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I was immediately struck in today’s lesson with the question, “How do you know when something- especially money- is becoming an idol?” My tentative answer is, “When you often place that thing, or the pursuit of it, above God or one of His priorities.”  Being excellent in your work is admirable.  When you begin to [...]

Okay, we know we should give — so let’s look at why we should give. When I think about spending money on something, especially something expensive, I start with “want” and then work my way around to “need”, and from “need” I can usually get to “afford”.  I’m pretty good at rationalizing “need” when my [...]

Over the past three weeks we have read and learned about God’s love for us and how we should love others, prayers and praying, and learning about our church family and community. Those were pretty easy topics to read and follow. Why is it that my first turn at writing about the daily lesson has to [...]

While I am for good cause reluctant to attempt literary quotations with this class, this chapter brings to mind the comment to the effect that no man is an island unto himself. And not having the benefit of the Great Liberal Education I cannot attribute the quote accurately, but it seems a good jumping off point [...]

Last week we were reminded that prayer is not all about God hearing us, but our hearing God.  So it is with our “presence”.  Excuse number three, “The church just isn’t meeting my needs”, is one that I’ve both heard and been guilty of.  To paraphrase William McGill, the value of our consistent presence is [...]

Methodists according to Garrison Keiller (Prairie Home Companion) We make fun of Methodists for their blandness, their excessive calm, their fear of giving offense, their lack of speed and also for their secret fondness for macaroni and cheese. But nobody sings like them. If you were to ask an audience in New York City, a [...]