Since gambling is not specifically named in the Bible, some would excuse it. However, it violates several Bible principles. Accepting gambling as legitimate and Christian takes down a trail that logically ends in accepting a worldly society's cultural practices and values.
How can you achieve great gain?
Is how we manage money important? Does it matter if I buy what I want so long as I keep the bills paid?
In First Timothy Paul gives some profound insights about the dangers of wealth. Regarding money and possessions in a right way is very important for the Christian.
Life and liberty are the inheritance of the child of God. It is what God has promised those who surrender their lives to Him. What about “the pursuit of happiness”? Is it, like life and liberty, also something that the Bible tells us is the result of being part of the family of God?
The "owes me" mentality has created a culture of takers and cheaters. What can we say of the damage to Christian faith when our energies are diverted into shortsighted pleasures and materialism? But, praise God, there is a solution for the ravages of entitlement!
In this article, we are called to look at our lives in relation to God's Word. Are we trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord; or are we leaning, falling trees that are allowing the culture around us to erode our roots?.
The virtue of contentment is not natural to the human heart. Even back in the early church materialism was a danger that Paul was led to warn others off.
One who steals deprives another of property that rightfully belongs to that person. Life today offers a hundred ways to be dishonest that we may be tempted to try in order to get ahead. Although you may never become a house breaker you still might be a thief.
Although we glibly talk about the land we “own,” we are actually using what belongs to another. The earth belongs to God by virtue of the fact that He created it. Has God relinquished His ownership?
What a question! Who wouldn't like to have no financial worries, especially these days when everything is so expensive? But - will money meet the needs of your soul?