Living with 'enough' (proper 21)
1 Timothy 6: 6-19 (also a harvest service & chapel anniversary!) I don’t know if you caught the story in the news this week that it’s 70 years since the first advert was shown on ITV – it was for …Gibbs toothpaste. And watching it, it was really just trying to persuade us to use that toothpaste and not another sort of toothpaste. Since that time, advertising has become a multi-billion pound industry, and we all might have our favourite ad – one that has intrigued us (the mysterious, adventurous figure in black delivering Milk Tray?) or made us sing a long (a million housewives every day pick up a can of beans and say…?) or one that has made us laugh (the Smash aliens?). Adverts are there to make us aware of products, but more than that to make us want them, they make us buy more, eventually they can make us want everything, so that we are deeply dissatisfied with what we have. In contrast to all that, Paul’s letter to Timothy has some sen...