This Sunday is Presbyterians Sharing Sunday and it is a Sunday set aside to remember we are part of something larger than our individual Presbyterian congregations. If you are reading this and are not a Presbyterian but a member/adherent/attender in another denomination I am sure everything will be perfectly familiar to you, if under a […]
Contentment and giving
Contentment is a tricky word. For some people, the connotations of contentment include a fatalistic “settling” for what is and giving up on anything else or anything better. I hasten to point out, this is not what is meant by contentment, especially not when Paul uses it in 2 Timothy. Contentment isn’t settling for what […]
Let’s talk giving. No really, let’s.
There are some topics that preachers aren’t supposed to touch and giving is at least two of them. Tempting as it is to say that I don’t really know why, I do know why. Money is a touchy topic almost everywhere; the church is no exception. For better or worse, and mostly worse, there is […]