What Now?

Fall Retreat has come and gone.  We prepare for months and now it is finished, or is it.  Today I was pondering this fact, the decorations were excellent, the speakers were superb, the food was delicious, and the altar time was phenomenal.  I...

Fasting brings results

Fasting, a word that most people don’t like to hear, let alone actually do. I still remember when my pastor announced right before the New Year that our church would be participating in a corporate fast. He asked the entire church to spend time in fasting and...

The Healing Power of Aloe Vera

A little over a decade ago, products began to spring up on grocers’ shelves advertising, “Now includes aloe vera”. It became a kind of “branding shorthand” to tell the consumer that this product would be more gentle on the skin; some may have even thought that it...

The Health Benefits of Gratitude

The German theologian, Meister Eckhart, once said, “If the only prayer you said in your whole life was ‘thank you’, that would suffice.” Dr. John Demartini has said that the most powerful prayer is not a prayer of “I need a change in…” but a prayer of “thankfulness...