“When Milton Bradley introduced The Game of LIFE in 1860, just before the Civil War, the goals of the board game were to attain virtues like honesty, honor, and bravery and to avoid vices such as crime, disgrace, and idleness. Since rebranding in the 1960s, the goal has been simply to get rich by amassing …
Mourning Mammonism
Blessed are those who mourn. It’s impossible to serve the true God and the false god called “Mammon” at the same time, yet we keep trying to do just that. Ouch! Having sanctified, spiritualized, and sanitized Mammonism, a segment of the American Church might be the most culpable of all. Instead of mourning the money-madness …
Confronting Compulsive Consuming (Part 3)
"Beat it! The country's full!" Full of what? "Today consumerism determines what is important. Consuming relationships, consuming friendships, consuming religions, consuming, consuming... We have turned our society into a huge multicultural showcase tied only to the tastes of certain 'consumers', while so many others only 'eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table'.” Pope …
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Confronting Compulsive Consuming (Part 2)
In the last couple of posts we’ve been looking at Jesus’ teaching that is commonly called, “The Parable of the Rich Fool.” Rembrandt was so taken by the story that he rendered it. Watch this brief video explanation of the painting. “What shall I do?” said the rich man who just got richer. Now that’s …
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James on Justice (An Appeal for Classless Christianity) James 4:1-17
This is the 7th in a series of posts on the epistle of James. I put the highlights here in the blog and then unpack it in my podcast. I encourage you to listen to it in order to connect the dots and get the meat of the teaching. A lot of Christians seem to …
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