
Kisses From a Good God: A Journey Through Cancer

If we believe that God sent our diseases, then we believe we are being punished, causing us to live in shame—hiding our experience in the dark and refusing to expose it to the light. But if light can shine on the false belief that God causes disease, then judgment will be released, the judgment that reveals His goodness. In this way, the tables wil
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the enemy was trying to attach my identity to my crisis.
Paul Manwaring • Kisses From a Good God: A Journey Through Cancer
Shame is destroyed by authenticity and love.
Paul Manwaring • Kisses From a Good God: A Journey Through Cancer
He will judge nations on the basis of whether or not they have fed the hungry, clothed the naked, given water to the thirsty, and visited the prisoners and the sick.
Paul Manwaring • Kisses From a Good God: A Journey Through Cancer
After they ate the fruit of the tree, however, they entered a world of comparison between good and evil. From that moment in time, the lines began to blur, and the perspective of the viewer began to alter the concept of what is and isn’t good or evil. Man began life made in His image, but the process of the fall accelerated to a perpetual state of
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the purpose of heaven’s government is to create society and family.
Paul Manwaring • Kisses From a Good God: A Journey Through Cancer
the spirit of resignation is a pernicious one. It invades so much of life, causes us to accept what should be challenged, and reduces us to victims instead of being more than conquerors.
Paul Manwaring • Kisses From a Good God: A Journey Through Cancer
“You may be the only Jesus someone encounters today.”
Paul Manwaring • Kisses From a Good God: A Journey Through Cancer
Shame has allowed the human race to hide from God since Adam. It has created false and temporary sanctuaries built on lies.