Mount Calvary Sermons

18TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST    MATTHEW 22:15-22   You can say it with flowers, you can say it with a smile.   You can say it with chocolates or cards.  And you can say it with coins.  Larry Gasper of Redding, California, decided on the last of these.  Larry had got a bit behind in paying his property taxes.  In fact he owed the Shasta County tax collector $12,658.  So, just as the authority was planning to auction off his house, Larry made a trip to the tax collector’s office and paid his bill.  In coins.  In a wheelbarrow and two large buckets.  “It took four of my staff a little over two hours just to count all the cash,” says Mary Axelson, chief deputy tax collector; “and then it took probably another hour to get it bagged up to go to the bank.”  The loss of 12 staff-hours, however, was better than the alternative, thinks Mary.  She says, “I could have turned him away. There is a taxation code sec