Bible and Money

I remember growing up in the same church for almost 20 years and getting a bulletin every week.  It’d show the sermon notes from the previous week along with this week’s notes and a few other things to put on your calendar.  But there was one thing that always caught my attention – the offering [...]

I don’t know what it’s like to herd sheep, and I certainly don’t fully understand what it means to lose one.  But for the crowd around Jesus that day in Capernaum, they understood exactly what it meant to lose something so significant as a sheep. I wonder if Jesus were to revise his parables for [...]

The prosperity gospel (or health and wealth gospel) started as a movement in the 1940s.  It teaches that God wants Christians to be prosperous financially, physically, spiritually, and in every other aspect of life.  The supporters of this gospel have influenced millions of eager listeners who are desperate to hear the promising message of the [...]