St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, Epc

I don’t know if you have ever encountered pigweed, but it is as awful as it sounds. When I moved out in the country, I brought in truckloads of composted manure from around here. What I wasn’t expecting was all the foreign weeds I would bring in. Pigweed was the worst: it is tough, spreads quickly, and –to make matters worse – it has stickers, so don’t even think about grabbing it and pulling it out with your hands. Besides that, it has roots that go deep. No problem, I thought. I got out my sprayer and carefully went to work on it with Roundup, a herbicide that will kill anything. Well, anything but pigweed. How could that be? Roundup was a farmer’s, and also a gardener’s, dream. Finally, one spray to kill them all. But a funny thing happened along the way from when Roundup first went on the market – pigweed became resistant! Other weeds have done so as well, I hear. Such is the nature of weeds. They seem to find a way to survive. This week we look at the unstoppable nature of the gospel. The early church in