Joni Eareckson Tada"s A Place of Healing Ch 1

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Joni Eareckson Tada’s A Place of Healing Ch 1 –Report From The Front Lines

If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes. – Corrie ten Boom

This is no time to write a book.

But I have to try.

It won’t be easy. It may not be wise. Nevertheless, if you are reading these words, it has been accomplished, and the book has been published. God be thanked!

So mark it here. I am taking on a task that in–the–no book writers wouldn’t attempt, and setting myself to complete an assignment that military historians would never dream of undertaking. I am writing in the midst of my experience, in the violence of a firefight, in the crush of circumstances, and in the vice grip of unrelenting pain. I am recording my combat- zone observations before the smoke is cleared, before the shells have stopped falling, before the guns have gone silent, before the long grass and wildflowers have grown over the scars of war.

And I am writing with greater urgency. My life is changing, and I want to speak to these issues of suffering in the believer’s life – and yes, to God’s undeniable healing power – while I still can. Incessant pain, as those who lived in its grip can attest, makes it very difficult to think, work, relate, plan, write, and – as I recently discovered – take on a public–speaking opportunity.

Not long ago I was invited to speak to a class at Biola University here in Los Angeles, California. I’d been asked to address Dr. Kathy McReynold’s class on “A Theology of Suffering and Disability,” a course designed by Biola and our Christian Institute on Disability here at the Joni and Friends international Disability Center. Dr. McReynolds had asked me to come and lecture her 65 students on how God redeems suffering. And some of those students, she had told me, had deeper questions than that.

The class met in one of those classrooms in the older part of campus that has no windows – and precious little ventilation. The professor had placed a fan near one of the doors, which I appreciated. Still, without windows and on a warm day in Southern California, the room immediately seemed hot and close

Joni Eareckson Tada’s A Place of Healing Ch 1 –Report From The Front Lines

 

 

Joni Eareckson Tada"s A Place of Healing Ch 1

Left Behind: Soul Harvest. Chapter 1

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Left Behind: Soul Harvest. Chapter 1

God’s worldwide earthquake predicted in the book of Revelation has struck the planet. Millions die. Rayford’s friend flies a helicopter on top of Carpathia’s luxurious building in New Babylon so that Rayford can flee. But Carpathia, the Antichrist, pushes his way into the helicopter too and slams the door shut, leaving all of his friends and employees to be killed as the building collapses. Rayford, who has been Carpathia’s pilot because the Lord has ordered him to be, is furious. When they land in Baghdad, Rayford shoves Carpathian out of the copter and then shoves him again. He walks away in desperation to find his wife, Amanda, and his friend Hattie Durham, knowing full well that both may have also been killed during the earthquake. Meanwhile, in Chicago, New Hope Village Church has been reduced to rubble and Loretta, the secretary at New Hope has been killed. …Don’t miss the first chapter of Ray reading Soul Harvest: The World Takes Sides, which he will be reading right now.

Rayford Steele wore the uniform of the enemy of his soul, and he hated himself for it. He strode through Iraqi sand toward Baghdad Airport in his dress blues and was struck by the incongruity of it all.

From across the parched plain he heard the wails and screams of hundreds he wouldn’t begin to be able to help. Any prayer of finding his wife alive depended on how quickly he could get to her. But there was no quick here. Only sand. And what about Chloe and buck in the States? And Tsion?

Desperate, frantic, mad with frustration, he ripped off his natty waistcoat with its yellow braid, heavy epaulettes, and arm patches that identified a senior officer of the Global Community. Rayford did not take the time to unfasten the solid-gold buttons but sent them popping across the desert floor. He let the tailored jacket slide from his shoulders and clutched the collar in his fists. Three, four, five times he raised the garment over his head and slammed it to the ground. Dust billowed and sand kicked up over his patent leather shoes.

Rayford considered abandoning all vestiges of his connection to Nicolae Carpathia’s regime, but his attention was drawn again to the luxuriously appointed arm patches. He tore at them, intending to rip them free, as if busting himself from his own rank in the service of the Antichrist. But the craftsmanship allowed not even a fingernail between the stitches, and Rayford slammed the coat to the ground one more time. He stepped and booted it like an extra point, finally aware of what had made it heavier. His phone was in the pocket.

Left Behind: Soul Harvest. Chapter 1

Left Behind: Soul Harvest. Chapter 1

Take Time With God #85 – It doesn"t matter what you"ve done

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Take Time With God #85 – It doesn’t matter what you’ve done

Philippians 3:7-16 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

⁷ But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. ⁸ More than that, I count all things to be loss ^[a]in view of the surpassing value of ^[b]knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, ^[c]for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, ⁹ and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, ¹⁰ that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and ^[d]the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; ^11 [e]in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

¹² Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on ^[f]so that I may lay hold of that ^[g]for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. ¹³ Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to whatlies ahead, ¹⁴ I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Let us therefore, as many as are ^[h]perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you; ¹⁶ however, let us keep ^[i]living by that same standard to which we have attained.

Footnotes:

1. Philippians 3:8 Lit because of


2. Philippians 3:8 Lit the knowledge of


3. Philippians 3:8 Lit because of


4. Philippians 3:10 Or participation in


5. Philippians 3:11 Lit if somehow


6. Philippians 3:12 Lit if I may even


7. Philippians 3:12 Or because also


8. Philippians 3:15 Or mature


9. Philippians 3:16 Lit following in line

Take Time With God #85 – It doesn’t matter what you’ve done

Take Time With God #85 – It doesn"t matter what you"ve done

The Problem With Suffering And The Goodness Of God- Ravi Zacharias

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Imagine the assignment of speaking to the doctors, nurses, and patients at Johns Hopkins University, the foremost University in America for training in the medical field. That was Ravi Zacharias’s assignment. And the subject they gave him to speak on was “The Problem With Suffering And The Goodness Of God”. Only Ravi could answer the questions so profoundly and yet speak in a way that is so easily understandable.

Why does God allow nuclear warfare to wipe out innocent people? Why does He allow cancer, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s, and a plethora of other dreadful life–debilitating and life-taking sicknesses? Why would He allow plagues that wipe out millions of people? Doesn’t God care?

Isn’t Christ wanting to stop all sickness and disease as He did while he was ministering on Earth? And why on Earth would he allow nuclear bombs and weapons of mass destruction? Why would He allow a horror filled final tribulation of seven years? Does our God really love us? Is he really a good God? Does God really love you? Watch Ravi speak and give you God’s answers for all these things and much much more. –Ray

The Problem With Suffering And The Goodness Of God

The Problem With Suffering And The Goodness Of God- Ravi Zacharias