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Am.  Adults                 NEWSWEEK,   2000
84 %  believe God performs miracles
48 %  personally experienced or witnessed one
Am.  Adults                    NEWSWEEK,   2003
72 %  welcome
   a conversation with their physician about faith.
They believe praying to God can cure someone even if science says no.
Spirituality & Medicine
2/3 of 125 medical schools of US include spirituality & faith in their curriculums,
   up from just 3 in 1992.
patients are demanding
                                 more spiritual care.
Harvard,   Johns Hopkins,   Brown,    U-Penn,   U-Chicago,   UCLA,   etc.
Prominent Scholars
"Templeton"
Templeton
Foundation
Press
2002
Jesus¡¯ Credibility
(John 4:48) Unless you people see miraculous signs and wonders,
    you will never believe.
(John 14:11) or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles.
(Mathew 11:5) The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised
Evidence of the Living God
    (Mark 16:17-18)
    signs will accompany those who believe:
    In my name ¡¦ place their hands on sick  people, and they will get well.
Evidence of the Living God
Early Churches
Evidence of the Living God
       Jesus Christ is the same
yesterday and today and forever.
Extraordinary Miracles
through handkerchiefs prayed over
Transcending Time & Space
Healing  through
prayer on photos
        Healing Prayer Festivals
Divine Healing
 comforts doctors
 helps medical mission
Scientific Evidence  (WCDN)
History
Diagnosis
X-ray,  CT,  MRI,  Endoscopy,  Biopsy,
    Biochemistry,  Audiometry,  etc
Each one¡¯s own measure of Faith
ignored by  Statistical tests
Sin-Disease connection
(Isaiah 53:5)
    ¡¦ pierced for our transgressions
    ¡¦ crushed for our iniquities;
    the punishment¡¦ was upon him,
    and by his wounds (stripes) we are healed.
(Exodus 15:26) "If you listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in his eyes, ¡¦ I will not bring on you any of the diseases ¡¦, for I am the LORD, who heals you."
Faith for Healing
(1 Peter 2:24) by his wounds you have been healed.
(Mark 11:24) whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Sin as Cause of Disease
(Mark 2:5) When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, ¡°Son, your sins are forgiven.¡±
(John 5:14) Jesus said to him, ¡°See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.¡±
Exceptions (So, don¡¯t judge!)
(John 9:2-3) "Rabbi, who sinned,
   this man or his parents,
   that he was born blind?"
  "Neither this man nor his parents sinned," said Jesus, "but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.
Testimony about My Grandmother
Herpes Zoster in her 70¡¯s
Excruciating
    Post Herpetic Neuralgia
No Effective Treatment
Received Prayer
Shouted,
    ¡°A demon¡¯s going out of me!¡±
Healing
Spirituality & Medicine
   Thank you!