The Cultural Idols Shaping Our World

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The Cultural Idols Shaping Our World

Idolatry is not limited to statues, temples, or false gods from the ancient world. Anything we look to for ultimate identity, meaning, security, value, or satisfaction can take the place that belongs to God alone.

In This Episode

  • What Scripture teaches about modern idolatry
  • How good things can become ultimate things
  • Why success, comfort, relationships, and freedom can become idols
  • How idolatry reshapes our priorities, fears, and desires
  • How Christians can identify and turn from idols of the heart
  • Why God alone provides lasting meaning and satisfaction
“You shall have no other gods before me.”
Exodus 20:3

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