Cost of Living

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living."

All Flesh Is as Grass

Consumerism is fed by a desire to forget our mortality.

Dead Giveaway

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

Just One More Consumer Commodity

I often visit newcomers in town and find them to be church shopping. They want to know what they can get out of church. Churches are one more consumer ...

More Than an Economic High

Our whole society ... is focused on the celebration of Christmas. With the excessive commercialism which begins in our country immediately after Halloween ...

Pay as You Go

Most of us would be willing to pay as we go if we could just finish paying for where we've been.

No "No" in TV Land

Many of our adolescents and young adults cannot "just say no" to drugs because their whole approach to life has been shaped by television, the ...

The Road Less Traveled

Within the New Testament, there is no indication that Christians should expect to be healthy, wealthy, and successful in this present age. ... Christ ...

Frozen in Greed

Clovis Chappell wrote in his book of sermons Feminine Faces:

"When Pompeii was being excavated, there was found a body that had been embalmed by the ...

Miracle Renewed

It would be easy ... to criticize ... the waste, the trash, the sad attempt to buy affection in a splash of wild extravagance. Yet, for all of that, this ...