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Mark 7:1-23

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Charles R. Leary

... doctor testified to that. He saw it happen.2 We are just beginning to see the top of the iceberg of a vast and invaluable body of knowledge in this whole area of health. Dr. Bernie Siegel’s book, Love, Medicine and Miracles, gives us some more insight. Dr. Siegel created ECAP Exceptional Cancer Patients a cancer patient support group. Listen to what he says: persons develop cancer when they hold grudges (resentment and hostility) against a spouse. Persons develop cancer who experience serious depression ...

2. The Power of Belief

John 20:24-31

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King Duncan

... physical reason why they should. First you have to believe. In one of his books on the mind/body connection, Dr. Bernie Siegel reports that beliefs can even change the color of a person’s eyes. How do we know this? Well, scientists have ... heart can stop beating altogether. (2) First you have to believe. The power of belief can help us achieve amazing things. This is what Dr. Norman Vincent Peale was teaching fifty years ago there is power in positive thinking. Some of you who are football fans may remember ...

3. The Power of Belief

John 20:24-31

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King Duncan

4. Prayer And Compassion Fatigue

Matthew 14:13-21

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Roger G. Talbott

... make more and more of their own decisions, handle more and more of their own emotional issues and the only one who can do that is someone who has taken charge of his or her own life. Children need to be empowered. The sick need to be empowered. Dr. Bernie Siegel says so many true things about taking charge of one's own life, even when we are ill. Yes, he says, that does involve asking people to help you with your shopping, or driving you to the doctor if you need it. It also means questioning what the ...

5. Healing on an Emotional Level

Mark 5:21-43

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Charles R. Leary

Dr Bernie S. Siegel, says in his book Love, Medicine and Miracles, "miracles happen to exceptional patients every day." Listen how he defines an exceptional patient ... twenty percent from an average audience show their hands. However, he says, "it is a tragedy" that only five percent show their hands in a roomful of doctors. Dr. Siegel thinks all doctors should be required to attend healing services as a part of their training. They should not be allowed to prescribe medications or consider operations during ...

6. The Best Offense Is A Good Defense

Zephaniah 3:1-20

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Richard Hasler

... the next corner -- Vanity Fair or the Slough of Despond. He must be adaptable and resilient. In the end, despite all adversities, God’s Spirit enables him to overcome and enter the Celestial City. A short time ago I heard Bernie Siegel give a lecture to about 500 people. Dr. Siegel is the New Haven, Connecticut, surgeon who has helped many people afflicted with cancer with his emphasis upon faith, love and hope. During the course of the lecture he told the story of a teenager named Susan who moved to ...

7. There Is Healing in the Touch

Mark 5:21-43

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Charles R. Leary

... up, little girl!” At once she jumped to her feet and walked around the room. The other source is a book my wife and I read to each other, published in 1988, Love, Medicine and Miracles, by Bernie S. Siegel, M.D., a surgeon in New Haven, Connecticut, and teacher at Yale University. Dr. Siegel declares that “miracles happen to exceptional patients every day.” Listen how he defines an exceptional patient. “Do you want to live to be a hundred?” If you can answer that by an immediate visceral “Yes ...

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