Understand the basic practical aspects of pastoral care and make your visit to the sick meaningful for both of you Training Guide for Visiting the Sick: More Than a Social Call is a useful handbook from a Christian perspective that provides the common sense and not-so-common answers to your questions on how best to minister to the sick. Drawing on his three decades of experience as a bedside hospital chaplain, the author explains appropriate and inappropriate behaviors and suggests things to say (or not to say) to truly make your next visit fruitful for you and the patient. More than simply...

Understand the basic practical aspects of pastoral care and make your visit to the sick meaningful for both of you Training Guide for Visiting the Sick: More Than a Social Call is a useful handbook from a Christian perspective that provides the common sense and not-so-common answers to your questions on how best to minister to the sick. Drawing on his three decades of experience as a bedside hospital chaplain, the author explains appropriate and inappropriate behaviors and suggests things to say (or not to say) to truly make your next visit fruitful for you and the patient. More than simply...

From both a theological and a psychological perspective, this text examines the destructive, damning nature of sin--whether against God's law or in violation of one's own adopted moral code. (Christian)

This book describes more than 50 specific social and political improvements brought about by the influence of Christianity. The followers of Jesus were transformed before the crucifixion, but real change began after He emerged from the tomb.