New Rockford Transcript - Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883

by Rev. Doug Nemitz

First Lutheran Church

New Rockford 

 When I think about our New Testament reading for Sunday, Sept. 29 (1 Timothy 6:6-19), and the ever widening gap between the wealthiest Americans and the poorest, it seems to me that the Christian faith always lives in uneasy tension with wealth. On the one hand, we who follow Jesus recognize that wealth could be seen as a genuine gift...