Handle with Care, Lore Ferguson Wilbert
Handle with Care, Lore Ferguson Wilbert
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Handle with Care
How Jesus Redeems the Power of Touch in Life and Ministry

Author: Lore Ferguson Wilbert

Narrator: Lore Ferguson Wilbert

Unabridged: 5 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/15/2024

Synopsis

Whether it’s fearful side hugs on one side or sexual abuse on the other, both the culture and the church aren’t doing very well with touch. Singles are staying single longer, dating is wrought with angst over purity, and marriages struggle to not interpret all forms of touch as sexual. Even the Bible seems to have endless rules about not touching things. There is simply no place where touch doesn’t seem threatened or threatening. But a curious thing happens when Jesus comes into His ministry: He touches. Jesus touches the sick and the outcast, the bleeding and the unclean. What could it mean for families, singles, marriages, churches, communities, and the world to have healthy, pure, faithful, ministering touch? Somewhere in the mess of our assumptions and fears about touch, there is something beautiful and good and God-given. As Jesus can show us, there is ministry in touching.

About Lore Ferguson Wilbert

Lore Ferguson Wilbert is the author of A Curious Faith and Handle with Care, which won a 2021 Christianity Today Book Award. She writes at lorewilbert.com. Wilbert has written for Christianity Today, Fathom magazine, and She Reads Truth and served as general editor of Broadman & Holman's Read and Reflect with the Classics series. She lives on a river flowing from the Adirondacks in New York with her husband.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Karen on April 04, 2024

Catching up… This is another book that I read a while ago, and I finally have the opportunity to bring my review to Goodreads. This author isn’t afraid to take up sensitive and difficult issues. And possibly even remind the reader that sometimes right versus wrong is often more complicated than a simp......more

Goodreads review by Jackie on December 31, 2008

I haven't read anything by Picoult in a few years, and I had forgotten how brilliant she is at blending multiple voices throughout a hefty, impressively researched novel. This book grabbed me hard and didn't let me go (sleep was lost, bus stops missed, etc). The personal, ethical, moral and social i......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on June 29, 2021

In true Jodi Picoult fashion this book completely took over my life and its still under my skin now. Hated the mother, thought she was a selfish you know what. Didn't agree with the court verdict at all and thought last chapter was unnecessary but hey that's Jodi - she takes you places that makes yo......more

Goodreads review by eRin on April 24, 2009

I have mixed feelings about Picoult's latest novel. On the one hand, I really enjoyed once again the introduction of a controversial topic in mainstream fiction and the presentation of all points of view. On the other hand...well, there are a lot of other hands. Yes, from what I can recall, this is......more

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