Welcome to the healing workshop
When I started to write these short talks I had Prison Ministry in mind and the use of Christian Radio to reach both serving and released prisoners. However, I very soon realised that much of the content turned out to be relevant to everybody: not just prisoners.
Yes, most of the talks do focus upon the many problems that prisoners face in their everyday lives but we each need to realise that we are all also are serving time as prisoners within ourselves.
Every one of us, to use a well used expression from the transport business, have become ‘Damaged Goods’; some more than others. What I mean by this is that during our early years we have each been damaged within ourselves to some degree or other due to our childhood circumstances.
We have each been moulded by the bad and good experiences we have lived through, by the disappointments we have faced and wrong choices that we’ve made.
So, as well as needing God’s forgiveness, each of us also needs deliverance and healing from who we have become. But we can’t fix ourselves, that would be like asking a broken computer to fix itself.
However, the Good News is that ‘Damaged Goods’ (however bad) can be repaired by the greatest healer of all, Jesus. Such healing comes from learning new truths, not only about Jesus, but also about ourselves. Truths that perhaps you reader have never heard before and yet could well help you on your journey through this life.
St Paul wrote in his letter to the Christians who lived in Rome at that time - ‘Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind’ - Romans Chapter 12 verse 2 (NIV Bible)
Having realised that some of the ‘talks’ tackle the problem of why some people, often due to past bad experiences, find it difficult to even consider looking at the Good News of the Gospel. Examples are ‘Unheathy Shame’ and ‘The Mystery of Suffering (2008 version)’ I have therefore, for the want of a better name, grouped them together under the title of ‘Blockers to the Good News’. The remaining ‘talks’ have been grouped together under the title ‘Simple Basic Lessons’ aimed at correcting some of the many ‘Misunderstandings’ that are so easy to pick up during earlier experiences or wrong teaching. Examples are ‘What is love?’ and ‘Who am I?’(2008 version) (Click any of these titles for a short cut)
More recently (2010) I have replaced, what was a ‘Quotes Page’ on this site, with a new series of fourteen shorter talks headed ‘2010 Talks’. Again they have a ‘printer friendly feature’
Two other Prison Ministry Web sites of mine are also available
The first www.jesuslovesprisoners.co.uk contains the seven 15 minute Talks that were broadcast by United Christian Broadcasters here in the UK during ‘Prisons Week’ in Nov 2008. They each contain some music as a break in the middle of the talk.
The other www.meetwithjesus.co.uk explores the Christian faith in more detail
