Tag: healing
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Certain People Gave Jesus Problems. How Not to Be One of Them.
by Dennis Gladden, By Green Pastures, ©2026 (Sep. 9, 2026) — Jesus didn’t have problems until He ran into certain people. I noticed this recently while scanning the gospel of Mark. Trouble indeed brewed early when a demon interrupted Him teaching in a synagogue, but Jesus commanded, “Be quiet, and come out of him!” The…
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Ground Zero. War Zone.
by Patra Minocha, Brave Hill Productions, ©2024 (Dec. 14, 2024) — Western North CarolinaSeptember-November 2024 ‘Godly Giving’ from people across the USA…Generous hearts blessing humanity in a very special way. Darkness storms in during times of tragedy, deep sorrow and trials,Seeking to devour the righteous… to condemn, conquer and defile. Homeless from Helene need your…
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How the “Burning Heart” Warms Us to the Truth
by Dennis Gladden, By Green Pastures, ©2024 (Jun. 8, 2024) — “Now it came to pass, as Jesus sat at the table with them, that He took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight. And they said…
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Praise God, He Still Heals Our Afflictions
by Bob Russell, ©2024 (May 16, 2024) — Is This a Test of my Faith? This is the 24th installment of the series I started in February 2015 about the massive stroke I suffered on August 19, 2014. I have had three dreams of total recovery, dreams that I believe were sent from Almighty God…
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Praise God, He Still Heals our Afflictions
by Bob Russell, ©2023 (Nov. 2, 2023) — [See previous chapters of this series here.] I started this series a couple of months after returning home from the nursing home I was in after the severe stroke I suffered on August 19, 2014. The series has been about my journey for just over nine years…
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Praise God, He Still Heals our Afflictions
by Bob Russell, ©2023 (May 20, 2023) — For those who have read my previous articles in this series much of this will be repeated information but there is significant new information included also. On August 19, 2014 I suffered a massive stroke, the kind people don’t survive, but I survived. The neurologist took one…
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Praise God He Still Heals Our Afflictions
by Bob Russell, ©2022 (Nov. 1, 2022) — On August 5, 2014 I had a complete physical examination. My doctor said I had the metabolism of a very healthy 40-year-old man and if I continued my workout program I could very easily live to be 150 years old. I was 180 pounds of solid muscle…
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Let Us Examine Our Ways: Step Four
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Sep. 14, 2021) — Do you really want to change? To be free? To grow? To improve your relationships with yourself, with others and with God? To start the process in earnest, you need to examine yourself systematically, so that, at last, you can leave the hurtful past behind. If you have…
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Praise God, He Still Heals Our Afflictions, Chapter 20
by Bob Russell, ©2021 (Aug. 27, 2021) — On Thursday, August 19, 2021, I observed the 7th anniversary of the severe stroke that has left me very disabled. In May 2016 I had a dream that I woke up totally healed from the effects of the stroke. On April 23 of this year I had…
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The First Step Towards Wholeness
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Jun. 16, 2021) — Step One: We admitted we were powerless over our addictions and compulsive behaviors, that our lives had become unmanageable. Romans 7:18: “I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot…
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Life Hurts, God Heals
by ProfDave, ©2921 (Feb. 24, 2021) — Life hurts. We start out being a pain to our mothers and end up being a pain to our kids. In between is just pain, mostly. The Indian mystics are right, suffering is the predominant reality of life. Happiness is an illusion(?). Life doesn’t add up. Solomon said…
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The Red Pen Syndrome
by ProfDave, ©2020 (Nov. 22, 2020) — “Speak softly and carry a red pen,” the English teacher used to say. “Judge not that ye be not judged” (Matthew 7:1) is the favorite verse of those who do not read their Bible. I used to resent that, but I have learned what Jesus meant under the…
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Praise God, He Still Heals Our Afflictions; I Am Living Proof
CHAPTER 17 by Bob Russell, ©2020 (Jun. 19, 2020) — I am now 5 years and 10 months into the worst experience of my life. The effects of the terrible stroke I suffered on August 19, 2014 are still with me. I am not going to rehash the whole story but want to point out…
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Praise God, He Still Heals Our Afflictions; I am Living Proof
CHAPTER 15 by Bob Russell, ©2020 (Apr. 23, 2020) — As I start this chapter it is April, 19, 2020 and I am 5 years, 8 months to the day into the stroke (August 19, 2014) and a few weeks away from 4 years since the dream I had that I would wake up one…
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Just Stand
“GOD BLESS ONE AND ALL” by Bob Russell, ©2020 (Jan. 1, 2020) — On Sunday, December 29, 2019, I attended the evening service at Lifechanger Church in Claremore, Oklahoma. We had a guest speaker that night, Pastor Don Couch, the pastor at Vision, the church I attend on Friday night in Broken Arrow. Pastor Don…
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Praise God He Still Heals our Afflictions
“I AM LIVING PROOF,” CHAPTER 14 by Bob Russell, ©2019 (Jan. 2, 2019) — On December 30 I attended the Sunday evening church service at Lifechanger Church in Claremore, Oklahoma. The message focused on moving forward with the reference from 2 Kings, Chapter 7. Pastor Ted Estes focused on a story about a Syrian army…
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Praise God He Still Heals our Afflictions
“I AM LIVING PROOF,” CHAPTER 12 by Bob Russell, ©2018 (Nov. 29, 2018) — I started this series on February 24, 2016, 18 months after suffering a stroke that the attending neurologist said should have killed me. His optimistic prognosis was that if I lived I would be paralyzed, never able to get out of…
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Political Correctness is Killing America
“SPITTING IN GOD’S FACE” by Bob Russell, ©2018 (Sep. 4, 2018) — It is August 29, 2018 at 8:50 p. m. as I start this article. I am watching an episode of the TV sitcom “Last Man Standing” and find it very timely in today’s politically correct disaster we call society. Lead character, Mike Baxter,…
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Praise God He Still Heals Our Afflictions
I AM LIVING PROOF, CHAPTER 11 by Bob Russell, ©2018 (Aug. 26, 2018) — The second Saturday of every month at Lifechanger Church in Claremore is Manna Ministry Saturday. We provide a hot meal and a box full of groceries to people in need. Between the meal and passing out groceries they receive a message…
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Praise God He Still Heals Our Afflictions
I AM LIVING PROOF, CHAPTER 9 by Bob Russell, ©2018 (Jul. 20, 2018) — I had originally thought, after writing the sixth installment of this series, that the next one would be the final one, written at the completion of my journey through the healing process after the massive stroke I suffered on August 19,…