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About Trying To Serve God And Mammon Or the Gospel of Wealth
Well, it’s Scripture quiz time. Question: According to Jesus, as recorded in Scriptures, is it possible to serve both God and Mammon? Answer Yes or No.
Answer: According to Matt 6:24 and Luke 16:13, “Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
Yet, look around you. You’ll find people strongly equating wealth/health/success with righteousness, insinuating that such things automatically follow from righteous lives. But if we read the Sermon on the Mount (part of which is recorded in Matt 6, where the above quote can also be found), it is quite obvious that it is not just that we cannot serve God and mammon, we get several instructions Read more…
The Power of Thought – A Thought of Power
If you’re like me (and I realize that I actually wish most people aren’t – there’s always the individualist that wants to be special), you will have noticed that there are more self-help books than anyone would wish to see. One of the trends in self-help books is promoting positive thinking, starting – in my awareness – from Dr. Eric Berne’s I’m Ok, You’re Ok book-turned-series. I have no beef with the idea itself – that purposefully focusing on positive things benefits you – it is the “magic wand” way that you’re supposed to wield this “positive thinking”. At times it takes on an almost comical form, when you’re told that you can use stuff like that in a purely selfish way. Read more…
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