When Jesus talked about healing (Matt. 13:15), he was speaking of something far more significant and weighty than mere physical conditions.

He was offering a standing invitation: “Check in for as many visits as you need to get well and as many as you need to stay well. The bill is paid. My insurance covers it. The care and attention are glorious, I promise! It is beyond anything in this world. And oh, what a difference it will make!”

If we will just take the courageous step of checking in to give our hearts over to Jesus’ intensive care unit and let him heal us, we can experience how good he truly is.

Will it hurt? Probably. But it’s like the boy Eustace who declares in the film version of C.S. Lewis’s Voyage of the Dawn Treader, just after Aslan transformed him from a dragon back to a boy,

No matter how hard I tried I just couldn’t do it myself. Then He came towards me. It sort of hurt, but . . . it was a good pain. You know, like when you pull a thorn from your foot.

An excerpt from The Heart of a Warrior. Learn more here. 

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Men have a glorious and significant role in God’s Larger Story. They also are the target of a special warfare aimed continually and ruthlessly at the center of their being… their masculine hearts. Naivety and ignorance keep many men running in circles while misinformation and poor training keep many more in bondage. Men are wounded, frustrated, angry and being crushed under the weight of criticism and expectations. The attempted solutions of recent years is education; tell men what they are doing wrong and give them a list to memorize. This strategy isn’t working and its time we fall back to an Ancient One. What if we are setting men up for failure rather than helping them be free? Join author and guide, Michael Thompson, as he invites men to a place of training and orientation that will ensure both a settled heart and a fierce courage. A man cannot enter this battle without knowing he is a Beloved Son. After all, that is what the battle is all about!

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