On Sunday, May 16, we are going to try something we haven't done before. We are going to have a healing service as part of our worship service. The deacons and I are confident that such a service can meet several needs we have in our congregation where healing is needed. We often think strictly of physical illness or disability when we think of healing.
Healing is for such maladies.
Some members suffer from chronic conditions some of which are annoying at best and others which are debilitating at worst. When Jesus was on earth, he healed people from all kinds of sicknesses and different diseases. He healed people who were acutely and gravely ill, such as the centurion's servant. He also healed people who were chronically ill, such as the woman with the hemorrhage. He healed disabled people such as the man with the withered hand.