A few years ago, Prince Charles (pictured above, with a cheeky-looking Queen) revealed that he talks to trees and hugs them. Michael Jackson, another famous person who, like Charles, was raised in a famous, performance-oriented family, had his own eccentricities. Among his were sleeping with kids, and he admitted having a ‘Peter Pan Complex’ of [...]
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God can only heal what He’s given
Posted in Abuse, Counselling, Father Heart of God, Healing and Restoration, Redeemed Sexuality, Sexuality on 29 October, 2011 (Saturday) | Leave a Comment »
What addiction looks like
Posted in Counselling, Deliverance & Renunication, Healing and Restoration, Redeemed Sexuality, Relationships, Sexuality on 12 October, 2011 (Wednesday) | Leave a Comment »
“‘People who believe in God’, [one non-Christian] said with a derisive smirk, ‘are people who can’t get through life without a crutch’. ‘Oh’, I said. ’What’s your crutch then? What do you need to keep you going? Recognition? Admiration? Success? A-passes? Got to have a challenge to keep you stimulated? Sex? Bit of porn perhaps? [...]
Sexy stuff on ‘prawnography’
Posted in Counselling, Healing and Restoration, Sexuality on 24 August, 2011 (Wednesday) | Leave a Comment »
Stuck in porn addiction and keep drinking from the toilet, proverbially speaking? Then have a read of Porn Again. The good news is that the Bible has lots of positive things to say about sex, as the vivid book Song of Solomon shows. A terrific sermon series on this is here (and yes, vivid images of [...]
Shock! Horror!
Posted in Counselling, Fun Stuff, Sexuality on 18 July, 2011 (Monday) | Leave a Comment »
Shock! Horror! People who are intelligent and deep thinkers actually think the Bible is trustworthy! Good heavens, strike a light. Whatever will happen next? Well, that’s the reason why this Dutchman has decided to built a real-life replica of Noah’s arc with plastic animal models inside as a way of brining the Bible to life and [...]
Guilt, Legalism, and Setting Captives ‘Free’
Posted in Counselling, Deliverance & Renunication, Healing and Restoration on 10 July, 2011 (Sunday) | Leave a Comment »
Since the beginning of last month, I’ve been the pastoral worker of Liberty ministries and over the last few years I’ve been on a serious journey of healing in Christ. As I find my sexuality and relational brokenness being healed- and as I see it being healed in others- I’ve found that dry, crude theological/doctrinal [...]
Healing from puzzles and Lego
Posted in Abuse, Counselling, Healing and Restoration on 29 May, 2011 (Sunday) | Leave a Comment »
When I was a kid, I absolutely loved putting together puzzles, jigsaws, and making Lego buildings. I still do: I still buy them and do them by myself, with my wife, and with my 3 year-old. We have jigsaws of Veggie Tales, Dora the Explorer, to landscapes of Australia and images of puppies and [...]
Anger can lead to healing
Posted in Abuse, Anger, Counselling, Grief, Healing and Restoration on 25 May, 2011 (Wednesday) | Leave a Comment »
One of the most well-known songs during the 1980s – 90s was a tune called “I’ll Stand By You” by Pretenders in their album Last of the Independents. It’s easy to see why it was so famed: it sang about the profound emotion of anger and gave it licence and permission. It doesn’t do that [...]
Privilege of trust
Posted in Abuse, Counselling, Healing and Restoration, Music: Worship on 9 April, 2011 (Saturday) | Leave a Comment »
I consider myself so privileged to be able to other people’s pain. I feel like I can reflect the Father Heart of God and the tender love of Jesus when I listen to it; and far from judging and being sickened by those who share their pain, I feel their pain deep inside my heart… It breaks my heart too, just as it does inside the Father Heart of God … I find, oddly enough, that God uses it for both the one I’m ministering too and also for me: I too was abused, and as I listen to others’ stories and grieve for them, I too grieve for my own losses. I believe too that God grieves for His losses too for people like me who are the unhealed part of Himself. He grieves for the losses of innocence, the loss of souls, loss of dignity, loss of love, loss of purity, loss of justice, loss of childhood… When these heart-dead children become adults, they often end up doing the most degrading, revolting, dangerous things to their bodies and it breaks God’s heart, too. The poison of woundedness poisons hearts so much that often people live in anger, unable to have deep, satisfying relationships with God and others, and they absolutely loathe themselves with a passion. Even as I’m writing this now, I’m stirred emotionally to the point that I want to cry.
Healing is ‘Abstract’
Posted in Abuse, Church, Counselling, Healing and Restoration, My Ministry (God's ministry through me) on 6 April, 2011 (Wednesday) | 3 Comments »
A couple of days ago, I was engaged in a discussion on my Facebook with a non-Christian who was very steadfast in his conviction that healing is not a part of Christianity. Being a non-Christian, I could see why he couldn’t understand the connection between Christ and healing. The Biblical evidence for Jesus as Healer [...]
Apple ban on “ex-’gay’” application
Posted in Counselling, Healing and Restoration, Sexuality, Society on 24 March, 2011 (Thursday) | 1 Comment »
(Jesus healing a man at Bethesda) I came across an interesting story today about how Apple has banned the application of a so-called “ex-’gay’” ministry in the US which promises to ‘cure’ gay people of homosexuality. I think that the ban itself is moving into very dangerous territory as questions of freedom of expression and association; [...]
