Would you get an IRS tattoo to avoid taxes? This is Dr. Jim Denison's The Daily

Article podcast for Monday, April 15th, 2019. Welcome to Tax Day. What would you do to avoid

ever paying taxes again? 24% of Americans would get an IRS tattoo. 36% would move to a different

country. 15% would take a

vow of celibacy, and 11% would name their child taxes. Our angst over April 15th is understandable.

57% of us think our current tax rate is too high. Only 34% think it's just right. Surprisingly,

9% of us think it's too low. Here's the good news.

Tomorrow is Tax Freedom Day. If you allocated every dollar you earned so far this year to pay your

federal, state, and local taxes, your debt would be satisfied tomorrow. Everything you make

beginning Wednesday would then be yours. In what the New York Times is calling a stirring triumph, Tiger Woods won the Masters yesterday

at the age of 43.

President Trump called the win a fantastic life comeback.

President Obama described it as a testament to excellence, grit, and determination.

While Woods' fifth victory at Augusta Nationalist historic, it didn't change history for most of us.

That's because, unless you're involved with golf professionally, the game is a hobby for you.

And hobbies are for our discretionary time.

For most people, they are ancillary to our lives, not central to them.

Unfortunately, many Americans view following Jesus in the same way, as a hobby for those who choose it.

To change metaphors, we see our relationship with God in the same way we see our relationship with the government.

We give him what he requires, so he will do what we want him to do.

C.S. Lewis described our compartmentalized lives this way.

The ordinary idea which we all have before we become Christians is this. We take

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