healing?

God cares about our spiritual life and our physical life. He created the human body, and he is pleased when we enjoy health and vigor. But in this world our bodies endure sickness, pain, decay. Someti

How To Heal From Purity Culture Without Rebounding Into Worse

Humans have the propensity to jump from idol to idol, but lapsed Christians in the process of healing should recognize the path forward is through Christ.

Trauma survivors are in your congregation. How will you help them heal?

Christy Gunter Sim, a trauma expert and domestic violence survivor, offers case studies for church leaders.

How do we create a space of healing at church for victims of sexual abuse?

Over one in three women and nearly one in four men have experienced sexual assault at some point in their lives, according to the CDC, and about one in four girls and one in 13 boys experience sexual abuse at some point in childhood. The statistics are staggering, but we may feel paralyzed by our inexperience and unfamiliarity with the topic.

How Psalm Isadora Healed From Childhood Sexual Abuse To Become A Tantra Expert

How one woman learned to take her life back after a childhood of abuse.

How God Heals a Nation

When you pray for a spiritual awakening, you’re praying for something God wants to send.

How can we speak the truth in love?

Building our lives around divine love will give our words the power to heal, to deliver and to save.

Why Doesn’t God Heal People We Love?

It’s not that Jesus did not care about the cancer-ridden or the paraplegics, it’s just that their illnesses were not His main focus: the gospel was.

Why we need purgatory

Pastoral care re-imagined in light of purgatory can bring our world much needed healing and communion.

3 Unusual Examples of God’s Healing Power

In the Bible, God’s healing power occurs through a dead man’s bones, a shadow, and clothing. Is God still in the business of healing people?

Whatever happened to decency?

“Whatever happened to . . .” books abound! “Whatever happened to faith?” “Whatever happened to truth?” “Whatever happened to justice?”&amp;nb…

It’s Not What We Say But What We See That Heals

The task of the healthy is to be willing to see the same wholeness in those who aren't, to help them understand that they are needed and wanted and complete. A documentary film helps one man ponder how Jesus might frame our understanding of our potential role in modern-day healing.

Whatever Happened to Communion & Baptism?

Whatever Happened to Worship?

Christian churches have come to the dangerous time predicted long ago. It is a time when we can pat one another on the back, congratulate ourselves, and join in the glad refrain. We are rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing! It certainly is true that hardly anything is missing from our churches these