St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, Epc

At St. Patrick, we like to point out that Jesus was always eating. It seems he was always going to a feast, coming from a feast, or hosting a feast. I have told skeptics often that, if you read the life of Jesus (or the whole Bible, for that matter) and take note of all the references to food, in the end, while you might not know what it all means, you will have to agree with me that food was a big deal. We could say something similar about money. Jesus talked about money more than almost anything else. He talked about it so much, in fact, that when two brothers saw this young rabbi walking by, they asked him to settle a dispute for them about inheritance. Why? Because Jesus was always talking about money!Money, in a real sense, is an index of the soul. Money can tell you where your heart really is. In that sense, it is a good tool for spiritual diagnostics. For all of us, we have to master money or it will be our master. I remember when Teri and I got our first real job. We were in Greenville, Mississippi, p