Jeanie Carden

@CraigBrockie RESTORE

1 in 10 Americans now has an autoimmune disease. Lupus. Crohn's. Hashimoto's. Type 1 diabetes. Multiple sclerosis. Rheumatoid arthritis. Your doctor will tell you it's genetic. Or bad luck. Or that your immune system just "turned on itself." Harvard researchers disagree. A pediatric gastroenterologist at Mass General (Dr. Alessio Fasano) spent 20 years tracking down the missing piece. What he found changed the conversation. Every autoimmune disease he studied shared the same three ingredients: - A specific environmental trigger - Genetic predisposition - A leaky gut Take any one of those away, and the disease doesn't start. The gut isn't just where food gets digested. It's a one-cell-thick wall - The only thing standing between your bloodstream and everything you eat, drink, and swallow. When that wall is tight, your immune system stays calm. When it's leaky, Undigested food particles and bacterial fragments slip through into your blood. Your immune system sees invaders and attacks. But the particles look a lot like your own tissue. Attack the gluten fragments → attack the thyroid (Hashimoto's) Attack the bacterial fragments → attack the joints (rheumatoid arthritis) Attack them over and over → attack the nerves (MS), the gut (Crohn's), the pancreas (Type 1) This is called molecular mimicry. Here's what people report when they heal the gut wall: Skin clearing up Brain fog clearing up Digestion finally working Joint pain fading within weeks Autoimmune flares slowing down Energy returning after years of fatigue The things that punch holes in the gut wall: Gluten (yes, even if you don't have celiac) Glyphosate on conventional crops NSAIDs (ibuprofen, aspirin) Ultra-processed food Chronic stress Antibiotics Poor sleep None of these are rare. Most people have all seven running on autopilot. I've been saying for 30 years: almost every chronic disease traces back to a broken gut. The science keeps catching up. The good news? Unlike your genes, the gut wall is something you can actually rebuild. Comment RESTORE and I'll send you a free guide on how to heal the gut and calm the immune system naturally. P.S. MUST Follow for me to DM you.

The deepest way to know a professing Christian’s actual theology is not to ask them which historic confession they subscribe to but to watch how they treat other people.

Idolatry is worshipping anything which ought to be used, and using anything that ought to be worshipped. - St Augustine

A critical spirit is not a fruit of the Spirit.

If you uproot an idol in your life and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back or be replaced.

"Can people tell from the emphasis we attach to material things whether we have set our affection on things above, or whether we are primarily attached to this world?" #BillyGraham

The Lord’s not playing. God help us if we are stupid enough to keep playing, politicking, deceiving, scheming, sheltering, manipulating, gas-lighting, exploiting, abusing & feigning innocency, doing everything under heaven in his name but actually submitting in humility to him.

“A fresh awakening will not come from getting all our biblical interpretations settled & agreed upon. It will come when we divest ourselves of our idols and return to Jesus.” —@BethMooreLPM

Don't let success go to your head. Don't let failure go to your heart.

“The Lord has done great things for us and we are filled with joy!”

I’m praying with much heart & faith that he will give you glimpses of ways he’s at work and insight into the depth of his love for you. I pray that some of what he’ll let you see will catch you by delightful surprise & you, with the Psalmist in 126, will laugh again & say of him,

There’s no end to the Lord’s kindness. I’ve seen it so tenderly displayed in a number of lives recently. Amazed once again how attentive he is to the minutest details. Know by faith how dearly he loves you, how deeply he cares & how intimately acquainted he is with your concerns.

The sermon isn’t a sermon until it gets to Jesus. Praying for all my fellow Gospel heralds today that all will preach Christ no matter the text or subject for he is all and in all.

"The greatest barrier to knowing God's will is simply that we want to run our own lives. Our problem is that a battle is going on in our hearts—a battle between our wills and God's will." #BillyGraham

Many religions may tell you how to get to God, how to earn his favor, how to climb the mountain to reach him. Christianity stands apart in that our God came down the mountain to get to us, to pursue us, to find us, forgive us and make us his own—by grace alone through faith alone

“We also pray that you will be strengthened with all his glorious power so you will have all the endurance and patience you need. May you be filled with joy,” (Colossians 1:11)

Sexual love--if it’s not expressed in an exclusive, life-long covenant relationship--is dehumanizing.

“There are only two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’”-C.S. Lewis

How I stay in peace: -I trust God more and depend on myself less -I stay in my lane and do what is mine to do -I live in my present day, not in the past or in the future -I cast my cares upon God, choose joy, and let God do what I cannot 🎧 Episode 88—christinecaine.com/podcast

Never let a circumstance in life be a reason to doubt God’s promise.