Check out this podcast by Pastor Trevor Hammack:
Pastor's Million Dollar Home
From Spurgeon's Sermon Notes:
"[Pastor Charles Spurgeon] ... made hundreds of thousands of dollars - and gave it all away.
Redpath offered him one hundred thousand dollars for one hundred
lectures in America. Spurgeon responded, 'No, I am a minister and have
never lectured for money.'"
The Bible Says:
"Lay not up you treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust do corrupt, and where thieves do break through and steal. But lay up your treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not corrupt and where thieves do not break through and steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." - Matthew 6:19-21
and,
"A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; the prophets prophecy falsely and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?" - Jeremiah 5:30,31
Very strongly recommended podcasts:
Are We Preachers or Witchdoctors?
Why Do So Many 'Born Again, Spirit Filled' Women Show Off Cleavage in Church? by Pastor Sean E. Harris
Recommended reading:
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous Laodaceans
Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, by Ronald Sider
That Old Time Religion (my post)
