Understanding Health, Disease, Suffering

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Dan Fountain

Dec 19, 2011

This session addresses the difficult question: “If God is good and wants us to be healthy, why do we get sick and die?” I tell the story of my wife who went “safely home” in spite of medicine, much prayer, and inner healing, and the new lessons about life and disease I have learned from this.

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