Yesterday our evening service theme was Finding Balance in Wealth, one of our Living Today series. I spoke of the dangers of money, remembering Jesus' warning about not being able to serve both God and Money. He is saying that we can 'promote' wealth to godlike status in our lives and worship it. And when we do, we demote God because we can't serve both.
That was yesterday, and today I read that the Vatican has announced seven more 'deadly sins' of which "accumulating excessive wealth" is one. As far as I know, there were no Cardinals listening in to my sermon, but, hey, when Eric preaches, the Catholic Church responds!
Actually there were other interesting new sins in their list including social injustice and environmental pollution. Maybe some more topics in our Living Today series ...
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