Every U.S. presidential election is packed with emotion. This has never been more true than in 2016. Christians respond to this emotion in many ways — some work to ignore the sound bite publicity while others boisterously engage in promoting a specific candidate. There is so much emphasis tied up in talk of winners and losers that it’s easy to forget that a believer’s hope is in God, not an earthly ruler.

In view of the upcoming election, Nazarene Publishing House’s curriculum division — WordAction — has developed a special free lesson for small groups and Sunday school classes. The goal of this lesson is to help us recast our political hope by challenging the claim that history is written exclusively by the powerful. Through a careful study of 2 Kings, we find that trusting God’s faithfulness is plenty political; it has real implications for our communities, the world, and the kind of political hope we can find in it all.

To download this free lesson, click here.

--Nazarene Publishing House