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A Journey to Wholeness: The Gospel according to Naaman’s Slave Girl is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book focuses on biblical reconciliation, both in its primary sense (as Paul uses it) and in a secondary sense, insofar as it touches on reconciliation between races, rich and poor, Jew and Gentile, the powerful and the weak, and between other alienated groups. The focus of the book is Naaman, a Syrian general, and his Jewish slave girl, whose simple testimony helped to bring about a great...

The little slave girl’s enthusiastic referral of her Syrian master to the prophet Elisha started some invisible but powerful wheels in motion. The story doesn’t end at the conclusion of 2 Kings 5, nor with Gehazi, and not even with the closing of the Old Testament. Jesus himself almost lost his life the first year of his ministry because of her testimony. Jesus was about thirty years old when he began his earthly ministry. The Gospel of Luke records
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