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Worship occurs in many ways. Some people worship G-d through good works. Others worship the Lord through prayer. Many worship the Almighty through singing songs of praise. But more and more people are worshipping G-d through dance. In Dancing for Joy, Silberling, one of the world's foremost experts on worship dance, uncovers fascinating facts about this biblical form of worship. This "Dancing Rabbi," as he is affectionately known in Messianic Jewish circles, brings years of experience in worship dance and teaching worship dance to this book. He offers encouragement to the klutz - the clumsy person - who doesn't think dancing is for him. He also confronts the fallacy that dancing is only for women. He demonstrates how dance has been used through the ages as a way to worship G-d.

Type: Trade Paperback
Number of Pages: 112
Vendor: Lederer Messianic Min.
Publication Date: 1995
ISBN: 1880226626
UPC: 9781880226766
CBD Stock Number: WW226626
Dimensions: 8.50 X 5.50 X .25

More than one million people have Dr. S. I. McMillen's None of These Diseases on their bookshelf. Now Dr. David Stern updates this work on biblical healthcare to address the issues we face today. In None of These Diseases: Healthy Living for the 21st Century, you'll see that the laws of nutrition and purification found in the Bible still apply to our overall well-being. Follow these laws, and watch your health improve! Addresses stress, depression, cancer, AIDS, and more. 240 pages, softcover, Baker.

Paperback (2000)
Fleming H. Revell Company % Baker Bk Hs
ISBN: 080075719X
Dimensions (in inches): 9 X 6 X 3/4

Improve your health and quality of life! After years of searching for answers to his struggle with diabetes, Dr. Russell discovered a successful plan for healthy living—in the Bible. Now he shares these Scripture-based building blocks to help you live a more energetic and dynamic life—by G-d’s design! 220 pages, softcover from Gospel Light.

This is a must read for every Believer who is serious about living a healthy and vigorous life that pleases G-d. Finally, a biblically based book on health and nutrition by a medical doctor.

Format: Paperback, 220pp.
ISBN: 0830718583
Publisher: Gospel Light Publications
Pub. Date: July 1998

Availability: Available to ship on or about 08/20/02.

Toxic Relief
By: Don Colbert, M.D.

Walking in Divine Health: Biblical Breakthroughs
for Preventing Cancer and Heart Disease
By: Don Colbert, M.D.

Eight Ways to Take an Active Role in Your Health
By: Bill Little

Love to Eat, Hate to Eat: Breaking the Bondage
of Destructive Eating Habits
By: Elyse Fitzpatrick

Buyer beware: before purchasing this book, please read the critical review, immediately following this entry.

Although I have no doubts about either their sincerity or their competence within the scope of their own professions, I simply don’t believe that Drs. O’Mathuna and Larimore have done their homework on the subject of alternative medicine, and I have some serious doubts regarding their qualification to have written this book. The biographical information on the back cover of the book says that Dr. O’Mathuna “has his doctorate in medicinal chemistry (scientifically studying herbal remedies).” I have no knowledge of his specific training or experience; however, in general, the field of medicinal chemistry usually studies only isolated extracted components of plants and rarely, if ever, studies the effectiveness of the whole plant, or even the effectiveness of the parts of the plant that are traditionally used in herbalism.

The book provides no information about the authors that would indicate that either of them has any background or training in either natural medicine or Biblical theology, yet they claim to be experts in both fields.

The authors apparently attempt to create serious concern in the mind of the reader that most forms of natural health education is either unsafe or unfit for Bible Believers. Many of the claims they make against natural medicine in this book are simply ridiculous. For example, they “cite” an occasion in which a person allegedly became “demon possessed” by simply visiting a natural health practitioner who did nothing more than examine the the iris of the client’s eye and recommend some treatments (p. 74). Yet they openly ridicule and flatly reject all “anecdotal accounts” of individuals whose lives have been saved, or who have been greatly helped by natural health education and techniques.

The Christian Medical and Dental Association, which is the co-producer of this book along with Zondervan Publishing, is currently promoting this book through a series of radio ads which claim that the book is “Medically Accurate and Biblically Sound.” The unfortunate truth of the matter is that the book is neither medically accurate nor biblically sound. It is only a thinly-veiled “witch hunt” aimed at directly at discrediting those competent and dedicated natural health professionals who offer a safe alternative to the American Medical Association (A.M.A.) whose medical malpractice, by their own statistics (published in U.S. News Online on 4/27/98), is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. The death rate to medical malpractice is approximately equivalent in scale to a fully-loaded Boeing 747 crashing every single day, and (again, according to the A.M.A.’s own statistics) the “average” physician will kill two patients through malpractice during the course of his/her career. Any other company or profession with that terrible a safety record would simply be forced out of business. And it is questionable whether an organization with that kind of safety record is qualified to judge the safety record of natural health professionals who have a near-perfect safety record.

While it is quite true that there are some “natural health” practices that are “New Age” and/or occult in nature, and that these should be carefully avoided by a child of G-d, the authors would have their audience “throw the baby out with the bath water” and avoid virtually all forms of natural health practice that are not specifically endorsed by (and therefore, in business “compteition” with) the A.M.A.

They also make several blatantly false accusations and claims against some forms of natural medicine. For example, on page 236, they say, “Iridologists claim to be able to diagnose the existence of a wide variety of diseases in the organs of the body.” This statement is not true. The truth is that all reputable iridologists will tell you that iridology does not diagnose disease. Bernard Jensen, D.C., Ph.D., is considered “the father of American Iridology.” He writes, “Iridology does not name diseases; instead, it reads tissue condition.” [Iridology Simplified, p. 9; repeated on p. 37; his emphasis.]

As natural health professionals, my wife and I are affiliated with two separate organizations that included literally thousands of born-again Bible-believing Christians who, on a daily basis, provide medically safe and Biblically sound natural health services to tens, or perhaps even hundreds, of thousands of people who are either not satisfied with the care they are being provided by their medical doctor, or they have determined that they wish to take charge of and be actively involved in their own health maintenance.

Let the reader decide whether or not I am qualified to write such a critical review.

I worked in “traditional” (allopathic) medicine for about 14 years. Although I am not a physician, I have been trained and certified as a technician in electrocardiography, electroencephalography, and neuro-psychiatric technique, and have also worked as an emergency room supervisor, nursing instructor, operating room technician, and x-ray technician. I have also served as a health research consultant to the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Blindness (part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health) and to the Government of Guam’s Department of Health (including Project Head Start and Guam Memorial Hospital).

I am a seminary-trained (Th.M. [Master of Theology], Th.D. [Doctor of Theology], and D.Min. [Doctor of Ministry]) theologian and Evangelical Christian (now Messianic Jewish) pastor/teacher with over 30 years of pastoral ministry experience. I taught graduate-level Theology (masters and doctoral programs) in a west-coast seminary and also served as that school’s Academic Dean. In addition to my seminary training, I am currently a Certified Natural Health Professional, and I am currently studying toward a Naturopathic Doctor degree from a Christian college of natural health. Over the past six years I have attended well over five hundred hours of classroom instruction and seminars in numerous areas of Natural Health, including nutrition, herbalism (Western, Chinese, and Ayurvedic), iridology, kinesiology, bodywork, electromagnetic therapy, cranial alignment therapy, muscle-response testing (M.R.T.), Contact Reflex Analysis (C.R.A.), acupressure, body reflexology, aromatherapy, bioenergetic analysis, and others (for definitions of these terms, click here). And I have only just begun the studies that are required to become truly competent as a Natural Health Care Provider.

By contrast, throughout the course of their entire professional training, most medical doctors (M.D.’s) have only a single semester of nutritional training (only about 50 hours of total classroom time) and absolutely no exposure at all to the so-called “natural,” “alternative,” or non-allopathic treatments that Chiropractors (D.C.’s), Osteopaths (D.O.’s), and Naturopath’s (N.D.’s) practice. (Allopathic medicine is the form of medicine practiced by M.D. members of the A.M.A.)

Let the reader understand that I am not anti-physician. What I am against is that most allopathic physicians would have the public believe that they, and they alone, somehow have the only answers to good health, and that they should be blindly followed because they have “M.D.” after their names. I am against the idea that “Truth” should be rejected just because it was not dispensed by an M.D. And I am against the idea that G-d’s children should commit the kind of idolatry that has led a great number of physicians to view themselves as deity to be blindly followed by those to whom G-d has given minds that are capable of accumulating information and the indwelling Holy Spirit to help them use that information wisely. I am particularly opposed to those who promote this kind of idolatry under the guise of providing “Biblically Sound” information.

There are a large number of very good, “Medically Accurate and Biblically Sound” books about Natural Health that are available. This just does not happen to be one of them. For more “Medically Accurate and Biblically Sound” information about Natural Health, please visit this ministry’s Natural Health website at www.theherbdoc.com.