At 6 years of age I had an illness resulting in being hospitalised for 9 months, and not expected to live. I have personally known two people that once spoke in tongues when part of a charismatic Christian group. Any history of the rise and growth of Christianity that fails to take account of the belief in miracles and healings and signs and wonders is missing a very large part of the story. Again, it is not that hundreds of millions of people believe in miracles (though that is true too), it is that hundreds of millions of people have witnessed or experienced miracles. Five stars don't suffice to express the tectonic importance of this book and its eternal messages for all of us who thirst for the Truth.

Fifty-five percent of physicians claimed to have seen treatment results in their patients that they would consider miraculous (p. We often hold a narrow view of him that underestimates his role in sustaining every moment of our being. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Considering the way Christianity is experienced in some parts of America this book may contribute to a more open and loving way of living. Many of these miracles we hear of could just be the Universe doing more improbable, yet possible, things according to natural law.Though a friend of Schucman, Thetford, and Wapnick, Catholic priest Benedict Groeschel criticized ACIM and related organizations. Schucman believed that this interaction acted as a stimulus, triggering a series of inner experiences that were understood by her as visions, dreams, and heightened imagery, along with an "inner voice" which she identified as Jesus (although the ACIM text itself never explicitly claims that the voice she hears speaking is the voice of Jesus).

Keener develops an anthology of miracle stories and perspectives including sources from all across the Majority World as well as the recent West. This past month, I’ve read his most recent, much more “user-friendly” book entitled Miracles Today: The Supernatural Work of God in the Modern World, and once again, it was quite a lot to process.Keener further points out that even in the Bible, the word often translated as “miracle” really means “act of power. A Course in Miracles strengthens our awareness of choices we are already making and helps us to get in touch with our Inner Teacher. As Ken Wapnick would say, our ultimate goal as Course students is to FEEL better, as we gratefully accept the newfound joy of our shared salvation. Since too many of the examples above seem implausible to me as pure coincidence, particularly cumulatively, I prefer a different hypothesis: a personal God ready and able to heal, but one who also often allows created nature to take its own course and who is not manipulated by formulas, as perhaps an impersonal or merely psychological force could be.

In that sense, I once looked at every miracle in Acts, and noted that the vast majority are associated with people coming to believe. His books include heavily academic works (such as his four-volume Acts commentary) and popular ones (such as The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament). For instance, dragons flew over Bohemia for several days in 1533 and a spring of blood welled up from the ground in 1550 between Halle and Meissen.This book really laid out for me the differences between the ego and the true Self and allowed me to see which was operating when in my life, mostly in myself but sometimes in others. According to the Course, the world we think we navigate is really nothing more than an external projection of the mind's inner experience of repressed guilt over believing it separated from and in the process destroyed the one love we are and have never really left.