Visit the Sick
Copyright © 2014 by Brian Croft
Previously published in 2008 by Day One Publications under the same title.
ePub Edition © March 2014: ISBN 978 – 0 – 310 – 51715 – 3
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Croft, Brian.
Visit the sick : ministering God’s grace in times of illness / Brian Croft.
p. cm. — (Practical shepherding series)
ISBN 978 – 0 – 310 – 51714 – 6
1. Church work with the sick. I. Title.
BV4335.C76 2014
259'.4 — dc23
2013042722
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