The Truth about Treasure - Matthew 6:19–24
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?
This is Tertullian’s famous question contrasting the difference between God's truth and human philosophy.It highlights the challenge of living in this world with our eyes fixed on other things.
In a similar way, we might ask the same question about rewards: What does money have to do with our eternal destiny?
Indeed, in a world where money motivates, secures, comforts, and corrupts, we are painfully aware of the problems that money (and its lack) bring. Yet, as Jesus instructs us in Matthew 6:19–24, our earthly riches also provide an important avenue for discipleship and increasing our eternal joy. The question is how!
With that in mind, join us today, Wednesday, May 18, as we consider Jesus’s teaching about earthly and heavenly reward at St. Thomas' on the Bayou for Noonday Prayer today at 12:10 p.m. or join all our Monroe Episcopal churches tonight for
