Where Do You Get Yours From?
We’re tempted to take our standards from the worldly standards around us.
In a Lancashire town there was a large clock in the window of a clock makers shop. Each day a factory owner would stop at the shop and adjust his watch to the clock. And never would a day go by without him checking that his watch was in time with the clock.
One day he met up with the owner of the watch shop. He told him how much he relied on the accuracy of his clock because the factory buzzer was always timed by his watch. ‘That’s funny,’ said the watchmaker, ‘I always time my clock by your buzzer!’
We are bound to be in error if we take our standards from the world and have no fixed standards.
1500 Illustrations for Preachers & Teachers p267-268Slang for Money
Loot, lolly, dosh, smacker, bob, grand, monkey, pony, tanner, tenner, tilbury, score, Oxford, ‘alf an Oxford, Nicker or Quid, Readies (Nelson Eddy’s), Ton, Century, Skin Diver (or Deep Sea Diver or Sky Diver), Sprarsy Anna, Bullseye, Wicker Basket, Lady Godiva, Aryton Senna, Plenty, Thrifty, One-er, Mother Hen, Archer, Nugget, Plum, Squid, Cock and Hen, Wedge, Bottle, Carpet, Rofe, Jacks Alive, Tom Mix, Nevis, Poorly Fish, Pavarotti (tenor), Rocket, Commodore, Nifty, Bag of Sand, Bernie, Jackson, Long ‘un, Bag (of sand), Dirty, Ching, Maggie, McGiver, Melvin, Browny, Edge Pence, McGarret, Bar, Alan, Spanner, Bobby Moore, Beer Token
Nothing Wrong
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches.
The wrong comes when riches possess men.
Billy GrahamMoney Talks
If money talks – what does it say?
Do we value other people by the size of their pay packet? If so, what does that say about the level of ministerial stipends and payments to lay workers?
Do we measure our committment to a cause by the ammount of money we give to it? If so, what does that say about our committment to the Church?
Spirit Level by Ann Bird, Methodist Publishing p5Bible References
There are approximately 700 direct references to money in the Bible and hundreds more indirect references. Nearly two thirds of the parables of Jesus dealt with the use of money.
Spirit Level by Ann Bird, Methodist Publishing p5Descriptions of Money
Money has been described as power that is portable, transferable and storable.
Spirit Level by Ann Bird, Methodist Publishing p5Love Hate and Money
Christians tend to have a love/hate relationship with money – we hate to talk about it, but talk about it more than any other subject.
Spirit Level by Ann Bird, Methodist Publishing p5What Some People Will Do For Money
What some people will do for money. In an attempt to collect 40,000 euros ($44,780) in insurance payments, a 58-year-old German landscape gardener had a friend cut off his thumb and forefinger with a chainsaw.
According to authorities, the gardener held onto a cutting board while his accomplice, a 28-year-old trucker, sawed off his friend’s fingers. The gardener then threw the severed digits away before claiming money from two different insurance companies. The police arrested both men after one of them was overheard bragging about the ruse.
Both men were convicted in a Wuerzburg, Germany, courtroom. The eight-fingered gardener was given a probationary sentence of one-and-a-half-years, while his chainsaw-wielding accomplice (because of a previous criminal record) received a jail sentence.
Reuters (15-09-03)
Money Will Buy
Money will buy
A bed but not sleep;
Books but not brains;
Food but not appetite;
Finery but not beauty;
A house but not a home;
Medicine but not health;
Luxuries but not culture;
Amusements but not happiness;
Religion but not salvation;
A passport to everywhere but heaven.Original source unknown
What Is A Missionary?
We think a missionary is someone who crosses the sea. Rather, a missionary is someone who sees the cross!
J John – New Wine 1995