From the Pastor

“Sometimes we become the flimsies people. We vest our hopes in the ‘fleeting flimsies’ of this life…a new car, new clothes, new equipment. Our search for hope is sufficiently desperate that we cannot see hope in the present, the immediate, or distant future. We do not even see hope beyond the river. When we feel cut off from all of these sources of hope, we move from one fleeting flimsy moment to the next, seeking solace in the material things of this life. The problem of our time is primarily a vacuum of hope, not a focus on materialism. People invest their hopes in material things not because they think there is something enduring in them but because they are looking for hope…even when it is fleeting, flimsy, and momentary.” (From Stewarding the Gift of Hope and Materialism, by Rev. Kennon Callahan, p. 123)

Pastor Callahan is right, I believe. The question of stewardship is not so much about ‘stuff,’ as it is the journey to hope and meaning. So the question for us is this: In what or whom do we place our ultimate hope and trust? How we answer that question will determine the living out of our lives as Christian stewards!

God’s Power and Blessings,
Pastor Tim