Read the Lectionary Texts Well, I finally caught him. The big one that - for so many years - kept getting away. My son Peter and I were down the lake a ways, flipping purple-colored, grape-flavored plastic worms into some weed patches. All of a sudden, this monster of the deep hit mine, and started to run with it. I hauled back, setting the hook, and the battle was on. He had it in his mind to go deep and bury himself in the weeds, and I had it in my mind to pull him up into that little Sears johnboat of ours [READ MORE]

A Sermon by The Rev. Dr. Stephen K. Nash   Read the Lectionary Texts   In the twelfth chapter of his Letter to the Romans, Paul preaches his own version of the Sermon on the Mount.  Any discussion of distinctively Christian ethics must begin with those words of Jesus.  So Paul, in twelve short verses turns out thirty instructions, all of them meant to put flesh on the bones of Christ’s one commandment to love. Paul had good reason for going to so much trouble.  The church in Rome was splitting apart in at least two different ways.  Inside, [READ MORE]