Speaker: Aaron Beane Date: December 29, 2024 QUOTES: Tim Keller, Counterfeit Gods: "According to the bible, idolaters do three things with their idols: they love them, trust them, and obey them. Lovers of money are those who find themselves daydreaming and fantasizing about new ways to make money, new possessions to buy, and looking with jealousy on those who have more than they do. But trusters of money feel they have control of their lives and are safe and secure because of their wealth." John Newton, in a letter to Thomas Jones: "Dear friend, there are abominations which, like nests of vipers, lie so quietly within, that we hardly suspect they are there till the rod of affliction rouses them: then they hiss and show their venom. This discovery is indeed very distressing; yet, till it is made, we are prone to think ourselves much less vile than we really are, and cannot so heartily abhor ourselves and repent in dust and ashes."