Sermon Illustrations for Thanksgiving Day (2014)
Deuteronomy 8:7-18
Success has a way of making you too big for your britches. In fact, success is often a function of "the cards you've been dealt" in life --
your gene pool (whether you inherited intelligence) and how you get your money. In a recent best-selling book Capital in the Twenty-
First Century, French economist Thomas Piketty has demonstrated statistically that the global market is rigged so that those getting
income from investments (and many of the wealthy get those as a birthright) will almost inevitably get richer than those living from a salary.