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...
by Michael King | Jul 8, 2020 | Faith, Reflection
As I was standing in the medication room waiting for another nurse to finish removing patient medications, we began to chat briefly about how the night had been going well. I even dared to say the “Q” word—Quiet. The other nurse immediately said...
by Michael King | Jul 1, 2020 | Encouragement, Fragments, Alters, Parts, and DID, Physical And Emotional Healing, Reflection
In the past year I have been doing a lot of inner healing, working primarily with soul fragmentation (An Introduction to Soul Fragmentation is here), and the process been full of ups and downs—with a lot of downs. While the journey has been difficult, I have begun to...
by Michael King | Jun 25, 2020 | Beliefs, Faith, Signs Wonders & Miracles
I grew up in the Episcopal Church (my dad is an Episcopal priest), and was introduced to the Charismatic as a whole when I was about 20 years old and in college. Early on, I began a wild pursuit of the miraculous, and during this time I heard lots of different...
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...
