Robert J. Nash

Introduction Thank you, worship team. It is good to gather and praise the Lord.  As we turn to God’s Word, I want to begin with a silly story from decades ago. I won’t say who told it to a loved one. A few decades ago, an elderly gentleman approached the person sitting next to me and asked her to smell his finger.  What would you do if someone asked you that?   I tell my kids never to smell anyone’s finger when presented to them.  To this gentleman’s defense, this person was innocently illustrating the power of ketchup. After cleaning a Northern Pike, your hands stink like fish. If you wash your hands in ketchup, they no longer smell like fish. That makes sense. Right? [Try it out]  I think of it like this. If you stub your toe, you can take your mind off it by accidentally hammering your thumb instead of a nail. You no longer notice the throbbing pain in your foot, but your thumb. A stinking ketchup smell is better than a stinky fish smell. And the ketchup smell is easier to rinse off