What Makes MY Ears Itch?

For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 2 Timothy 4:3

I see this verse used a lot as a condemnation of progressive teaching, especially the current political hot-button topics. But is it aimed at progressive teaching?

But what if I applied it to myself? What do my ears itch for? What do I really wish for?

• Not gay rights—I’m heterosexual.
• Not justice for the poor or oppressed—I’m middle-class and white.
• Not abortions—I’ve never had one, and I never plan to.

So what do MY itching ears want to hear?

• That God wants ME to be rich (or at least upper-middle class), and that I’ll never worry about running out of money.
• That if I work really hard and…