Find your gift and you will know your calling. Well, hold onto that thought. God is not perverse; He gives gifts for a reason. But don’t be too quick to assume you know the reason. Charles Thomas Studd had mad gifts in cricket, and every intention of parlaying them into fame. Then his brother, also…
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God’s sovereignty includes ownership of all His creation. Melchizedek, in blessing Abram, said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth (Gen. 14:19; cf. v. 22). The Bible continues the relationship between sovereignty and ownership by declaring to Israel that all the earth is His (Ex. 19:5). God demands obedience from…
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Pope Benedict XVI chose to discuss his thoughts on modern agriculture during a St. Peter’s Square address on Italy’s Thanksgiving Day… “The current economic crisis,” the Holy Father began, “must be taken in all its seriousness: It has numerous causes and sends a powerful message about the need for a profound revision of the model…
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In October, the Anti-Defamation League honored News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch with its International Leadership Award. The ADL was founded in 1913 “to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.” Rupert Murdoch is the owner of Fox News. If that sounds incongruous to you, it should.…
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If you’ve been appalled by this year’s ever-earlier commercial Christmas creep – the profusion of red and green that bleeds into our lives before the orange and black have even left the shelves – just wait until you see how quickly the war over the meaning of Christmas is heating up. This year’s first big…
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Can economics be studied from a Christian perspective? Is there a distinctly biblical economics, or is the biblical approach to economic issues only one approach among many? Some might maintain that economics is a “neutral” enterprise where religion in general and Christianity in particular are irrelevant. This, however, is not the Christian view. Economics deals with…
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Seldom has such dazzling headgear gathered in one place. A meeting of Catholic bishops from the Middle East has just ended in Rome. For two weeks, some 180 patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops and bishops of six different churches – Chaldean, Coptic, Syrian, Greek-Melkite, Maronite and Armenian – discussed the challenges facing Christianity with their Latin-rite brothers,…
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Citigroup Inc.’s (NYSE:C) CEO Vikram Pandit supports a 10% cap on credit-card interest rates — or so men of God told me on Monday. I was standing outside the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, where Pandit spoke at an event organized by The Economist magazine called The Buttonwood Gathering. There, Rev. David Benke,…
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The news that the Crystal Cathedral had filed for bankruptcy protection made for an instant sensation. The church established by Robert Schuller, the very prophet of “Possibility Thinking,” was now forced to seek protection from its creditors, listing $55 million in debt, including a $36 million mortgage. The Los Angeles Times ran “Cracked Crystal” as…
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Woolworths returned all Christian magazines to its stores after an outcry from outraged Christian customers, who threatened to boycott the group. This came after Christian lobbyist Errol Naidoo sent one e-mail to “thousands of Christians across the country”, giving out the e-mail address of Woolworths CEO Simon Susman. The result was that Susman’s inbox was…
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