by Michael King | Mar 22, 2021 | Beliefs, Encouragement, Inner Life
I was chatting briefly with another nurse on the intermediate care unit today and she was telling me how she is retiring soon to take care of her elderly parents, and that while she feels she is doing the right thing, she is really afraid that she might be making...
by Michael King | Nov 18, 2020 | Resurrection and Immortality
The Bible has a lot to say on the subject of life and immortality—my favorite being 2 Timothy 1:10-11 in which Paul directly states that he has been given the gospel of life and immortality as a message from God to teach and preach. And yet, there is something about...
by Michael King | Nov 7, 2020 | Prayer, Prophecy and Revelation, Reflection
There is an important lesson in scripture on holding firm to the prophetic word even when other voices are telling us otherwise. It is one of the harder tests of prophetic maturity, and one that we all will have to be challenged on many times as we learn and grow in...
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 | Sep 16, 2020 | Reflection, Spirituality
At the beginning of 2019, I and the entire board of the Portland ministry we were on staff with resigned—all on the same day. There were a number of reasons behind it, but much of it ultimately all boiled down to a subject I want to discuss today: Manipulation and...
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...
