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17255: Numbering my Days to Learn Wisdom

Anita Mathias — Sat, 06 Sep 2014 20:31:25 +0000

Joash shooting the arrow of deliverance. William Dyce Last week, during a 72 hour worship festival, I found myself thinking of a dominant woman in my life, who apparently delighted in blocking my ideas. Off and on, I mentally composed apparently innocuous emails to her, sardonic and biting in a veiled way, emails I would “accidentally” […]

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In Which All Our Faith is Patchy, But Even That is Potent

Anita Mathias — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 15:39:28 +0000

My eighteen-year old daughter, Zoe, is at the School of Ministry at Catch the Fire, Toronto. She and the other School of Ministry students ministered at the same Catch the Fire conference as John Arnott and Heidi Baker. They were told to pray boldly, that everyone gets to play, that everyone was equal before God. […]

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On “Soaking Prayer”

Anita Mathias — Thu, 17 May 2012 20:32:00 +0000

Four years ago, I went to the grandly titled “International Leaders School of Ministry,” led by John Arnott of Catch the Fire (the new name of the Toronto Airport Fellowship, famous for the Toronto Blessing.) They taught us a form of prayer called soaking prayer. Basically: lie down on the floor, often facedown. The position […]

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