by Michael King | Sep 30, 2020 | Angels Demons and Deliverance, Beliefs, Inner Life, Reflection, Spirituality, Supernatural, Teachings
There is little I find more disheartening than when talking to people who should be mature believers but who are somehow still very much asleep to the spiritual realities around us. A recent conversation with a friend highlighted this to me. We were talking about some...
by Michael King | Aug 27, 2020 | Faith, Inner Life, Physical And Emotional Healing
One of the major weaknesses of the Church as a whole is its lack of focus on emotional health. In fact, the Church often ends up on weirdly unhealthy ends of the spectrum. One example is attributing all mental illness to demons and ignoring other legitimate organic...
by Michael King | Jun 18, 2020 | Inner Life, Reflection, Spiritual Laws, The Goodness of God
There is a common view in the Body of Christ that while God didn’t cause Job’s afflictions directly, He allowed them by not stepping in and stopping the attacks. While the little we see of the heavenly meeting-room scene in Job 1 might suggest that God did exactly...
by Michael King | Apr 2, 2020 | Beliefs, Inner Life, Spiritual Laws, Teachings, The Goodness of God
Some people struggle with understanding why God “lets” bad things happen. The “why didn’t God stop it” question has to do with a lack of understanding about sovereignty and God being in control. If God was “in control” like many say, then God is profoundly evil. It...
by Michael King | Feb 26, 2020 | Encouragement, Inner Life
One of the things that hit me pretty hard in the past few weeks is that we all have times when we feel like the world is crashing around us. It’s honestly quite hard when that happens, and it is even harder when we feel all alone in the process. Sometimes calling a...
by Michael King | Feb 12, 2020 | Faith, Inner Life, Reflection
For those who have been following along for a bit, you know that we have packed our house in Portland and are moving to the Houston area of Texas. The process began in the first quarter of last year, but the past ten months have consisted of her making a bunch of...
