While arriving at a hospital with a patient, I noticed a nurse who was limping down the hallway with an immobilizer on her foot. As we passed in the hallway, I told her I wanted to have a word with her after we dropped off our patient. After we got our patient settled in into…
Read MoreMy wife drives me to work every day. We have a morning routine that involves snooze alarms, two types of coffee and an ingenious method of getting hot water from our garage to our bathroom. Yesterday morning, we left the house at 5:43 am. It was a little later than I like to leave, but…
Read MoreToday’s guest blogger is….MY WIFE.This is a message my wife wrote about about our trip to Australia in September of 2012. She discusses the problems she wrestled with and the ways in which God showed her His faithfulness. My husband, Praying Medic, the author of this blog, and I had many wonderful experiences on our ministry trip…
Read MoreWhen traveling for pleasure, we generally eat whatever pleases us. One of the perils of traveling for ministry is found in the command of Jesus to remain in the home where you find a person of peace and eat what they put before you. (See Luke 10:6-7) This command wouldn’t bother me so much were…
Read MoreThis is part of a series written in September of 2012 during our trip to Australia to teach on healing. The economic collapse of 2008 left many of us with some bitterness toward the banking industry. Bankers themselves have received a lot of criticism since then. My trip to Australia put me in close contact with one…
Read MoreWe attended our last meeting in Darra, Australia on Tuesday. There’s been a lot of interest in dreams, so before leaving, we spent about an hour discussing dream interpretation with the group. A number of people had been physically healed this week after a spirit had been cast out, so we taught a bit more…
Read MoreAs we handed out food and made coffee, I saw a man approaching. He had a noticeable limp. I introduced myself and asked his name. He goes by the name of Martin. I asked about the limp. He said he has a torn cruciate ligament, which will require surgery. I asked if he’d received prayer…
Read MoreBefore we left for Australia, a friend gave us a prophetic word suggesting that God wanted to do things we’d never seen before. On Thursday night, we made sandwiches, pies and sausage rolls and loaded the van for a night on the streets with the less fortunate citizens of Brisbane. We generally stop at three…
Read MoreFor 19 years, the people at AccessChurch have been sending teams into the streets of Brisbane to minister to those who are less fortunate. The teams visit hostels, half-way homes, and other locations where the poor and mentally ill live. We arrived and went to work with the crew making sandwiches, heating up meat pies…
Read MoreTimothy sat hunched over in a wheelchair at the entrance to the prison hospital. Wrapped in a white blanket, shivering, pale and emaciated, the long-awaited day had finally arrived. He was going home. The state prison in Florence sits like an old fortress atop a hill in the middle of the Sonoran desert. Outside the…
Read MoreKari was my partner for the next 8 hours. My regular partner wasn’t able to work, so Kari filled in. We had a slow day – just two transports. That gave us time to talk.Kari told me about her life. She’s interested in archaeology and earned a Master’s degree then began working on her PhD….
Read MoreOne of the more common problems with being bed confined is the prevalence of decubitus ulcers – more commonly known as “bed sores”. Just a short time spent in the same position puts pressure on tissues of the body. The pressure reduces blood flow. Reduced blood flow impedes the exchange of oxygen, nutrients and removal…
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