
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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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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God really is good! And no, He is not relatively good compared to something else. He is the standard by which all other goodness should and will be compared.
Paul Manwaring • Kisses From a Good God: A Journey Through Cancer
the enemy was trying to attach my identity to my crisis.
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
your need for the fruit of the Spirit only really comes to the forefront when you live in community.
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
The notion of unpreparedness is a manifestation of a culture that addresses crises outside of relationship with a good God.
Paul Manwaring • Kisses From a Good God: A Journey Through Cancer
the Bride of Christ should be the greatest organization on the planet. There should be people lined up, coming to get counsel and hear wisdom and be part of the Bride of Christ.