Jesus once told a rich young nobleman,

If you want to be perfect, go sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

And come, follow me.

Jesus told his disciples, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

Does this mean it's a sin for Christians to be rich?

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Today is tax day here in the United States, and so we thought it might be a good day to talk about money.

That is, if any of our audience members have any left after they pay the federal government today.

In a previous episode,

you address the so-called prosperity gospel, as is often known, this idea that believers will prosper financially if they're doing God's will. However, there's a flip side to that that has

arisen that I think is partly rooted in an incident that we find in the synoptic

gospels. So Jesus meets a man that has come to be known as the rich young ruler. And the rich

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