God's Prescription for Healing Book

	Foreword	xiii
	Preface	xv
	Introduction	xvii
	The Design for Healing	xvii
	The Need for Understanding and Appreciation	xix
	Purpose	xxi
	This Book	xxi
Part I	Natural Healing
1	An Intelligent Design--and Designer	1
2	Disease and Healing	4
	The Basics	5
3	Irreducible Complexity, Impeccable Design	7
	The Magnificent Cell	9
	DNA	10
	The Human Body	12
	The Awesome Eye	13
4	Examples of Design for Balance, Repair, and Cure	15
	Skin Healing	16
	Corneal Healing	18
	The Immune System	22
	Understanding the Immune System	24
	Innate (nonspecific) immunity	25
	Adaptive (specific) immunity	26
	Tissues and organs of immunity	28
	The main goals	29
	The double-edged sword--when things go wrong	29
5	Designed for Health	34
Part II	Assisted Healing
6	Physician-Assisted Healing	39
	Medical Science, the Physician, and Healing	40
	The example of cataract surgery	41
	Genetic Engineering	47
	The Issues of Care and Cure	51
	Cure and Healing	53
	Understanding and respect	54
	Knowledge and competence	55
	Compassion	55
	Activity replacement	56
	Assurance	56
	The Physician As Healer	56
	Limitations to Assistance	59
	The Meaning of Collective and Personal Responsibility	62
7	You Are Your Own Best Physician	65
	Physical Alignment	67
	Prevention of Disease	68
	Health and Wholeness	68
	Proper nutrition	69
	Exercise	70
	Complementary methods	71
	Choices	72
	God's Wisdom Confirmed by Science	73
	Conclusion	74
Part III	Inner Healing
8	Mental Alignment With the Creator's Design	79
	Mind and Body, Body and Mind	83
	Worry, Anxiety, Fear	84
	Managing the Negative Emotions	91
	Laughter--life's therapeutic medicine	92
	Mental Healing	95
	Personality	95
	Hope As an Antidote	96
9	The Prescription for Inner Healing	101
	Prayer	102
	Fellowship	106
	The Blessed Mind-set	109
10	Spiritual Alignment With the Creator's Design	116
	Obstacles to Alignment and God's Inner Healing	118
	Pride	118
	A critical spirit	120
	A spirit of envy	121
	The Great Physician	122
	Repentance	123
	Salvation	125
	Forgiveness first	126
	After the honeymoon	128
	Resting in the Bosom of the Trinity	129
11	Unveiling the New Heart	132
	Spiritual vs. Natural	133
	Love	134
	Loving God = Inner Healing	135
	The Purpose of Our Lives and Eternity	136
	Two Penetrating Insights	139
12	The Healing of the Word	142
Part IV	Improbable Healing
13	Improbable Healing in the Scriptures	149
	Improbable Healing in the Bible	151
	Healing and appreciation	151
	Forgiveness, purpose, and "direction"	151
	Cleansing and compassion	153
	Favoring the neglected	153
	Restoration and hope	154
	Improbable healing and our understanding	156
14	Modern Examples of Improbable Healing	158
	Improbable Deliverance From Addiction	165
15	How Do We Seek an Improbable Healing?	169
Part V	Ultimate Healing
16	Designed for Eternity	173
	Three Feasts and Three Courts	174
	Graduation Day!	176
	A Beautiful Design	177
	How Will He Reward You?	178
	The Facts About Rewards	179
	A Date to Keep!	181
17	Eternity's Anointed Purpose for Life	182
	The Temporal, the Eternal	183
	Motivated by Hope or Despair?	184
	Our Perspective: Living in Light of Eternity	186
18	A Walk Through Glory	188
	Good-bye, Trouble and Sorrow!	189
	Inconceivable Blessing	191
	Can Anything Be Added to This?	192
	Conclusion: Final Words	197
	Hearing God Think	197
	The Lord Has a Plan for Your Cut Finger, and for Your Life!	198
	Healing and Wonder	200
	Pride	201
	Alignment to God	202
	God's Prescription	203
	S.T.O.R.G.E.	205
	My Prayer for Heather	205
	Notes	209
	Bibliography	221