Answering the Call to Heal

Reading Scripture in Context

CT PASTORS

5 Passages Your Pastor Wishes You'd Stop Taking Out of Context
How we get them wrong and what church leaders can do about it.
Kyle Rohane
Chris Maxwell, director of spiritual life and campus pastor at Emmanuel College in Franklin Springs, Georgia, recalls a troubling episode during his pastoral tenure in Orlando: "In March 1996 I almost died of encephalitis. A group of people came to visit me and read Matthew 77:17–18: 'Every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.' For them, admitting I had brain damage and needed medicine was lack of faith. This was the reason I became sick and wasn't being healed. I told them, 'If that caused my sickness I would've been sick long before.'" continue reading >>

Mid-City Christian: "What is Street Corner Care"?

Mid-City Christian: "What is Street Corner Care"?

Street Corner Care Recently we met with and navigated 9 Ladle guests to get appropriate medical treatment through Street Corner Care.  We are thankful for this new ministry of First Presbyterian Church!  But many have asked us, "What is Street Corner Care"?  Street Corner Care aims to increase access to healthcare for our local urban poor and homeless by connecting them with volunteer doctors, nurses, psychologists, and social workers and giving them space to talk about their health conditions.  The goal is to decrease barriers to care and increase the depth of our relationships with the homeless community.  This ministry meets on the courtyard during Ladle twice monthly and assists our guests with physical, psychological, and spiritual issues.  We are recruiting doctors, nurses, and social workers!  Please email john.savidge@fpcsd.org for more information.

2017 OSL NA Healing Conference

‘breathprints’ of multiple diseases

Nanoarray sniffs out and distinguishes ‘breathprints’ of multiple diseases

December 23, 2016

An international team of 63 scientists in 14 clinical departments have identified a unique “breathprint” for 17 diseases with 86% accuracy and have designed a noninvasive, inexpensive, and miniaturized portable device that screens breath samples to classify and diagnose several types of diseases, they report in an open-access paper in the journal ACS Nano. As far … more…

Method discovered to remove damaging amyloid plaques found in Alzheimer’s disease

December 23, 2016

German scientists have discovered a strategy for removing amyloid plaques — newly forming clumps in a brain with Alzheimer’s disease that are created by misfolded proteins that clump together and damage nerve cells. The scientists from the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) in Munich and the Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) Munich took aged microglia cells … more…

Sick and Dying in Small-town America

Unnatural Causes | Sick and Dying in Small-town America

Heavy drinking has been normalized for women, and it’s killing them in record numbers

Experts say alcohol ads and social media postings represent a profound cultural shift: Women in America are drinking far more, and far more frequently, than their mothers or grandmothers did.

By Kimberly Kindy and Dan Keating  •  Read more »