The gospel is the church’s most precious gift to cherish, protect, and pass on. We must never stop checking what we believe and preach and then ask the question: Is this the gospel?

How can we free ourselves from the clutches of self-wealth idolatry? Can we be ready to act responsively and responsibly towards those around us experiencing genuine hardship?

Stripping away our source of income, or some false sense of security, never takes us out of the plans God has for us.

A bittersweet reflection.

There is no way to become spiritually mature unless we commit our finances to the Lord. We need to be intentional and diligent about it.

Crises force us to reconsider our ways. When we’re reminded of how little control we have over our circumstances we realise the most significant decision is choosing between anxiety and dependence.

Let’s be honest! Money is powerful. It is insidious: it grabs our attention, it seduces us, it claims our love and allegiance. Money needs to be tamed: we need to make money serve people.

We deal with money every day, one way or another. How we relate to money and possessions is a spiritual matter. It truly is a heart issue.

How are we to understand the ways of the mammon? In dethroning mammon, Justin Welby gets to the crux of the argument. This is a fantastic book - an easy recommendation - and a worthy read for us all.

One of the most difficult questions facing Christians today is that of the proper attitude toward possessions. What should we do on behalf of the poor? What should we do with our own possessions?

Integrating generosity into our lives is fundamentally a heart issue. The way we relate to money and possessions is a spiritual matter. How we use our resources reveals our priorities.

Generous living is living a sacrificial life. A life of joy and ultimate freedom: not merely giving enough so we have a clear conscience, but willing to let go of anything that God might ask us to.

Justin Welby suggests that Mammon has a powerful, persuasive hold over our imaginations. Whilst Mammon preaches an economy of exchange and equivalence, God’s economy is built around abundant grace.

In the contemporary world, political ideas often develop into ideologies, or "isms", such as capitalism, liberalism, socialism or communism etc. The economy is often at the centre of these "isms".

Putting too much weight on 'earning' as one of the purposes of work, the risk is to fail to hear God's calling for us. This pressure to earn precludes many possibilities of work for God's kingdom.

All wealth ultimately belongs to God – we are always stewards, never owners. The existence of poverty is the result of our individual and collective brokenness, not God’s failure to provide.

The command to love the neighbour, and humankind’s dominion over the created order: the relevance of higher-level Derived Social Principles.