Stretch Out Your Hand: Exploring Healing Prayer [Perfect Paperback]

Tilda Norberg (Author), Robert D. Webber (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1998

"Stretch Out Your Hand offers practical ways for us to consider the varieties of God's healing love for individuals, institutions and communities. The book provides an honest examination of the many difficult questions about prayer and the role of faith in healing.
Through exercises and stories, the authors reintroduce readers to Jesus' healing ministry and to his vision of the church as a healing community.
A Leader's Guide is also available.
Also available in a Spanish translation."

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About the Author

"Tilda Norberg, a United Methodist minister, is the founder of Gestalt Pastoral Care. After receiving her theological education at Union Theological Seminary, she completed further training at the Gestalt Institute of Princeton.
Norberg is also a graduate of The Gestalt Institute of Canada and the Lomi School in San Francisco. Robert D. Webber is ordained in the United Church of Christ and is Professor Emeritus of New Testament at Lancaster Theological Seminary, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He received a Ph.D. degree from Yale University, and he also holds degrees from the University of Oklahoma and Southern Methodist University."

Product Details

• Perfect Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Upper Room; Revised edition (June 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0835808726
• ISBN-13: 978-0835808729
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #414,567 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stretch Out Your Hand: Exploring Healing Prayer, August 16, 2005

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Teresa Matty (NC) - See all my reviews
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This has been the single biggest book to impact my life next to the Bible! I have read several books on healing prayer and touch. And how to help and pray for others. This book has, and I wasn't even expecting it, helped me the most! It has opened my eyes to total healing and how we can be healed in so many other ways than just physcially. I wish everyone would read this book. And no I don't make any money on this book. Every minister especially, should have and read this book.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Should Get Six Stars!, July 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Stretch Out Your Hand: Exploring Healing Prayer (Perfect Paperback)

This book brought a turnabout to my thinking about healing and health and prayer. A friend gave the book to me after a long conversation about prayer and the television preachers who wave their hands and magically heal people. I still don't think much of those charlatans on television, but the book by Norberg and Webber talks about healing in a variety of ways, the least as physical. They write about emotional and spiritual and relational healing, something God knows that we need. They write a chapter that seemed to come from the Sixties, but seems appropriate today, about healing institutions--exorcising them of the evil powers they have. (Reminded me of a protest during Vietnam when the Pentagon was exorcised. But that's not part of this book.) This book is fully based on the Bible. The authors explore texts to help us understand the biblical world as well as the contemporary one and the way healing was understood then and can be understood today. A fine book!

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stretch Out Your Hand : Exploring Healing Prayer, January 12, 2000

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Joanna McGinn (San Jose, California, USA) - See all my reviews

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A clear, straight-foreward outline of what healing prayer is and, perhaps more importantly, what it is not. The examples are clear. The text is articulately written and easily understood. It is meant to promote the use of prayer, espcially healing prayer as a part of daily experiences. It gives clear guidelines for helping those in need and how to be a good listener and how to allow God to enter the situation on HIS agenda, not the pray-er. I THOROUGHLY recommend this book.