"healing" Tagged Sermons
The blind man Christ heals in two stages, in Mark 8, has drawn plenty of liberal interpretation eager to explain away the strangeness of a healing that doesn’t work the first time. Read redemptive-historically instead, Christ’s second touch gives real, permanent life, not a partial fix. That permanence is bound up with an ongoing, penitent state, not a single moment of healing.
God works through deeply flawed men like Ahab and Eli for both good and evil, a pattern that runs through the whole Old Testament. Eli, despite his failures, mediates for Hannah in a way that pictures Christ’s own mediation. The woman healed by touching Christ’s garment in Luke 8 answers, centuries later, the same kind of desperate faith Hannah shows here.