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All pastors have their favorite stewardship thoughts.  Here are a few of mine.

Many people are familiar with 300, the recent movie about King Leonidas and the 300 Spartans who took their famous stand againist tens of thousends of Persians at the battle of Thermopylae.  The Spartans were excellent warriors because they focused on their role as soldiers to the exclusion of all else.  Part of their training for the military involved learning to disdain material goods.  Accordingly, Lycurgus, the Spartan lawgiver, decreed that there would be no gold coins in all of Sparta.  Rather all gold was to be in the form of nails.  This way, any Spartan soldier attempting to hoard pockets full of gold would be sorely pricked in the process.  In truth, a life spent pursuing the material can prove painful in the long run.  Be careful not to become too enamored with the things of this world.  Focus rather on the spiritual realm and the eternal struggle we have been called to pursue.  Here alone will we find true victory and true fulfillment.