You're watching too much TV if...

You're watching too much TV if...

• You know all the names of the characters on "Desperate Housewives" but you can't name the thirteen apostles .
• You can guess ending of a "Boston Legal" episode, but you don't remember how the New Testament ends.
• Your cable bill each month is more than your contribution to your local church.

Supplementary reading: Stewardship of possessions

Sacrifical giving needed

"The rich prefer to send token amounts to the poor in [such] a way that the lives of the pleasure-seeking rich are minimally disturbed," says Nepali journalist Kamala Sarup in her American Chronicle article," End of war to protect peace".

Have you seen such behavior? Is it close to home? Do you practice sacrificial giving? Is talking about this uncomfortable? Is this behavior by the rich what Jesus meant by "Whatever you did for the least of these, you did for me"? (See Matthew 25:40)

• What is "sacrificial giving"?