Are you in need of healing? The Bible speaks many times of how God works to heal – healing bodies, minds, and hearts, and healing relationships and whole communities.
One common place of healing in the Bible is at a river or a pool. The image of flowing water is a poignant symbol of how God works to heal – God’s grace flows powerful and free, cleansing, refreshing, transforming, and renewing. On our part, we need to be receptive to those healing streams; and so the Bible uses such images as “wading in the water” to speak of how we are invited to immerse ourselves in God’s grace. May we “come to the waters” today and let God’s Spirit flow in us!
God’s grace flows powerful and free, cleansing, refreshing, transforming, and renewing. Share on XCan you find it? The recorded version of the sermon, “River of Healing,” has a small error embedded in the telling of one of the Bible stories. There is a name that is wrong. (The error is in the recorded version only, not in the print version of the sermon). Test your Bible knowledge, and email us if you can identify the mistaken reference!
Sunday’s Scripture Readings:
II Kings 5:1–14
Isaiah 1:16–17
Matthew 3:4–6, 13–17
John 5:2–9
