Bradley Klontz, a financial therapist, identified four money scripts that keep people poor. One of these he called vigilance. I call this selfishness. Klontz explained this as being overly protective of your money and financial information. Some of you do this to the point of hiding your finances even from your spouse. These selfish financiers …
Being envious of your neighbors’ possessions is the sin of covetousness. The word “covetousness” may have fallen out of popular usage, but this sin is on God’s top ten list of sins to avoid. “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female …
In the 1987 movie, Wall Street, Gordon Gekko declares, “Greed is good!” Most Christians disagree, but their actions belie their belief. They honor those who are financially successful and attempt to emulate them, read their books, and follow their wealth-building principles. Do some Christians worship money rather than God? Greed can be understood as placing …
God has blessed Americans financially when compared to the rest of the world but we often don’t give him the gratitude he deserves. According to the website mic.com, “someone at the poverty line in the United States is in the top 14% of the global income distribution.” But, if you are living at the poverty …
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