BROTHER WORD
DEREK JACKSON
ISBN#978-446-349-3
April 2006
Warner Books
1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020
Paperback
$12.95 U.S. / $17.95Can.
348 Pages
Fiction, Faith
Rating: 5 Cups

T.R. Smallwood is the pastor of The Hope Springs Church in Sumter, South Carolina. His family has a history of heart disease and he knows he should pay attention to any pain, but when his chest is gripped with a knee buckling pain during a church service, all he can do is pray. That is when a stranger politely asks him if he believes in God’s power to heal his every ailment and then gently touches his chest, instantly healing him

Lynnette Harper is involved in a car accident that leaves her blind and depressed for seven weeks. Believing God is responsible for her eyesight restoration, she attends a healing revival where a woman prays for her healing to no affect. Disappointed and questioning her faith, she stumbles out into the yard of the church where she encounters a soft-spoken gentleman, who offers to pray for her resulting in her being healed on the spot. During that same church service a little boy named Eddie, testifies to being healed at a diner by a stranger just passing through. Who is this man with the power to heal?

T.R. Smallwood, Eddie and Lynnette Harper share a rare gift from Chance Howard, the stranger with the healing touch. Chance, not wanting to cause a scene quietly disappears each time he is called to use his gift, while questioning his inability to heal the one person he loves of above all else. His constant despair over his dead wife consumes his every waking thought and his dreams are filled with sweet memories of his hazel-eyed beauty. His question is always the same, Why could I not save my wife?

Mr. Derek Jackson has written a beautiful book with miracles at every turn. Faith at its best is found within these pages and at times it brought me to tears. In these times of electronic man made wonders, this book reminds us all that there is a power greater than man, still at work and that there are still miracles to experience if you were to only believe in them. This is an uplifting book sure to help restore many a readers’ faith in those things that cannot be explained.

Kathy
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