The Seductive Power Of Mammon (S15 Episode17)

A few weeks ago, after my sermon on generosity, a visitor asked me if Nexus was a health and wealth gospel church. I confess, the question left me stunned and embarrassed. How horrible am I at communicating if someone walked away from Nexus thinking that? But, as luck would have it, Jesus returns to money in his Sermon on the Mount, so I have been gifted an opportunity to make it abundantly clear that Nexus is NOT a health and wealth gospel church.

You see, we have entered a new section of Jesus’ most famous sermon. It begins with talk about storing up treasures and why you can’t serve God and Mammon. I can’t wait to get into it, though, the journey will take us on an unexpected course.

So, we will begin by defining our relationship with money, before confronting the three questions no one has ever asked you. Then, we will need to talk sports app gambling, why the actor Jim Carey seems to have lost his marbles, Black Swan Events, a Dragons Den deal made on September 5, 2001, why one particular question at Chats & Chocolate seemed to stump everyone, why I feel the need to make a defense on behalf of the rich, and of course three practices for resisting the Mammon god. Phew, should be a fun, and I hope thoughtful, exploration of our relationship with money.