Top Posts of 2014

In case you missed them, here are the top 5 posts of 2014:

1) How a Christian doctor treated one patient's depression: Testimony from Depression

2) Do people have A "Right" to Health Care?

3) The idea of physical agency for medical complaints has pushed the spirit of mankind out of its proper claim: Germ Theory and the Spirit

4) We carry the germs of deadly spiritual ideas from a misbegotten medical orthodoxy... and bring those wrong ideas into our examination rooms: Connecting Physicians and Pastors

5) What is a Free Economy?

Seized Authority

[T]o read the New Testament letters is to read about the same common concerns that psychologists are charged with handling. God, however, charged the Church with these problems. Secular psychology initially was seizing authority from the Church. Now the evangelical church is actively foisting off these "psychological" problems onto psychology, having accepted the whole renaming bit that comes with the false dichotomy of mind-spirit. The Church is abdicating its responsibility.


Excerpt from a private letter

How the Government Killed the Medical Profession

Government interventions over the past four decades have yielded a cascade of perverse incentives, bureaucratic diktats, and economic pressures that together are forcing doctors to sacrifice their independent professional medical judgment, and their integrity. The consequence is clear: Many doctors from my generation are exiting the field. Others are seeing their private practices threatened with bankruptcy, or are giving up their autonomy for the life of a shift-working hospital employee. Governments and hospital administrators hold all the power, while doctors—and worse still, patients—hold none.

-- An excerpt from "How the Government Killed the Medical Profession" by Jeffrey A. Singer, an article Dr. Terrell would have liked.

Read the rest of the article here.

Original Sin

We are condemned not merely because of our sins but positionally, from conception, we are in sin, until we accept Christ. (Gen. 8:21, Psalm 51:5, 14:1-3). There is a universal moral law that reveals our sin state even if we have never heard the Gospel. True, it may be twisted and blunted and obscured in a few (usually weird and backward) societies, but it is there.


Excerpt from a private letter

Long-view Optimism

[T]hough the battles I am involved in are going the wrong way, the essential victory to secure the war has already been won. Short-view pessimism, long-view optimism.


An excerpt from a private letter