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I Am the Lord Who Heals You: Reflections on Healing, Wholeness, and Restoration
This is a collection of sermons which explores Christian understandings of healing, wholeness, and restoration. Among the contributors are Walter Brueggemann, Barbara Brown Taylor, Maxie Dunnam, Barbara Lundblad, William Sloane Coffin, and Reginald Mallett.
The editor of the volume, G. Scott Morris, is a physician and an elder in The United Methodist Church. He is founder and executive director of the Church Health Center in Memphis, Tennessee, the largest faith-based, not-for-profit primary health clinic in America.
The editor of the volume, G. Scott Morris, is a physician and an elder in The United Methodist Church. He is founder and executive director of the Church Health Center in Memphis, Tennessee, the largest faith-based, not-for-profit primary health clinic in America.
119 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 2004
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December 30, 2013
After hearing Mr. Morris interviewed on a national radio program, I purchased this book with high hopes.
Unfortunately, I was disappointed from the beginning. I had hoped for a collections of sermons that struggled with the real Biblical tensions around the definition of healing, the role of the church in healing and the difficulty of when God does not chose to heal. I think I was looking for an approach similar to Piper and Grudem's work "Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood", that addressed the concept of healing.
Instead, this book is a very affluent, educated, comfortable collection of homiletic musings about healing, not strong Biblical sermons. While Biblical texts are referenced, they are neither exegetic nor integrated.
The speakers ruminate on many topics, but don't seem to be interested engaging a truly Biblical understanding or worldview in regard to healing. Rather, they speak in cultural, psychological, medical, and social justice terms. They engage Buddhist legends, references to God as "herself" and numerous other extra Biblical ideas. It's all very intelligent, but lacking wisdom that comes from the Word.
I found them to be Christians thinking the thoughts of the world. If this kind of shallow, recycled, thoughts are what the world has to offer people in painful need of healing, the Church has few answers at all. I kept reading, hoping that because they were individual works by many different people, there would be at least one redeeming chapter. But to no avail... I have read the journals of people dying of cancer as they wrestle with the LORD and the Biblical text that were more helpful, more Biblical, more inspiring and more enlightening than this work.
Unfortunately, I was disappointed from the beginning. I had hoped for a collections of sermons that struggled with the real Biblical tensions around the definition of healing, the role of the church in healing and the difficulty of when God does not chose to heal. I think I was looking for an approach similar to Piper and Grudem's work "Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood", that addressed the concept of healing.
Instead, this book is a very affluent, educated, comfortable collection of homiletic musings about healing, not strong Biblical sermons. While Biblical texts are referenced, they are neither exegetic nor integrated.
The speakers ruminate on many topics, but don't seem to be interested engaging a truly Biblical understanding or worldview in regard to healing. Rather, they speak in cultural, psychological, medical, and social justice terms. They engage Buddhist legends, references to God as "herself" and numerous other extra Biblical ideas. It's all very intelligent, but lacking wisdom that comes from the Word.
I found them to be Christians thinking the thoughts of the world. If this kind of shallow, recycled, thoughts are what the world has to offer people in painful need of healing, the Church has few answers at all. I kept reading, hoping that because they were individual works by many different people, there would be at least one redeeming chapter. But to no avail... I have read the journals of people dying of cancer as they wrestle with the LORD and the Biblical text that were more helpful, more Biblical, more inspiring and more enlightening than this work.
October 22, 2021
I Am the Lord Who Heals was an enjoyable book full of stories, encouragement, and examples of miraculous healing at the hand of God. The author presents Bible scriptures and examples of the way Jesus healed people and the way faith shapes how, when, and if people recover.
In addition, the author laid out the explanation for those who question why some face challenges and the fact that God does not cause illness, pain, or accidents. This little book is a great resource, and I would think it will comfort readers. The author was critically hurt, saw many who suffered and still he maintained a beautiful spirit and published an optimistic book.
In addition, the author laid out the explanation for those who question why some face challenges and the fact that God does not cause illness, pain, or accidents. This little book is a great resource, and I would think it will comfort readers. The author was critically hurt, saw many who suffered and still he maintained a beautiful spirit and published an optimistic book.
October 4, 2020
This is an interesting read. A collection of authors who contributed sermons, with each expressing and reflecting on their rich knowledge and understanding of God in the area of healing, wholeness and restoration.
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