prosperity on Wealth

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...

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?

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

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.

Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.

Leader: Happy are those who find wisdom, those who gain understanding. People: For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold. Leader: She is more preci...

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...

Ancient lens What’s the historical context? Wisdom Song It is not too far a stretch to imagine an eager young person sitting at the feet of a well-seasoned elder and receiving the words of thi...

First Chronicles 4:9-10 could be forgiven for being called the text that roared, once Bruce Wilkinson got his hands on it and wrote a little book called The Prayer of Jabez. This book, which was relea...

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...

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

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...

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

That only is worth my having which I can have forever. That only is worth my grasping which death cannot tear out of my hand.

It is prosperity that we cannot endure.

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.

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

Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by 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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in obedience to him. You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours. And [w]hatever you do, work at it with all your h...

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...