Love is in the Air. . .Where is your Treasure?

Sunday kicked off the new sermon series, "Love is in the Air..." by focusing on our treasures.  Pastor Tommy referred to the History Channel's "American Pickers" in his sermon on Treasure Hunters.  It has become one of our favorite shows on TV.  Basically, Mike and Frank travel the U.S. digging through the dusty, rusty belongings of collectors.  I use the word "collectors" carefully since another TV show, TLC's "Hoarders: Buried Alive" would call most of these people hoarders.

The Bible warns us about loving things but it is so easy to get "Junk Drunk," as Mike calls it, in our materialistic society.  We end up loving things and using people instead of using things and loving people.  On another TV show, Style's "Clean House," there was a man who had a collection of car magazines that had taken over the living room.  It was a point of contention between him and his wife.  When the show's host asked him to choose between his magazines and his wife, he had to think about it a long time -- way too long.  Pastor Tommy, I am so glad you chose Margaret over the Mustang.  And, Jerry, I promise to never choose the blue plate collection over you.