Text: 1 Timothy 6:17-19 You might think, from many of Jesus’ teachings about money, that it’s a sin to have any to spare. Remember the Parable of the Rich Fool, the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, the warning: “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the…

Text: Matthew 6:19-24 I’ll bet that if you were to have a deep conversation with your average “spiritual-but-not-religious” person on the street, you would find a deep resonance with many of the teachings and values of Christianity — things like loving your neighbor, treating others the way you would like to be treated, helping the vulnerable, respecting others and their unique gifts,…

Text: Matthew 22:15-22 The encounter Jesus had with the Pharisees and supporters of King Herod, in the passage that Heddy read for us, reveals — as do the 800 or so times that money or possessions are mentioned in the Bible — that concerns about the economic dimension of life as are old as human history, and that Jesus was no stranger…