This critique helps provide a pastoral response to Pentecostal ministers who wish to accommodate Bonhoeffer's remark in circumstances that are commonly triumphalistic in nature, where sickness is often spoken against. I will argue for an alternative and liberative approach, a position that will ...
Considering this mother’s deep piety, do you think it strange that she saw God’s hand in everything that befell her, and ascribed praise to him for it all? After the return of the family to their home in Chicago the father became very ill. His sickness was so severe and so long ...
16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective." (James 5:15c-16)It was common when someone was sick to suppose that he had committed some sin that caused the sickness. That is ...
Be praised, my Lord, for those who forgive for love of you; and for those who bear sickness and weakness in peace and patience - you will grant them a crown. Be praised, my Lord, for our Sister Death, whom we must all face. I praise and bless you, Lord, and I give thanks to ...