Mission 2013 #30 Healing Hurting Hearts

Here is Cincinnati we have The Lindner Institute for the Human Heart. Unfortunately, there is no Institute for the Care and Cure of Christian Hearts. Almost no church today is interested in Healing Hurting Hearts. There is a frenzied push to build churches that are a mile wide and an inch deep.  One Mother Church is spawning multiple campuses but almost none do any type of inner healing and pastoral care. 

The number and percentage of people being crushed by parental dysfunction and divorce is skyrocketing yet the churches have little training in how to listen carefully and therapeutically to those hurting heart. Would you like to learn how to Heal Hurting Hearts? Go to my web page and download our books on the Care and Cure of The Soul. Take a look at Breaking Free to learn how to heal all the hurting hearts that God sends you way.

The use of heroin is rising and public officials are in a panic mode but Christian leaders seem unaware of it. This means that the church is not being a place of intentional healing. Yes, coming to Christ is healing and growing in Christ through the Word and Worship help all of us but they cannot do  everything that is needed to turn the tide.

 In fact, there are few places where funds for Christian planning, leadership, research and development.  The most successful companies in the world spend billions on R&D but churches spend little if any.

Apple increased the amount it spent on research and development during 2012, though it remained a fraction of its overall spending.

According to the company's annual report, which was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this afternoon, Apple spent $3.4 billion on research and development during its fiscal year, up $952 million, or 39 percent from last year. The year prior, the company spent $2.4 billion, up $647 million or 36 percent from the year before.

While the cost went up, the amount Apple spends on R&D versus its overall sales remained tiny. As in 2011, Apple's tally for 2012 remained at 2 percent.

Apple's R&D spending has been under close watch for years, in no small part because it spends considerably less than many of its rivals. Microsoft, for instance, spent $9.8 billion in its fiscal 2012, while Google spent $5.2 billion in its fiscal 2011.

"[Apple] continues to believe that focused investments in R&D are critical to its future growth and competitive position in the marketplace and are directly related to timely development of new and enhanced products that are central to the Company's core business strategy," Apple said in its filing. "As such, the Company expects to make further investments in R&D to remain competitive." http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57543370-37/apple-r-d-spending-up-nearly-40-percent-in-2012


 With the advent of Obamacare God's people have an opportunity to step into the gap of health care needs and do wonderful works of the Holy Spirit. Pastors, get ready!