Live Audio Recordings: 2026 Living in Union with Christ
This five-day school walks through all the key topics from Leanne Payne’s Healing Presence and Restoring the Christian Soul through Healing Prayer. These live audio recordings include lectures, testimonies and prayers from July, 2026 at Cedar Springs Christian retreat center.
As you come to Him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious,
you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood,
to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. — I Peter 2:4-5 (ESV)
The Holy One is With Us
To know God at all is to know Him as holy, and He imparts this knowledge through His incarnational presence with and within us. This session lays the foundation for the rest of the school and begins exploring our call to abide in Christ.
Presenter: Dr. Sarah Colyn
The Story of Salvation
We’re created to participate in God’s eternal life and must choose either to abide in Him or to rebel so that our image-bearing gift becomes mis-creative. By His Cross Christ frees us from our bondage to the fallen world our sin brings about and restores our freedom to become mature members of His Body.
Presenter: Dr. Sarah Colyn
Testimony
Personal testimony
Presenter: Ana DeMiguel
Healing the Disease of Introspection
Compulsively turning attention inward on the self misuses our rational abilities and makes the heart sick. This session facilitates repentance from diseased self-analysis and engages with Love to restore the capacity to be.
Readings: The Healing Presence, Chapter 12, by Leanne Payne.
Presenter: Cody Crichton
The Gift of Life & the True Self
By taking Jesus as our model of what we are meant to be, we see that we are made to be accepted and sustained in God’s love from the womb to eternity. This session looks at developmental threats to being and well-being and how personal wholeness is restored through Christ’s death-defeating, life-giving cross.
Presenter: Dr. Sarah Colyn (with a testimony from Mandi Els)
Freedom in Christ: Renouncing Sexual Idolatry
A right understanding of the sexual union of husband and wife shows the nature of God’s love and His plan to make us one with Him. This session calls all of us – married, single, or celibate – out of idolatrous and enslaving distortions of sex and into the dignity of personal integration.
Presenter: Dr. Sarah Colyn
Testimony
Personal testimony
Presenter: Sarah Lim
Sacramental Knowing, Eucharistic Living
Our lives and all creation are God’s gift, given so that we might participate in His life. We find ourselves in finding Him, and can offer every moment and situation back to Him with gratitude.
Presenter: Dr. Sarah Colyn
Forgiving Others
Forgiving those who’ve sinned against us is essential to living in union with Christ. In this session we look at how forgiveness fits in the process of reconciliation, and work through some of the most challenging types of unforgiveness that can burden our hearts and relationships.
Presenter: Cody Crichton
Image and Healing of Woman
Whole women image the true feminine while also participating in and completing the masculine. This session honors God’s image in woman and ministers to the hatred of the feminine that is part of the spiritual attack against God’s kingdom.
Presenter: Dr. Sarah Colyn
Testimony
Personal Testimony
Presenter: Douglas Carrington
Receiving and Responding as Sons & Daughters
The unfallen posture is vertical. God created us as erect creatures with faces turned up to Him in dialogue. In this position we continually receive our true identity from Him. In this position we live as the fundamentally relational creatures He made us to be, in healthy dependence upon Him and in life-giving interdependence with one another.
Presenter: Dr. Sarah Colyn
Being & Becoming Man
“There is no greater need today than for knowledgeable and noble men in authority everywhere, capable of courageously speaking the truth both in the church and in the public square” (Heavens Calling, 292).
Presenter: Cody Crichton
The Virtue of Hope
This supernatural virtue is a God-given grace that must be pursued and cultivated. Hope protects against despair and energizes us as pilgrims-on-the-way to fulfillment in God’s heavenly presence.
Presenter: Dr. Sarah Colyn (with a testimony from Lila Kwok)
The Virtue of Self-Acceptance
Following Jesus into maturity means accepting ourselves as God accepts us, leaving self-hatred behind, and trusting in Christ’s righteousness as our own. Knowing God as Father and receiving His personal affirmation enables us to develop this essential Christian virtue.
Readings: Restoring the Christian Soul, Part 1, by Leanne Payne.
Presenter: Dr. Sarah Colyn (with a testimony from Silvia Pura)
Desires of the Heart Prayer
This prayer exercise engages the true imagination. In it we ask God to show us the true desires of our hearts.
Presenter: Cody Crichton
Testimony
Personal Testimony
Presenter: Fr. Ryan Brotherton
Healing of Memories Prayer, Mother
In the healing of our memories, the Holy Spirit finds and touches the root issues underlying our lack of freedom: rejections, trespasses, and deficits of the past that yet await the ministry of forgiveness of sin.
Readings: Restoring the Christian Soul, Chapter 6, by Leanne Payne
Presenter: Dr. Sarah Colyn
