Extraordinary Miracles In The Lives Of Ordinary People

Miracles still happen today and can happen to you just as they have for over 70 individuals in the pages of this amazing book. God is actively involved and sending His angels to help people everywhere.

This book is filled with incredible true stories of modern day miracles coupled with powerful insights and life-changing prayers. You will journey with ordinary people who the Holy Spirit uses in extraordinary ways. It will strengthen your faith and provoke you to reach higher for miracles in your own life.

Do miracles still happen today? Are they real? How do they affect the lives of people they touch? Writer and journalist Tom Sheridan explores the intriguing subject of miracles and uses over 100 true-life stories that he has collected and carefully researched over the years to encourage and inspire.

Miracles happened during biblical times, as recorded in the Scriptures, but do they happen today? What is a miracle? A miracle is defined as a "a surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is, therefore, considered to be the work of a divine agency." This book is a documentation of experiences by individuals who believed that these occurrences were the result of divine intervention and who were willing to share their story with the author. Whether such experiences are considered as miraculous or merely a coincidence, a common theme from those who describe these experiences is that they are welcomed, beneficial events in their lives. You are encouraged to read the stories in this book, and by doing so, you can make your own judgement about the reality of miracles in everyday life.

Some people believe that miracles happen, perhaps once in a lifetime, or sometimes on a daily basis; others believe that amazing events are only coincidences. In this book, ordinary people open their hearts to recount miraculous episodes that have taken place in their lives. Some are life-changing, others are meeting a need, others are incredible answers to prayer. If you do believe in miracles, this book will encourage you. If you do not believe, perhaps this book will change your mind. In 'Do You Believe in Miracles', ordinary people tell their extraordinary stories. Be blessed. Inspired by a miracle in her son's life, author Jane Finch has gathered together these testimonies to inspire believers and stir the hearts of unbelievers.

Present reality is transfigured when it encounters another world in this one, disseminating the miraculous in the ordinary every day to effect a process of limitless transformation and possibility. Here is living witness to the bounty of a God who is alive and ever-present in the universe and infinitely available to all, Christian or not. In all his grandeur he appears to the most ordinary, not just the giants of the faith, in his commitment of inextricability from the human race whom he calls beloved. Cross-pollinating the here and now with the extraordinary God of the Old and New Testaments, this chronicle marries memoir and academic research effortlessly. The capacity of God to do absolutely anything at any time for anyone without blowing his own trumpet, both masks and marks the power and extent of his love to improve human circumstances. Over a lifetime of difficulties, dreams, visions, miracles, and doctoral research on God as love itself, the author joins Job whose response to God after a prolonged encounter is, "I know that you can do anything, and no one can stop you" (Job 42:1).

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Christianity Today 2013 Book Award Winner Winner of The Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship's 2012 Award of Excellence 2011 Book of the Year, Christianbook.com's Academic Blog Most modern prejudice against biblical miracle reports depends on David Hume's argument that uniform human experience precluded miracles. Yet current research shows that human experience is far from uniform. In fact, hundreds of millions of people today claim to have experienced miracles. New Testament scholar Craig Keener argues that it is time to rethink Hume's argument in light of the contemporary evidence available to us. This wide-ranging and meticulously researched two-volume study presents the most thorough current defense of the credibility of the miracle reports in the Gospels and Acts. Drawing on claims from a range of global cultures and taking a multidisciplinary approach to the topic, Keener suggests that many miracle accounts throughout history and from contemporary times are best explained as genuine divine acts, lending credence to the biblical miracle reports.