The idea for this sermon, “There is Healing in the Touch,” comes from two sources. In the Gospel Jesus makes a house call at the home of Jairus, President of the Synagogue Council. We would call him Senior Warden. “My little girl is dying,” he said. “Will you come and put your hands on her?” When Jesus entered the room, he took the little girl’s hand and said to her in his own native language, “Wake 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…