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'Prosperity Teaching' still has its teachers and its followers in numerous churches today. There is a massive gulf between such teaching and the words and actions of Jesus Christ. Nevertheless some who claim to follow Jesus actually teach that we should be materially rich. They teach that God wants us to be rich. In fact if we are not rich we are missing opportunities to serve God more fully. Or worse: we are failing, lacking faith, not walking as God wants us to. Jim Reiher carefully and graciously dismantles such teaching. He gently shows that such teaching is completely out of sync with the Bible - especially Jesus. He shows that people who teach prosperity teaching are anchored for the most part in the Old Covenant and have failed to understand what Jesus did in bringing in the New Covenant. Prosperity teachers misuse scripture after scripture, or fragment of scripture after fragment of scripture, as they pull words out of context and apply a totally alien meaning to them. From the Proverbs to the Gospels to the letters to Revelation, Jim carefully takes us through the scriptures with convicting clarity. He exhorts us to stop re-working Jesus to be just like us, but rather he challenges us to change ourselves to be more like Jesus.

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Jim Reiher lives in Melbourne Australia. He has four adult children and lots of grandchildren. Jim writes both fiction and non-fiction. Regarding most of his non-fiction, Jim's serious side comes out, although sometimes he writes his non-fiction with humor, too ('Confessions of a Christian Magician' is a good example of that). Jim is a respected Australian Biblical scholar, with a MA in Theology with Honors, and 13 years of full time lecturing in Bible Colleges. Jim has published a number of books on topics ranging from Tarot Cards, to the Equality of Women in the Church, to how politics works in Australia. He has also written a number of commentaries on different New Testament books and letters: the Epistle of James, the Book of Acts, and most recently the Gospel of Mark. Jim enjoys a nice quiet walk in 'the middle of no where'; a good movie; a good book; playing ten-pin bowling; writing; and spending time with his children and grandchildren.

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