A concern for healing and wholeness is common among many people today. This book introduces the thinking and practice of Leanne Payne, a leader in the charismatic healing ministry of the last century. Her focus on coming into the Presence of God as we are, engaging our imaginations and embracing different ways of listening, offers wise guidance in the area of healing. We tease out some of the ways her work engages the mystical tradition and how this tradition might be enriched in dialogue with a charismatic approach to healing. Healing is rarely straightforward but we can nourish hope in the active presence of Christ in our midst.

Leanne Payne explains the basis of her counseling ministry--Christ's indwelling presence that brings the power of the incarnation into wounded lives.

Mankind's condition has been described as a crisis in separation--from God, from others, and from ourselves. Leanne Payne shows how to overcome the three great barriers to wholeness: inability to receive God's forgiveness, inability to forgive others, and inability to accept ourselves.

Three barriers keep us from being whole persons: (1) inability to receive forgiveness; (2) inability to forgive; (3) inability to accept ourselves.

Shows readers how they can experience a fuller, more meaningful prayer life by learning how to listen to God.

Presents documented case studies of homosexuals and lesbians who have been reoriented to heterosexuality through applied healing prayer.

A call to fathers to affirm their children--even when they have never experienced affirmation from their own fathers--Crisis in Masculinity points the way to wholeness for men and the women in their lives.