Idols of the heart

Last week I listened to C. J. Mahaney’s three-part series “The Idol Factory.” I highly recommend the entire series (though I thought the first two were the strongest). A couple of statements about idolatry from those sermons — “Husband and wife — you desire to have a spouse that relates to you with respect, etc. […]

Consumerism and idolatry

In an article for Leadership Journal last year, Skye Jethani makes an important distinction between consumption and consumerism — Christian critiques of consumerism usually focus on the dangers of idolatry—the temptation to make material goods the center of life rather than God. This, however, misses the real threat consumerism poses. My concern is not materialism, […]