City On A Hill

Luke 16:1-9

This parable has got to be one of the most confusing. What do you think it means? I think it means that one should use money in ways that it benefits oneself best, one should seek the highest pleasure that can be gained by using money (including unrighteous money), which according to Jesus is to secure eternal friends. We shouldn't settle with the temporary but rather we should prove faithful in the little so that we will be entrusted with "true riches". We should be Christian Hedonist that uses every means necessary, money, time, resources to pursue our happiness in God.

1 Timothy 6:1-10

He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions,5 and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.

Isn't that interest, who is the person in question arguing with? An unbeliever, one who is depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, why is he arguing with him? to puff himself up, he is being self-righteous imagining that godliness is a means of gain. What's more interesting is that non-Christians get that and sometimes us Christians don't, let us not be guilty of arguing with unbelievers we are to share the gospel and move on, there is little room for anything resembling a quarrel, why - because the holy-spirit must regenerate their minds and reveal the truth of Jesus to them - before the gospel call is effective. Remember, it's a heart change not intellectual assent.

Nehemiah 1-2

Proof-positive that God answer prayer and desires contrition.

Brian