The scripture has lots of warnings against idolatry.

What does that look like today?

Here's Dana Gresh.

You name it, we can make an idol of it.

We will carve it into something we can worship with our time, with our talent, and with our money.

I can make my own God.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for September 29, 2020.

I'm Nancy DeMoss Wagamuth.

You know, here in the West, we may be tempted to assume that idols are not as prevalent

today as they were in the

ancient world. After all, the religious landscape of our lives is not strewn with golden idols.

Well, it's true that, at least in most parts of the United States, we don't see temples on every street

with carved idols. But on today's program, we're going to examine five ways that idolatry may be entering into your life through the doorway of pride.

Now, if you're tempted to turn this program off right now, let me do you a favor and say stop.

Pride is deadly.

It will kill your desire to cry out to God and to submit to Jesus.

But here's the thing. As dangerous as pride is to your spiritual life, it's pride that makes it difficult

to see pride in our own lives. Today, my co-host, Dana Gresh, is going to take five characteristics of an

idolatrous group of people in the ancient Middle East, the Babylonians, and help us consider

whether these qualities could be true of us. Dan is continuing today in her series on the

book of Habakkuk. This Old Testament book helps us to know how to talk to

God when we're living through devastating and difficult times, and how to walk by faith when it

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