Tag: Healing

  • From Struggle to Strength: Finding Faith in Healing

    From Struggle to Strength: Finding Faith in Healing

    The young man was standing outside a travel stop near the interstate selling handmade wooden crafts. I recognized he was from a local drug and alcohol rehab that often sets up outside the doors. His high and tight hair cut, chiseled physique, and khaki cargo pants tucked into combat boots said he was ex military,…

  • A Trip Down the Stairs

    A Trip Down the Stairs

    Heal me, Oh Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise Jeremiah 17:14 (NKJV) If you fall head-first down a flight of stairs, you’ll be in the hospital for a week and your friends will feel sorry for you. But take an emotional tumble, that…

  • Paws and Reflect (8): Buck to the Rescue!

    Paws and Reflect (8): Buck to the Rescue!

    The adventures of a dog who followed Jesus.

  • Missing the Farm

    Missing the Farm

    Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. 2 Corinthians 5:1 (NIV) Mrs. Alma looked out the window, kneading the afghan in her lap. Turning back to me, she said, wistfully, “I like it…

  • Paws & Reflect (5): A Surprising Question

    Paws & Reflect (5): A Surprising Question

    The adventures of a dog who followed Jesus.

  • Still Living to the Max

    Still Living to the Max

    I recently told the story of a beloved eight-year-old boxer named Max, who has been slowed by a lung tumor. The dog, on a heavy dose of pain meds, was pulled in a wagon to watch his five-year-old human brother’s football practice. But something told Max’s mom, Margaret, that his medication might be making him…