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Do You Want To Add Your Two Cents? from the book From Every Angle A Compendium Of Stewardship Resources C. Edward Bowen Mark 12:38-44 |
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One Sunday as a family was driving home from church they all started to make comments about the worship service. The father said, "I sure didn't like the minister's sermon today. It was awfully boring." The mother said: "And how about those hymns they picked out! I couldn't sing any of them." But then the son chimed in, saying: "It wasn't all that bad. After all, what do you expect for a dollar?"
Money is a subject that many people just don't want to talk about. Most people figure that what they do with their money is their business, that it's a private matter. But as you read the Bible, especially the New Testament, you quickly discover that what we do with our money isn't just a private matter. Instead, it's a matter that concerns God very much.
And that's what we see in the reading today from the Gospel of Mark. One day as Jesus and his disciples were sitting in ...