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Showing posts with label Money. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Money. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Turning Point USA ignores the warning of Matthew 6:24

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The money cannon being worked by 'Bang Girls' at the Turing Point USA conference Every organization needs funding.  Compassion Inter...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2020

An unhealthy overemphasis on politics

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  I'll admit, I've been sucked toward the rabbit hole of politics more in 2020 than any year since my youthful fascination decades a...
Friday, November 8, 2019

Paula White: Charlatan, Heretic, and White House employee - terrifying in any administration

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Paula White-Cain, the famous Prosperity Gospel huckster who has made millions of dollars telling people to send her money so that they will ...
Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Uncontrolled Capitalism is as Anti-Christian as Communism

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What is the philosophical basis of  the economic system of Capitalism?  In simple terms: People do what is in their own self-interest, allow...
Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Sermon Video: "My house will be called a house of prayer" Matthew 21:12-13

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When Jesus entered the outer court of the Temple, after his recent triumphal entry into Jerusalem, he encountered something that had no plac...
Friday, October 27, 2017

Commercialism and Politics interrupt worship at a Baptist Church

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It saddens me that some of the most head-shaking things that happen within the "church" in America today happen at Baptist Churche...
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Sermon Video: The Gospel vs. the Love of Money - Acts 19:21-41

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Since the beginning, the desire to have more than we already have has led many to greed which often manifests itself as a love of money.  Wh...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Not a dime for politics, not ever.

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There is talk in the air of changing or eliminating the 1954 Johnson Amendment, a provision in the U.S. tax code which bars non-profits (inc...
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Sermon Video: Pride in Humble Circumstances - James 1:9-12

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Continuing his discussion on perseverance, James brings the factors of wealth and poverty into the discussion by saying that the poor believ...
Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Sermon Video: "No servant can serve two masters" - Luke 16:1-13

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In a parable given to his disciples, Jesus tells a story where a corrupt business manager is unexpectedly commended after having defrauded h...
Tuesday, October 6, 2015

The peril of fear mongering among Christians

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In a recent interview with Time  magazine, the president of Faith and Action, Rob Schenck, a noted anti-abortion activist, spoke of the dang...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Sermon Video - "Who will get what you have prepared for yourself?" Luke 12:13-21

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In this passage, Jesus uses the occasion of an inheritance dispute that is brought to him to instead give a warning about the perils of gree...
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Clash of Clans, sub-prime mortgages, and Dave Ramsey

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Stay with me for a minute as I explain why a game that I play on my iphone is connected in my mind to the financial meltdown that happened i...
Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Avoiding the fool's bargain

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While working on my sermon for this week, I was reading Matthew Henry’s commentary on II Chronicles that was written in 1708.  The text tel...
Thursday, January 23, 2014

The lust of humanity for gold that glitters

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There's a line in The Lord of the Rings that reads, "all that is gold does not glitter" which is Tolkien's rearranging of...
Monday, November 28, 2011

"They never stop to ask if they should do something"

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Those are the words of Michael Crichton expressed through the character of Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park .  Malcolm is explaining his objecti...
Thursday, November 10, 2011

You have to do more.

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The philosopher Edmund Burke wrote, "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing ".   It seems that ...
Friday, February 25, 2011

Sermon Video: James 1:9-11, "the value of being rich"

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This sermon is from James 1:9-11 and deals with the temporary nature of wealth along with the hidden value of being poor. to watch the appx...