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The seductive power of wealth is a rejection of faith
The parable of the rich man and Lazarus is told to people mocking Jesus for inviting them to love God more than they love mammon.
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On Not Reading it Wrong — choosing God over money
Some of Jesus’s parables can be confusing to modern readers, expecting something that looks like God rather than the opposition.
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This is not the Way of Love
The challenge Jesus offers us is to look past our assumptions about sin and tragedy and instead toward what we do to each other.
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Wealth is always relational
When talking about God’s blessing, we are necessarily confronted with the idea that we always seem to start talking about possessions.
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The matter of faith
When a man asks Jesus for assurance of salvation, Jesus ties his desire of assurance to his wealth—a message that scares us, too.
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Breaking up with the money god
When we talk about the problem with money, we need to dig into why we can’t trust in money to solve all of our problems now.
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About the Money—for Proper 23B
The challenge of Jesus’s teaching with the pious young man is that Jesus condemns wealth in a way few Americans are willing to accept.
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Wealth—how much is too much?
The challenge of wealth for people in the United States is that we’d rather fight about what it implies about the person rather than their behavior.