https://clmbooks.org/tags/materialism/Recent content in Materialism on Christian Living Ministries BooksHugo -- gohugo.ioen&copy; 2026 Christian Living MinistriesSun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://clmbooks.org/growing-a-godly-life-series/refocusing-on-lifes-priorities/Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://clmbooks.org/growing-a-godly-life-series/refocusing-on-lifes-priorities/<em>Refocusing On Life&rsquo;s Priorities</em> is a Christian devotional work by Ron Christian that calls believers to place eternal values above material possessions, worldly success, personal comfort, and the pursuit of status. The book maintains that materialism can quietly starve the soul by causing people to value temporal things more than spiritual things, and it contends that a Christian&rsquo;s priorities should be shaped by Christ, generosity, gratitude, contentment, simplicity, and service. Ron Christian warns against allowing money, possessions, ambition, and cultural definitions of success to become controlling forces, while also proposing a life marked by thankfulness, wise stewardship, family faithfulness, and concern for people above things. The work also addresses related themes such as remembering one&rsquo;s legacy, passing values to future generations, winning spiritual battles, resisting a corrupt culture, practicing contentment, avoiding self-indulgence, and choosing the good, the better, and the best. Its central message is that Christian maturity requires a continual refocusing of the heart away from temporary treasures and toward God&rsquo;s kingdom, lasting values, and faithful obedience in everyday life.https://clmbooks.org/sanctity-of-human-life-series/battle-against-humanism/Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://clmbooks.org/sanctity-of-human-life-series/battle-against-humanism/Battle Against Humanism! is a Christian devotional and apologetic work by Ron Christian that contrasts a Christ-centered worldview with what the author describes as humanism: a self-centered, prideful, materialistic, and God-denying philosophy. The book asserts that science and human reason are valuable gifts from God, but become spiritually dangerous when elevated into objects of worship or treated as the only path to truth. Christian emphasizes that both Scripture and nature reveal God, and he presents the ordered universe as evidence of divine design. Throughout the book, he calls believers to humility, prayer, obedience, compassion, and dependence on the Holy Spirit rather than self-sufficiency. The work also addresses related themes such as relativism, materialism, abortion, public moral standards, the teaching of the Bible, spiritual gifts, Christian service, heaven, suffering, praise, tears, laughter, and God’s love. Its central message is that the Christian life is not built on human pride or independence, but on repentance, faith in Christ, humble service, and loving witness to others.