Pastor Sullivan's Blog

Grace and peace be unto you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. God our Father does not want us to be as the Gentiles who do not know God. Not knowing God or His promise to provide daily bread, unbelievers worry and fret about what they will eat, what they will drink, and what they will wear tomorrow. But not just tomorrow. Most everyone has food, drink, and clothing for tomorrow. Refrigerators and deep freezes are full of food and when they run low, the grocery store has plenty. Closets and wardrobes are full, often overly full, with all sorts of options for what they can wear tomorrow. Today people aren’t so much worried about tomorrow as they are next week, next month, next year, or every year for the rest of their lives. God promises to provide daily bread, not weekly, monthly, or yearly. But the Gentiles don’t believe this so they have to strive after mammon and worry over it. There are two ways they strive for mammon and worry over it. The first is work....

Grace and peace be unto you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. 1)         Jesus tells us that no one can serve two masters. Our hearts aren’t built for that. We can only serve one master. We can only look to one thing to provide for us and go give us everything we need for this life. You cannot serve God and mammon. To serve God means to look to Him in faith and expect Him to give us every good thing at the proper time. To serve mammon means to give our hearts to money, possessions, and the things of this life so that we expect all good things from them. The heart that serves God is confident that God will give daily bread; daily bread being all that we need to support this body and life. The heart that serves mammon frets over how much money is in the bank or how much food is in the cupboard. The heart that serves God is content because it fixes itself solely upon God’s Word and promises. The heart that serves mammon is alw...