Being a doctor and going to the doctor are theological issues. A major thesis of the book is that a de-medicalization of physicians is necessary and should be replaced by a Scripto-centric approach to life in the practice of medicine. This call is radical, humanly speaking, but we have a God Who has given much to us as Christian physicians and expects much of us. There is a biblical view of the practice of medicine, and it is the major avenue that patients have for reaching true comfort and help. Each physician must be able to articulate it and the book is written for that purpose. A rightly understood biblical view of medicine is the only way that doctors have for giving genuine hope to hurting people and for the advancement of God s kingdom.

Being Christian in Your Medical Practice

Business & Money

Halla, Dr. Jim

Business Culture

Emerald House Group, Incorporated

There is no time that endurance is not needed. 
However, too often for the believer endurance is simply coping, accepting, tolerating, and just getting by. What a misconception of Paul’s words in Romans 8:35-37. Believers are more than conquerors. In John’s writings he emphasizes the true Nike, and it is not Michael Jordan. 
The true conqueror is Christ the King and the believer’s endurance is to be modeled after Him. Hurting people, sinned-against people, and sinning people need to know and apply Godly endurance. 
The joy of enduring God’s way is the privilege, blessing, and responsibility for all of God’s people no matter their age or spiritual maturity.

Endurance: What It Is and How It Looks in a Believer’s Life

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

The way to grieve God’s way is to model how Jesus grieved. 
The Bible teaches that Jesus grieved appropriately, properly, and with an eternal perspective. His grief was uncomplicated and forward-looking. Jesus’ motivation for all of life was pleasing His Father which influenced His perspective and response to the death of Lazarus, the fall of Jerusalem, and His own death. He knew and applied the principle of gain through loss. 
Because Jesus grieved God’s way, so too can the believer. Because Jesus lived and taught the principle of gain through loss, so too can the believer,. 
The believer is never under the circumstances and a victim but is instead more-than-a-conqueror, because he is in Christ Jesus.

Joy in Grief: God's Answer for Hard Times

People with bad feelings and feeling-directed behavior anger, fear, worry, depression usually are given a psychiatric label. Initially, I was comfortable with that approach, but I have come to realize that people must be evaluated based on a proper understanding of the Bible. When that happens the whole person (thinking, wanting, and doing) will be considered not just outward behavior and feelings. Feelings, their generation and the person's response to them, will not be the major criteria for some label or the target for treatment, medical and otherwise. Rather, thinking and wanting that leads to bad feelings will be the target of the Christian helper friend, pastor, counselor, and physician. Thinking, wanting, and doing thereby feelings, will be evaluated using the filter of biblical truth. The truth sets people free as they apply it to their situation with the goal of pleasing God. Biblically-controlled thinking and wanting will replace sinful thoughts and desires. Biblically-controlled actions will follow. Turning the patient to the root and heart of the issue his thinking and wanting and his relationship with Christ is the first step in helping the person get victory in his problems, not necessarily out of them. Victory, God's way, won't come until we view all feeling states, and man, from a biblical perspective.

Depression Through A Biblical Lens: A Whole-Person Approach

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Job, the book and the man, is well-known even in the public arena. However, the main character of the book is the Triune God. Moreover, some have suggested that the book of Job focuses on the larger problem of evil in a good God’s world. By definition that would include the concept of victimhood. However, Dr. Jim Halla thinks that approach misses major issues in the book. 
The Book of Job: God’s Faithfulness in Troubled Times presents Dr. Halla’s understanding of the book under four major headings: God’s sovereignty, suffering, suspicion, and success. 
Job began well but faltered. He considered himself alone, deafening silence from God, and his relationship with God in shambles. God took him to the zoo and the sea and Job learned well: he repented and God placed him in the position of intercessor for his friends. He functioned as a type of Christ but he was not Christ. He came to embrace those two truths. 
The book of Job is for all believers in all seasons no matter their spiritual maturity. As you read The Book of Job: God’s Faithfulness in Troubled Times, see if you catch a glimpse of Job’s radical reversal.

The Book of Job: God's Faithfulness in Troubled Times

In today's society, healing and doctors' visits are centered around a "self" and "me" attitude. As Christians, in spite of an illness or condition, we should approach medical care with a Christian attitude. Dr. Jim Halla shows readers how to be a God-pleasing patient and how to have a mindset that centers on God.

How to Be a God-Pleasing Patient: A Biblical Approach to Receiving Medical Care

Do you suffer from pain? At last–a book on “pain management” from a Christian viewpoint! Pain: The Plight of Fallen Man is a volume you can read with confidence that will direct those suffering from pain to God’s solution to the problem from Scripture. Dr. Jim Halla, a practicing rheumatologist and a National Association of Nouthetic Counselors fellow, knows from experience how to use the Scripture to help those suffering pain. In his medical practice, Dr. Halla regularly treats and counsels hurting patients. In Pain: The Plight of Fallen Man Dr. Halla shares his wisdom with those who hurt and those who are trying to help.

Pain: The Plight of Fallen Man

Self-Help

Motivational

Out of the Maze: A Covenantal View of Hope

The Bible contains many "one another" passages for the building up of the saints and the strengthening of the Church. But what does "One Anothering" (OAN) look like in a post-pandemic world? How can we build up the Church and love one another as Christ has loved us? In One-Anothering: An Aspect of Progressive Sanctification, Dr. Jim Halla takes a closer look at the over fifty New Testament passages that command various activities of OAN to help the reader understand just how to honor God as presented in Ephesians 4:11-14. With social injustice, racial tensions, and political divisions facing American Christians today, we need OAN more than ever. Discover how the truths and commands in God's Word are still needed in today's ever-changing world.

One-Anothering: An Aspect of Progressive Sanctification

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