Today is Stewardship Sunday. It marks the beginning of our Every Member Canvas campaign for financial support of our church's ministry. It will culminate next week on Loyalty Sunday with our members affirming their loyalty to Christ through their membership vows and their support of His Church.

I am well aware that for the pastor to speak about stewardship, especially as it may relate to money, makes some members a little up tight, nervous and uneasy. Uneasy, perhaps because things are getting a bit too personal, for to tamper with our money is to tamper with our lives, and we don't like that. Uneasy, perhaps because we've always been able to keep religion and money kind of separated into two different categories, and we'd like to keep it that way. Uneasy, perhaps because religion is supp…