The passage (Mark 12:41–44) about the poor widow who put “everything she had” in the temple treasury was among the lectionary readings a few weeks ago, and it’s a frequent text for stewardship sermons ...

“This poor widow put in more than all the others” (Mark 12:44). Women had no legal status or identity apart from family in Jesus’ time. If a woman lost her husband and had no son, she would ...

The poor woman, as a widow, would have had no source of income after her husband’s death. Therefore the two small copper coins were all she had - and yet she offered them to God. The rich, on ...

The passage (Mark 12:41–44) about the poor widow who put “everything she had” in the temple treasury was among the lectionary readings a few weeks ago, and it’s a frequent text for stewardship sermons ...

The poor widow, the name itself a ... The widow, like Jesus, was offering her poverty to God as her empty hands awaited the rush of grace that is God’s own self-emptying love in return.

And obeying and putting God first is the whole point of Christ’s commentary about the poor widow’s offering. The point of tithing is to put God first in our decision-making and to understand ...

Find today’s readings here. “I tell you truly, this poor widow put in more than all the rest; for those others have all made offerings from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has ...

Mark 12:41-44 reads: "And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Someone attending a church service in Charlotte Sunday left behind an offering that has some recalling the story of Jesus and the widow's offering. The gift was a handful of ...

1 Kings 17:10-16; Hebrews 9:24-28; Mark 12:38-44 (shorter version Mark 12:41-44) Blessed Chiara Badano (1971-1990) was an Italian teenager who passed away just weeks before her 19th birthday after ...

Religion of Friday, 24 June 2016. Source: Joseph Osei Oppong Brenya 2016-06-24 Bishop Onion gives out offering to poor widow and a lady ...