Search Results: healing
Why Doesn’t God Heal When We Ask?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Faith, healing, Sickness, Spiritual Warfare, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Faith & Doubt, The Problem of Evil
If we are called to manifest what Jesus manifested and revolt against what Jesus revolted against, and Jesus carried out the kingdom through healing, then why doesn’t God heal those we pray for? One of my personal kingdom heroes is a Vietnamese lady named Dr. Huyen Tranberg. She is a…
New Testament Support for the Warfare Worldview
Category: Essays
Tags: Bible, Essay, New Testament, Spiritual Warfare, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
…the whole operation (Mark 3:27). This could only be done when “one stronger than he attacks him and overpowers him” and thus “takes away his armor in which he trusted” (Luke 11:22). This is what Jesus understood himself to be doing by his teachings, healings, exorcisms and especially by his…
VI Apologetics
…Miracles Debate (Associated University Press, 1981) 2 C. Brown, Miracles and the Critical Mind (Eerdmans, 1984) 2 L. Dossey, Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine (San Francisco, 1993) 2 C. Keener, Miracles, 2 Vols (BakerAcademic, 2011) 2 C. S. Lewis, Miracles (HarperOne, 2015) 1 D….
Do My Prayers Matter?
Category: General
Tags: Prayer
…Instead he would be exercising his moral responsibility and thereby contributing to the possibility of God doing what God most likely already wanted to do. Would God be arbitrary in responding to this prayer either by healing or by not healing this woman in the story? Or would it be…
Seeing is Believing Endorsements and Reviews
…Christ-centered. I believe it will not only clear away much misunderstanding, but inspire many to experience the healing freedom and deeper relationship with Jesus that comes through imaginative prayer.” –David A. Seamands, author of Healing for Damaged Emotions Reviews “Boyd, author of Letters from a Skeptic and God of the…
Why Did God Heal or Not?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Faith, healing, Sickness, Spiritual Warfare, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Faith & Doubt, The Problem of Evil
…justified calling David’s healing miracle. Now, in the interest of full disclosure, and to illustrate how arbitrary life sometimes this, I’m compelled to add the sad fact that three years after his miraculous healing, David’s brain cancer returned. And this time he wasn’t healed. I admit that this is theologically…
In Search of Healing During Advent
Category: General
Tags: Abuse, Advent, God With Us, healing, Incarnation, Mennonerds, The Femonite, The Jesus Event, Tyler Tully
…If you’re a person who struggles as Christmas approaches, we hope this post will call you to be present to the God who grieves with us and heals our wounds. From Tyler’s piece: Still, there is an expected healing of hope in the Seasonal air. The Incarnation reminds me, that…
To Bleed or Not to Bleed: Reflections on Animal Sacrifices
Category: General, Guest Contributor
…without any sacrifice or offering being presented. Ancient Judaism claimed that God punished individual and communal sin with sickness or disease (we see some of this in John 9 when Jesus’ disciples ask him who sinned that the man was born blind). It claimed that healing came through forgiveness and…
Jesus and those “Other People”
Category: General
Tags: Friends, healing, Kingdom, Love, Nicky Marshall, Prejudice
…if the Russians love their children too” It was a necessary correction for me as a young boy – Russians are people. Like me. There was no shortage of this in first century Palestine as Jesus spread his message that the Rule of God had come – bringing healing to…
The “Christus Victor” View of the Atonement
Category: Essays
Tags: Atonement, Church, Essay, Jesus, Spiritual Warfare
Topics: Christus Victor view of Atonement, Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict
…viceroys – humans – to their position of guardians of the earth (Gen. 1:26-28, cf. 2 Tim. 2:12; Rev. 5:10). Each one of Jesus’ many healings and deliverances were understood to diminish Satan’s hold on the world and to liberate people, to whatever degree, from his stronghold. (4) Peter succinctly…
God’s Church is Not “Pretty”
Category: General
Tags: Authenticity, Church, Community, Honesty, Love, Truth
Topics: The Church
…healing is hidden, and, as John Bradshaw once said, wounds that are concealed are wounds that cannot be healed. By contrast, kingdom communities are beautiful precisely because they’re willing to be ugly. They replicate the beauty of the love of the triune God who revealed his beauty by diving headlong…
God Is Working!
Category: General
…of actually getting life from the God of those beliefs. This is one of the reasons these Jews couldn’t see that God was present in Jesus Christ. All they could see was a man who didn’t follow the religious rules. For example, Jesus offended them by healing and feeding people…
V Theology
…Shall Make You Free (Orbis, 1990) 2 J. Andrew Kirk, Liberation Theology: An Evangelical View from the Third World (John Knox Press, 1979) 2 E. Milingo, The World In Between: Christian Healing and the Struggle for Spiritual Revival (Orbis, 1984) 2 S. E. Moreau, The World of the Spirits: A…
Faith, Healing & Modern Medicine
Category: General
Tags: healing, Kingdom, Mental Illness
…from their infirmities mistakenly disparage the role that doctors play in fighting these afflictions. These people mistakenly assume that relying on doctors to get well is evidence of a lack of faith in God’s healing power. Sometimes this wrong-headed view of faith can be fatal. My dad’s sister died of…
The God of the Here and Now
Category: General
Tags: Practicing the Presence of God, Prayer, time
Several years ago an acquaintance told me she and her husband were going to travel to Lakeland, FL, where a “healing revival” had purportedly broken out. When I asked them if they were going because they needed healing, they replied that they just wanted to witness “God doing stuff.” Even…
Where Psychology and Theology Meet
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, God's Character, Guilt, Love, Sin
Topics: Attributes and Character
…degrees, in developmental phases, as a kind of gradual healing therapy that allows us to face ourselves as fast as we can bear it, while God graciously bears our false beliefs about Him along the way to the degree that we need Him to. Jesus got at this relational principle…
Was Jesus Unloving Towards the Pharisees?
Category: General
Tags: Enemy Love, Jesus, Love
Topics: Enemy-Loving Non-Violence
…who know they need a physician are much closer to healing than those who imagine they do not (Mk 2:17). While Jesus could interact with those who on some level were aware of their sickness in a warm and healing way – which is why the worst of sinners wanted…
Suggested Further Readings for MYTH OF A CHRISTIAN RELIGION
Category: General
Tags: Books, Creation, Myth of a Christian Religion
…for Bonoeffer’s own community of believers living under Nazi rule. Boren, S. The Relational Way (Touch Publications, 2007). Most books I’ve read on small groups are pragmatic in focus and fail to provide the theological rational for their necessity. Not this one. Crabb, L. Connecting: Healing Ourselves and Our Relationships…
Jesus and the “Favored Nation”
Category: General
Tags: Israel, Jesus, Kingdom of God, Nationalism
Topics: Enemy-Loving Non-Violence
…injury, Jesus went on to remind his audience of the story of Elijah feeding and healing the son of the pagan widow in Sidon (vs. 25-26) and the remarkable story of Elijah healing the leprous military captain of the Syrian army, which occurred at a time when Israel and Syria…
Religion that Blinds Us to God
Category: General
Tags: Jesus, Relationships, Religion, Religious Idolatry
…Jesus Christ. All they could see was a man who didn’t follow the religious rules. For example, Jesus offended them by healing and feeding people on the Sabbath and by hanging out with people with scandalously sinful lifestyles. They couldn’t see the beautiful way this revealed a God who cares…