27 окт. 2018 г. · This week's text has multiple possibilities for preaching, and each of them might be embedded within the larger theme of the reversal of expectations.

The story of the healing of Naaman is about entitlement, power, and pride. It is about the shame attached to a chronic and visible bodily abnormality.

David Guzik commentary on 2 Kings 5, where the leper Naaman comes to Elisha, who instructs him to wash in the Jordan seven times, and Naaman gets healed.

7 апр. 2019 г. · The king of Israel equates the ability to cure leprosy with the ability to give life and rightly ascribes the power of life and death to God.

7 янв. 2024 г. · Those who abandon self-sufficiency and trust instead in God's promises will be saved.

Commentary on 2 Kings 5:1-15. The central character in today's First Reading is Naaman, an army commander from Syria under the king of Aram, probably Ben-Hadad ...

(1.) No man's greatness, or honour, or interest, or valour, or victory, can set him out of the reach of the sorest calamities of human life; there is many a ...

3 нояб. 2014 г. · Today's Bible story is about a Syrian general who receives a surprise that isn't good – he learns he has a terrible illness and then a series of unexpected and ...

27 июн. 2016 г. · We worship a gracious God who treats us not in the way we naturally deserve but, instead, according to God's sometimes mysterious kindness.

Inspire your congregation to heed the call of faith, understand the significance of obedience, and trust in God's promises, just as Abraham did in Genesis 12:1 ...