The Contented Fisherman

In Our Daily Bread, Philip Parham tells the story of a rich industrialist who was disturbed to find a fisherman sitting lazily beside his boat.

"Why ...

The Paradox of Giving

The more you have the less you can give, and the less you have the more you can give.

The Non-Profit Church

The purpose of the church, financially, is not to accumulate as much money as possible but to give away as much as possible.

The Essence of Life Today

The essence of life today is not having--it is having to have.

Wealth Doesn't Equal Blessing

There is no way, if you take the whole counsel of God's Word, that you can equate riches or material things as a sign of God's blessing.

The Worst Hypocrisy

What was so bad about [the Pharisees'] hypocrisy? If we think of it as consisting merely in their teaching or pretending one thing while in fact practicing ...

Poisoned by Greed

Recently I laid a small circle of poison around a hill of stinging ants. Thinking the tiny granules of poison were food, the ants began to pick them up ...

Statistic: Credit Card Debt

In 1995, the average amount of credit card debt per cardholder: $3,900

In 2004, the average amount of credit card debt per cardholder: $9,312

In 2018, the ...

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 ...

When Desire Becomes Coveting

When does proper desire become coveting? I think we can put the answer down simply: desire becomes sin when it fails to include the love of God or men. ...