Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Blogger

We have heard the passage many times from the gospels, "one cannot serve God and mammon". We have heard it preached on, money. Our parents have talked about it with us, our grandparents have given it to us. Everywhere we look, money is there, and there is simply no escaping it. In Paul Tripp's book Sex and Money, he talks about money in a very healthy way. I think it is very important that he both highlights the good and the bad aspects of money. In this post, I want to highlight why I think his discussion on the good aspects of money are particularly helpful, especially when it comes to dealing with the negative affects.  So often when the subject of money comes to the limelight, it is about the negative uses of it. Greed, theft, all-corrupting wealth, etc. Rarely are the positives taken to light, and even more rarely is it highlighted how the positive aspects of finances affect the amount of negative outcomes.  Two of the aspects of what Tripp says I want to talk about ...

     For the past month, my wife and I have been in a place of discontentment. Not only have we been waiting patiently to move into our new house (which we are now almost done doing), but in the mean time, she also quit her job (which supported us) and was unemployed for about 5 weeks. This was a tumultuous time for our marriage, and it felt like there was more than enough to be discontent about. We were stressed about packing up our entire life and moving it, as well as about finances, since we had no major source of income, amongst other things in life. It truly did feel like we were just waiting for the punches to end.  Thankfully, the Lord is a great provider. He is the Provider (Matthew 6). Through the support of our families prayers, and the few of ours that we were able to squeak out here an there, we were able to get through a time where it felt as if we had no stability. Yet this was not without discontentment playing some sort of role. In Jerry Bridges book...

      In a day and age where information has become so important, I find it interesting how at the same time it as also become less important at the same time. Much of the culture is screaming that truth does not matter, or that the only truth which matters is that which matters to us. To much disappointment, the church followed down the same route of ignorance as the rest of the culture. In a culture where the people only want to promote what matters to them, why does the church seemingly not even want to do that? In a 2014 poll by Pew Research, they found that about 40% of professing Christians believe that reading the Bible is an essential part of what being a Christian means to them. What does this tell us? This tells us that 60% of believers are not interested in the Christian scriptures. They do not feel the need to read them, and therefore are plunging themselves into ignorance.      Why is this significant? This is significant because in order ...