My father is headed on a company trip to Las Vegas today, I’m sure you know the place. Him preparing for his trip got me thinking… “How is Vegas doing in these economic times?”

Turns out that it is not doing too hot. With housing prices in Vegas dropping to about half of their value, A once secularly praised city of wealth and sin has been severely wounded in America’s economic downturn. What does this mean? Some may speculate that Mammon is dead. Completely dead? Never, unfortunately. Suppressed? I think so.

So for those of you who don’t know, Mammon is a word that is thought to have originated from the early Chaldeans. The most basic meaning of the word Mammon meant ‘wealth’. Not just wealth, but personal glorification through riches, giving the word an evil nature.

Throughout the Old and New Testament times, the meaning of the word was preserved. Mammon was object and idea. The personification of Mammon did not happen until around the middle ages, where bishops would condone the poor for earning money. The act of and temptation of the love of money then took responsibility in fictitious god Mammon.

So when I speak of Mammon, I speak of money. You can now see the point I am getting to… We all live in a world where false deity’s such as money or sex have been increasingly growing in membership. These are the top religions in the world! When I see something like this recession happening in America, I see a great feeling of disappointment in these worshipers of false idols. Because Mammon has failed them.

Has Mammon fallen?

Spiritual warfare is prevalent, it is at hand, it is in our faces.

The tragedy is that we as Christians have so far disregarded the opportunity that has been given to us…

To reach out to the betrayed.

Studies recently have reported that overall church attendance has not changed since this whole economic downturn.

What are we doing?