Lending money where it’s needed is what the modern form of finance, for the most part, does not do. What modern finance does, for the most part, is gamble. It speculates on the movements of prices and makes bets on their direction. Here’s a way to think about it: you live in ...
The truth is that God is the one who does it all. He is the one who makes it happen. As soon as you open your heart to his love and call him Father, He does the rest. He isn’t going to ask you to write an essay to find out if you really understand what you are doing. ...
The ship’s command senior chief and ringleader of the operation was convicted at court-martial and reduced in rank from E-8 to E-7: an outrageously light penalty considering her repeated lies to her commanding officer, her background in Navy IT that ensures she was absolutely aware of her...
I’ve learned over the years that the source of light does not come from the world. It does not come from accomplishments or achievements or college acceptances or what the world says about who we are. Instead, it comes from within each and every one of us as a child of God. It’s...
I say Christ's gospel - the message He brought from God - was the advance good news of the establishment of the Kingdom of God. But just what does that include?... Actually, Christ's message of God's coming Kingdom is directly concerned with world conditions as they are - with human...
The Buddhist tradition also holds great importance for the number 108 – not only does a mala (Buddhist rosary) typically consist of 108 beads or counting repetitions of mantras while meditating, but there are also said to be 108 symbols related to Buddha himself: 32 physical signs or marks ...
So let’s ask a helpful question at this point: What does it say about me (perhaps about you too) that I squirm with the way the Bible speaks about me as one of God’s children? As I already said: “The Gospel uses wildly favourable language to speak about God’s children.” It’...
He has told you, O man, what is good;and what does theLordrequire of you but to do justice, and to love kindness,and to walk humbly with your God?(Micah 6:8) The Gospel reconciles sinners to God and also person to person, community to community. Imagine our symphony of voices, ea...
“Blessed are those who recognize they are spiritually helpless. The kingdom f heaven belongs to them.” (Matthew 5:3 GW) Look at what Dr. J. Vernon McGee had to say. “Blessed ar the poor in spirit.” It doesn’t tell you how to become poor in spirit; it just says, “Blessed ...
Phillips’s eyes are closed, all 255 pounds of him anticipating the blow, hoping to endure it so he can return fire. He can’t move to evade the slap. That’s not allowed in this relatively new, super-fast-growing combat sport. Flinching is a foul—spiritually, the greatest foul in ...