America Thrives Only When We Remember God

About this episode

The episode discusses the dangers of pride in prosperity and the importance of recognizing God's role in blessings.

Prosperity is dangerous when it convinces you that you did it all yourself. We open with a hard-edged warning from Deuteronomy that hits like a spotlight: God gives provision, protection, and opportunity, but pride rewrites the story until a people forgets the One who rescued them. I read the passage slowly, then ask what it sounds like when a nation says, “We’re great because we’re great,” instead of “We’re blessed, so we must be faithful.” From there, we turn to marriage and the kind of lo...

People in this episode

Host: Jesse

Topics covered

• prosperity
• faithfulness
• national identity
• marriage
• pride
• spirituality

Keywords

• prosperity
• God
• faithfulness
• pride
• Deuteronomy
• marriage
• spirituality

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Deuteronomy

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