Read the Lectionary Texts Last Sunday, everybody was concerned about the lake. According to the police officer who surprised us all by walking down the aisle after the sermon at the 10 o'clock service, Tellico Lake was rising faster than the dam could spill water. With somewhere between five and nine inches of rain having fallen since the previous Thursday, there was fear that the already-swollen lake could rise another five feet. After church, our family took a ride through several of the neighborhoods bordering the lake and saw lots of flooded docks and backyards. Then we drove over [READ MORE]