Posts Tagged "bk-thechurch"

Making Your Church a House of Healing

By Michael Gemignani   Author, pastor, and spiritual director Michael Gemignani affirms that Jesus Christ established the church primarily as an instrument of spiritual healing. Each local congregation, as the Body of Christ on earth, should, therefore, have spiritual healing as the focus of its ministry. In this practical primer for churches, Gemignani explores these key questions: • What is spiritual healing? • Why is it so...

Journey Into Wholeness: Prayer for Inner Healing, an Essential Ministry of the Church

By Alan Guile Drawing on forty years’ experience in this ministry, the author shows how prayer helps people to emerge from their past hurts and limitations, and gradually reclaim their real selves under the awesome power of God’s love. Powerful testimonies underline his call for the Church to empower clergy and laity to meet the needs of people suffering in a wide range of stressful life situations. The stories of some of...

Healing Touch: The Church’s Forgotten Language

By Zach Thomas In this helpful book, the author shows how clergy, friends, and congregations can reclaim the ancient practice of healing touch. He presents biblical principles that encourage wholesome behavior and protect against unhealthy touch. He provides a model for reflecting on touch in pastoral care, offers case studies that demonstrate how and when clients should be referred to body-work therapies, and provides congregations...

Healed, Restored, Forgiven: Liturgies, Prayers and Readings for the Ministry of Healing

By John Gunstone This book is designed to be a devotional and liturgical resource for all involved in the ministry of healing. It includes prayers and readings to use on a one-to-one basis in pastoral care and liturgies for healing services whether seen as part of the Eucharist or stand-alone. Increasingly, physical health is seen in a wider context of wellbeing and liturgies are also included for the ministry of...

Churches That Heal: Becoming a Church That Mends Broken Hearts and Restores Shattered Lives

By Doug Murren Why should churches heal? Does your church touch the lives of broken people and bring healing to their hearts? How does a church become that healing force that glorifies God and impacts whole communities? In a desperately hurting world full of toxic relationships, crippled values, and mutilated morality, lives are crying out for real healing — not drug-induced solutions, not psychobabble Band-Aids, but authentic answers...