Stewardship

President Obama is in trouble again. He has been caught on tape, once again, bowing to a foreign head of State. First to the king of Saudi Arabia, now we find him bowing to the emperor of Japan. An editorial in our local paper opined: “Kings and emperors have been treated with courtesy, of course, but to bow is—yes, I’ll say it—un-American.”....
Imagine how upset the pundits would be if they knew that most of citizens of America bow down to foreign powers every day. Constantly.

Today we find Jesus and his disciples watching money drop into the offering can. Jesus sat with his disciples in the temple courtyard, watching the action in the Court of women, where there were 13 offering boxes known as “the trumpets”—folks put coins into large metal trumpet-shaped funnels and listened to the racket as the coins went down. Each box was designated for a different ministry: Food for the priests, oil for the lamps, pew cushions or weed whackers for use around the temple.