S is for Salt
This is the sermon I preached on Sunday, July 7 at St. Timothy Lutheran Church . The text was Genesis 19:15-17, 24-26. S is for salt! This is the first sermon in a series called "The Good Book: Meeting Our Ancestors in Faith, One Story At A Time." We will be concentrating on God’s interaction with some lesser known characters of scripture. We are looking at some Old Testament characters this month and some from the New Testament next month. Each story is assigned a letter of the alphabet, as in the book, A is for Alabaster by Anna Carter Florence. You are likely familiar with the story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. God made a way of escape for Lot and his family so they would not be destroyed with the people of that city. In the process, Lot’s wife turned back to look while this was happening and was turned to a pillar of salt, hence S is for salt. Interestingly, there is a 65-foot-high pillar of salt at the southern end of the Dead Sea, which from various ang