prosperity on Poverty

Russell Conwell, founder of Temple University and half the namesake of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, was an American minister who began his ministry in 1880. While he wrote and preached countle...

We are rich only through what we give: and poor only through what we refuse and keep.

Almighty and most merciful Father, giver of every good and perfect gift, we give you thanks for blessing us so richly with your good Word and the holy Sacraments, and supplying so abundantly all our d...

Preaching Angles Having celebrated Christ’s reign on Christ the King Sunday in November and having sung (most likely) to the “King of kings” (forever and ever!) in the Hallelujah Chorus at some poi...

Context Psalm 72 is one of two psalms (along with 127) that is attributed to Solomon, and it fits within a slightly larger group of psalms traditionally considered “royal psalms,” perhaps used as cor...

The poorest man I know is the man who has nothing but money.

Ultimately it is economic prosperity which makes possible for billions of dollars to be devoted to the less fortunate.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

It is prosperity that we cannot endure.

To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world.

Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity only one.

A friend cannot be known in prosperity. An enemy cannot be hidden in adversity.

For a hundred that can bear adversity there is hardly one that can bear prosperity.

People are usually better in adversity, than prosperity. A prosperous condition is not always so safe. True, it is more pleasing to the flesh - but it is not always best. In a prosperous state, there ...

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

Riches may leave us while we live, we must leave them when we die.

For what good would their prosperity do them if it did not provide them with the opportunity for good works?

Material success is no measure of spiritual health. Nor is apparent affluence any criterion of real godliness. And it is well for us that the Shepherd of our souls sees through this exterior and takes...

The prosperity gospel is a theodicy, an explanation for the problem of evil. It is an answer to the questions that take our lives apart: Why do some people get healed and some people don’t? Why do som...

The soul is a spiritual thing, riches are of an earthly extract, and how can these fill a spiritual substance? How man does thirst after the world, but, alas, it falls short of his expectation. It can...

Religion begat prosperity and the daughter devoured the mother.

There's no need to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Persecution has never hurt the church ... only prosperity.

Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that is "finding his place in it," while really it is finding its place in him.

I shovel [money] out, and God shovels it back...but God has a bigger shovel!

Other major world religions are still centered in the same general geographic area from which they originated except for Christianity. Even more intriguing, the center of Christian growth continues to...

This prayer may be offered with or without the congregational response. Due to its length, consider using two or more liturgists to lead the prayer. VOICE ONE: God of Creation, God of Life, In your j...

Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking, it is not well for the children that...

Pastor: The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God’s creation: “I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you...