Generosity 2: Why be Generouse? - Mark 12:41-44, 14:3-9

A girl was given two loonies by her dad. He told her she could do anything she wanted with one, but the other was definitely to be given to God on Sunday at church. The girl nodded in agreement. She asked if she could go to the candy store with visions of all that she could buy with her dollar. She happily skipped toward the store holding tightly the two loonies. As she was skipping along, she tripped and fell and one of the loonies rolled along and just fell right into the storm sewer. Picking herself up, she looked at the dollar still in her hand, then at the storm drain. She said, "well, Lord, there goes your dollar." I want to talk today about generosity and why be generous, out of the Gospel of Mark, chapter 12. Extra reading: 1 Kings 17:8-16 Preacher: Bill Dyck