Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

God’s salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free gift.

Money is one of the most common counterfeit gods there is.

If your identity and security is in God, it can’t control you through worry and desire.

“Trusters of money” feel they have control of their lives and are safe and secure because of their wealth.

For Jesus, greed is not only love of money, but excessive anxiety about it.

and the freedom from counterfeit gods—to follow the call of God when times seem at their darkest and most difficult.

As we look at him and rejoice in what he did for us, we will have the joy and hope necessary—and

Sometimes God seems to be killing us when he’s actually saving us.

As many have learned and later taught, you don’t realize Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have.