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The following articles address a broad range of topics related to our approach to emotional healing ministry. With Karl's background in science and medicine, and Charlotte's background in seminary, we are interested in, and able to speak to, many different aspects of a Christian approach to emotional healing. We use the term "Theophostic®-based" to refer to therapies/ministries that are built around a core of Theophostic® principles and techniques, but that are not exactly identical to Theophostic® Prayer Ministry as taught by Dr. Ed Smith. Our own therapy/ministry would be a good example - it is built around a core of Theophostic® principles and techniques, but it sometimes also includes material that is not a part of what we understand Dr. Smith to define as Theophostic® Prayer Ministry (such as our material on dealing with curses, spiritual strongholds, generational problems, and suicide-related phenomena, and our material on journaling, spiritual disciplines, community, and medical psychiatry).
Some of our newer material, such as our essays on spiritual disciplines and "New Wineskin Community," focus on putting the journey of healing into the larger context of personal growth, maturity, community, and Christian discipleship. These subjects are much broader than specific tools and techniques for therapy/ministry, but our perception is that they have important impact on individual emotional healing. Our perception is that solutions for some of the most difficult individual healing problems can only be found when these broader issues are taken into account.
8 documents in this section:
"Is It From the Lord? – On Discerning Words"
(posted: 06/02/2001 revised: 11/20/2011) Learning to discern the Lord's "voice" or leading is essential to the life of Christian discipleship. It is also an essential part of one's skills in Theophostic ministry, in which so much depends on "hearing" from the Lord. This is not a comprehensive discussion of discernment, but hopefully these thoughts will be helpful when a "word" or message is unclear, or when there is disagreement as to the word's source.
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"Transparency, Vulnerability, and Self Disclosure in Our Ministry"
(posted: 01/13/2007 revised: 01/13/2007) Many of you have expressed appreciation for our self disclosure and have commented about how it has been helpful. Others have expressed discomfort and/or concerns. We have thought a lot about this, and felt it would be helpful to share our thoughts regarding why we engage in such an unusual level of transparency, vulnerability, and self disclosure.
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"Theophostic Ministry and Sexual Dysfunction"
(posted: 03/29/2002 revised: 12/17/2004) We have received a number of questions about sexuality and Theophostic Ministry, and have written this essay to briefly summarize our thoughts regarding addictive sexual behavior, compulsive sexual behavior, sexual abuse triggers hindering appropriate sexual intimacy, and sexual identity disorders (homosexuality and transsexualism)
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"Bereavement, Grief, and Mourning"
(posted: 08/12/2003 revised: 08/12/2003) This essay provides a brief summary of our thoughts and of Dr. Smith's writings regarding the application of Theophostic principles to bereavement, grief, and mourning. It also includes a ministry aid and sample prayers for resolving truth based grief pain.
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"Doing Theophostic on Yourself"
(posted: 01/16/2003 revised: 01/16/2003) In this article, Dr. Lehman describes some of the issues involved in using Theophostic ministry on oneself
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"Theophostic Ministry and Type A Trauma"
(posted: 02/23/2002 revised: 02/23/2002) A number of people have asked questions about type "A" trauma and Theophostic ministry. We have written out several of our thoughts in response to these questions
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"How do I know for sure if Theophostic worked?"
(posted: 09/06/2000 revised: 09/06/2000) This document gives some tips and reflections on evaluating whether a Theophostic ministry session was "successful"
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"Neurophysiology of Emotions"
(posted: 08/31/2000 revised: 08/31/2000) This article describes the relationship between subjective emotions and electrical neurological signals in the mind and chemical reactions in the body
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