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A sermon on the Feast of St Jerome

II Timothy 3:14-17 and Luke 24:44-48

There’s a wonderful exchange between two young boys at the beginning of Walk the Line, a 2005 movie about the life of Johnny Cash.  Johnny (nicknamed “J.R.”) and his older brother Jack have just crawled into bed.  Jack is reading his Bible and J.R. turns to him and asks, “How come you’re so good? …. You know every story in scripture.”  “Look, J.R.,” Jack replies, “If I’m going to be a preacher one day I got to know the Bible front to back.  I mean, you can’t help nobody if you can’t tell them the right story.”[i]

“You can’t help nobody if you can’t tell them the right story.”

Jack is already wise enough to know that reading and hearing the Word is essential to Christian faith and worship. The stories contained in Scripture form the foundation of our faith and steady us amidst all the “changes and chances of this life.”  They shape and transform us, and equip us to live for God. Read More