Mark W. Sheehan - Healing Prayer on Holy Ground: A Cardiologist Discovers Gods Presence in the Lives of his Patients

Healing Prayer on Holy Ground is a riveting account of suffering, near-death experiences, healings, and discovering God in the context of illness and trauma. The Sheehans encourage us to believe that healing miracles that occurred in apostolic times can and do happen today. The book challenges us to lay hold, through prayer, of the power of the gospel for the healing of disease, extension of the kingdom, and the glory of the Creator and Redeemer God. Here is a truly encouraging and life-affirming read.

BRUCE DEMAREST, PHD
PROFESSOR OF CHRISTIAN FORMATION
DENVER SEMINARY, LITTLETON, COLORADO

On Sunday morning, December 17, 2006, I was driving to church when a crushing pain seized my chest. I knew instantly what was happening and turned to my wife, Ellen, saying, Sweetheart, I am having a heart attack. Lets go home and get some nitroglycerin. No, she replied, were going to the hospital and get you a doctor.

Ellen slipped behind the wheel, and in record time we pulled up to the Swedish Hospital Emergency Room, where three people were waiting for me at the door. Seconds later, laying on a gurney with a nitro drip in my arm; sensors and wires plugged into my arms, legs, and chest; staring up into a blinding overhead light; still in great pain; I met a remarkable man, Dr. Mark Sheehan, an eminent cardiologist.

Dr. Sheehan had returned from church and had come to the hospital on Sunday morning to see another patient. It was my good fortunea divine appointment?that he was on hand at what was for me a life-or-death moment. With cool professional poise, Doc opened me up, inserted a catheter in my groin and threaded a video camera through a blood vessel into my heart so he could see what had caused my heart attack. As you can imagine, I also watched the video monitor with considerable interest.

It only took a moment for Dr. Sheehan to determine that a crucial blood vessel was shut down and that surgery was the only answer. Thanks to his timely and professional skill, my life was saved and, happily, multiple bypass surgery restored me to full health without lasting damage to my heart.

Since then Ive been seeing Dr. Sheehan professionally, and on Sunday mornings at Cherry Hills Community Church. In addition to being a noted physician and cardiologist, I have learned that he is a medical missionary and a great man of God. But only recently have I discovered that God has given Dr. Mark Sheehan another giftwriting.

Most doctors are not good writers. This should be no surprise since most writers cant diagnose and treat illness. Both medicine and writing are demanding professional disciplines and not many are able to master either one, let alone both. Only a handful of physiciansSt. Luke being the most notable examplecan really tell a story with clarity and compelling power. Mark Sheehan is such a person.

In the book you are about to read, youll be fascinated to learn a little of Marks early life as one of seven wild and wayward sons who boxed, clawed, andfilled the house with pent-up testosterone. Youll learn about how Mark met his wife, Linda, their life together, and the wonderful story of how he came to Christ.

Youll meet Kasey who was clinically dead but came back to life with a remarkable story to tell. Youll learn why only about half of doctors believe in God, but 95 percent of nurses do. You will encounter a penetrating critique of the educational system that turns scientists against God and much more. But the main point of this extraordinary narrative is prayerwhat it is, the remarkable healing power of prayer, and the documented results of doctors, nurses, patients, and families who pray.

This is a wonderful book. Turn off your cell phone and settle in for a great read.

SENATOR BILL ARMSTRONG
PRESIDENT OF COLORADO CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
DENVER, COLORADO

HEALING PRAYER ON HOLY GROUND by Mark W. Sheehan, MD,
with Chris Sheehan
Published by Creation House
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Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, New International Version of the Bible. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, International Bible Society. Used by permission.

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Copyright 2010 by Mark W. Sheehan, MD, with Chris Sheehan
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CHAPTER 1TOUCHED BY GODS GRACE

(January 7, 2010).

(January 7, 2010).

(accessed January 7, 2010).

Bernie Siegel, MD, Love, Medicine, and Miracles (New York City: Harper Collins, 1986), 14.

Linda Sheehan, personal interview, March 2004.

Flix Mart-Ibaez, MD, To Be a Doctor (New York City: MD Publications, 1968), 7.

I bid., 10.

E. M. Bounds, Power Through Prayer (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1993), 11.

Ibid.

CHAPTER 2PRAYER: DEPENDENT HUMILITY BEFORE GOD

, February 8, 2010.

Mother Teresa, Everything Starts with Prayer (Ashland, OR: White Cloud Press, 1998), 15.

(January 12, 2010).

Life Application Bible Study Bible: New International Version (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 1985), 2083.

Rev. Setan Lee, personal interview, April 6, 2002. Also, Rev. Setan Lee, e-mail to the author, February 1, 2010.

Bud Sparling, personal interview, January 2003.

Mother Teresa, Everything Starts with Prayer, 41.

Dr. Don Sweeting, personal interview, July 2003.

Dr. Jim Dixon, personal interview, May 2003.

E. M. Bounds, Power Through Prayer, 14.

Bob Beltz, MD, Transforming Your Prayer Life (Brentwood, TN: Wodgemuth and Hyatt, 1991), 47.

Dr. Sweeting, interview.

Sparling, interview.

Dr. Sweeting, interview.

Ibid.

Linda Williams, personal interview, March 2008.

Thomas Newman, MD, Approaching Prayer in the Medical Setting, The Journal of Christian Healing Vol. 22, No. 1 and 2 (Spring/Summer 2000): 3543.

Thomas Newman, MD, personal interview, March 2008.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Dr. Dixon, interview.

Dr. Sweeting, interview.

Ibid.

Dr. Dixon, interview.

C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (New York City: Scribner, 1942), 176177.

Dr. Sweeting, interview.

CHAPTER 3KASEYS STORY: A NEAR-DEATH
VISION OF THE CITY OF GOD

Kasey, testimony given at Calvary Hill Church.

Kasey, personal interview, 1991.

Ibid.

Dr. Sweeting, interview.

Siegel, Love, Medicine, and Miracles, 172, 25.

CHAPTER 4STEVES STORY: REJECTED BY
GOD, THEN PEACE WITH GOD

Maurice Rawlings, MD, Beyond Deaths Door (Nashville, TN: Bantam Books, 1978), xi.

Ibid., 34.

Maurice Rawlings, MD, To Hell and Back (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1993), 36.

CHAPTER 5HOLY GROUND: THE
ROOM OF THE DYING PATIENT

Philip Yancey, Where Is God When it Hurts? (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1990), 73.

Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, On Death and Dying