God Helps Those Who Help Themselves
Today, Rev. Ron Bartlow continues our series on “Half Truths” based on Rev. Adam Hamilton’s book Half-Truths: God Helps Those Who Help Themselves and Other Things the Bible Doesn’t Say. In this series, we’ll reflect on the nature of Scripture and then consider some of the “myths” that people attribute to the Bible. United Methodists “make sense” of the Bible in that “we take it seriously, if not literally.” The sermon today explores the saying “God Helps Those Who Help Themselves.” Our scripture readings are Psalm 121:1-2, Psalm 136:1, Luke 10:35-37, and James 1:27.