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Miracles Still Happen!

An Extract from my book "In Search of Ophir" Peter Dodd was diagnosed with Leukaemia when he was 3 and given a 15% chance to make it! I was a Christian; the rest of the family weren’t. Pete got a fungal infection that spread throughout his body, was taken off his leukaemia treatment, and put into isolation. Drips that were supposed to last twelve hours only lasted six! Treatment was still experimental, but the choice was to have no treatment and die, or try and see what happened! There was also the chance he might go into organ failure! He became very ill and was dying; all he could move were his eyes. You could not touch him as he was too sore. It became a waiting game. Peter’s mum, Diane Dodd, saw the Easter convention was on at McChlery Assembly and the minister had a healing ministry. Diane went to church as a “last resort”. As she walked to the church, she was met by Yvonne Stegmann who led her to the Lord. Diane sat through the service then went with the minister ...

Christian leaders the only thing to be afraid of is fear, or is it?

PANTOPHOBIA . I come across many Christian Leaders who are afraid to talk about their weaknesses, things like depression or stress or marriage problems. This has prompted me in the past to blog about these things, giving advice where I can. But the other day I was challenged to talk about my own frailties. So here goes; I suffer from PANTOPHOBIA. There I have admitted it, boy, does that make me feel as though a heavy weight has been lifted from my shoulders. Now for my English friends PANTOPHOBIA does not mean I am afraid of Christmas pantomimes, nor for my American friends am I "acting out", No PANTOPHOBIA is much more serious. It means that I have an irrational fear of EVERYTHING. I fear that the world will come to an end through global climate change in a hundred years. I fear that Gay rights activists will gain power and ban heterosexual marriage in revenge for years of none recognition. I fear that politicians will finally listen to their electorates and g...