Health & Healing

  • Science Hints the Holy Spirit Is More Effective Than Antidepressant Drugs to Treat Anxiety

    Science Hints the Holy Spirit Is More Effective Than Antidepressant Drugs to Treat Anxiety

    Read Time: 4 Minutes 10 Seconds A first-of-its-kind clinical trial recently demonstrated that meditation is as effective as an antidepressant drug to treat people with anxiety disorders. Inadvertently, this study sparked questions about the impact of Christ-centered spirituality that is at a higher level than simply the practice of meditation. Since living life in the

  • Why Love Shouldn’t Upset Your Health Journey

    Why Love Shouldn’t Upset Your Health Journey

    What should we do when our loving husband brings us our favorite candy and we have committed to not eating sugar? As a Christian weight loss coach, I’ve heard from many wives who are afraid of hurting his feelings if she tells him she doesn’t want that any more. She’s afraid of rocking this love

  • Believe God’s Report: When the Medical and the Spiritual Come Together

    Believe God’s Report: When the Medical and the Spiritual Come Together

    Larry and I have always been determined to trust God and believe His promises. We have overcome many challenges over our years together as man and wife and as a ministry team. However, I will admit it, this “C” diagnosis was a whole new level of giant to overcome. On the day of our doctor

  • Why God Cares About Your Physical Health

    Why God Cares About Your Physical Health

    God doesn’t care if I am fat. He wants me to enjoy my life. He wants me to live, love and be happy. Food makes me happy so I’m just doing what He wants me to do. That was just an excuse and at its core it is untrue. God really doesn’t care about our outward

  • WATCH: Pastor Todd Smith and “The Revival of the Pulpit”

    WATCH: Pastor Todd Smith and “The Revival of the Pulpit”

    Read Time: 2 minutes 6 seconds The North Georgia revival has entered its fifth year with 30,000 people having been immersed in baptismal waters. “God has never asked us to grow His church…that’s something we shoulder and wear because that’s just the culture,” says Christ Fellowship Pastor Todd Smith. Smith says pastors nationwide have given

  • A Lame Excuse for Not Surrendering to the Holy Spirit

    A Lame Excuse for Not Surrendering to the Holy Spirit

    To say we have no voice or say in what happens in our lives is an excuse for not surrendering to the Holy Spirit. We do have a voice, but it means we are just living by every whim we have and not by God. Galatians 5:16 (TPT) tells us, “As you yield to the

  • Curt Landry: Using God’s Word to Pray for Healing

    Curt Landry: Using God’s Word to Pray for Healing

    Are there situations or circumstances that simply don’t sit right with you? Is there something in your soul that is unsettled when you see, hear or get around people or into certain situations? Though it can feel uneasy in your soul, these are actually areas that need God’s healing touch. They are opportunities presenting themselves

  • Resolving Unresolved Issues Within Your Marriage and Your Life

    Resolving Unresolved Issues Within Your Marriage and Your Life

    Have you ever had an issue or problem that you can’t seem to get over? No matter what you do and no matter how much you seem to pray, that thing that you have been struggling with seems to be ironclad at resisting any attempt of leaving. This was something I struggled with for many,

  • Why Am I So Afraid of Success?

    Why Am I So Afraid of Success?

    Many of us have a fear of success, which keeps us stuck. We are afraid of moving forward because we might succeed and then have to continue the hard work that we think success will take. We are afraid of what success might do to us and how it will change us. I have been

  • The Addiction that You Simply Won’t Want to Break

    The Addiction that You Simply Won’t Want to Break

    When I was living through the darkest and loneliest days of my life, I developed an addiction. I was in the throes of depression due to years of infertility and repeated miscarriages. I sent five babies to heaven—each between 12 and 20 weeks in utero. It was a time of non-stop grief, dashed hopes and raging

  • Don’t Make ‘Parties’ as an Excuse for Over-Indulging

    Don’t Make ‘Parties’ as an Excuse for Over-Indulging

    I love a party or any get together where there is food. How about you? However, it is a big excuse many use for not losing weight. I had this excuse. It went something like this, “I can’t lose weight because I want to eat at family gatherings, parties, church carry-in dinners and holidays. Here’s

  • How You Can Abandon Your Cravings and Surrender to the Holy Spirit

    How You Can Abandon Your Cravings and Surrender to the Holy Spirit

    What do you crave? Is it something God doesn’t want you to crave? Is it more important to you than God? If you want it just because you want it, you may be living by following your desires and cravings rather than the power of the Holy Spirit. Galatians 5:16, 18 (TPT) tells us, “As

  • Let These Simple Food Choices Improve Your Mental and Emotional Health

    Let These Simple Food Choices Improve Your Mental and Emotional Health

    The Bible shows us that mental health issues have been around since the beginning of mankind. For example, David struggled with depression. Today mental health problems have accelerated with the pressures of modern living, stress and poor food choices. Hippocrates said, “Let food be your medicine, and medicine be your food.” Dr. Bob DeMaria agrees.

  • Spirit-Filled Pastor: Change Your Life Before It Changes You

    Spirit-Filled Pastor: Change Your Life Before It Changes You

    We are at a crossroads: Obesity is an epidemic, plaguing the young as well as the old, reaching alarming levels in children. Diabetes is affecting millions, and cancer and heart disease are the number-one killers in America. Are there answers? Yes; but we must speak the truth in love. Change Your Life Before It Changes

  • Causes of Depression and What You Can Do About It

    Causes of Depression and What You Can Do About It

    In this timely discussion, Pastor Shane talks about depression and anxiety and the spiritual ramifications of each. Don’t give up — look up. There is hope! There are things you can do to minimize the effects of depression and anxiety. If you get a few minutes, check out this important interview. {eoa} Read articles like

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