“Ideas shape the course of history”. ~John Maynard Keynes. Isn’t that true when one goes through history? From the Wright brothers airplane to Thomas Edison’s light bulb and Graham Bell’s telephone? The list goes on when 20th and 21st century giants such as Eric Schmidt and his google, Bill Gates and microsoft; and Mark Zuckerberg and the facebook come into the picture.How about Jack Dorsey’s 2006 “sideline project” which became a colossal micro-blogging site Twitter? Finis J Drake’s contribution was the annotated Drake’s concordance bible. [ Read more ]

Nike, Timberland, Adidas, Rocawear, Nickelodeon, Bravo, MTV, T-Mobile, Orange, Vodafone, 3, and O2, PS3, X Box, and Nintendo Wii. There is a war going on for the hearts and minds of our teenagers in the UK today, and big business is winning!
The truth is that the youth and teenage market in this country alone is worth over a £2.7 billion. All the retailers, phone companies, and game manufacturers have one thing in common–they are all targeting teenagers; telling them what to buy, how to look, what to wear, and what to listen to. They know the youth and teenage market is huge and they are dedicated to targeting them and getting their money!!

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No one saw it coming; neither banks nor governments, neither analysts nor economists, neither stock brokers or traders; or at least that’s what they want us to believe. They want us to believe that the credit crunch, the global recession, the collapse of historic institutions, the unprecedented repossessions (foreclosure) of houses and escalating unemployment, just happened without warning and without notice.

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The Butterfly Effect

Change; love it or hate it, it usually happens anyway.  Even if we don’t, all around us does and that will either work for us or it won’t.  The current world economic climate is forcing change.  Whether in our spending habits, or the things we value or put our trust in or how we view ourselves, it’s changing. The thing about some changes is that we’d rather no one see the transition. For example as a tree changes through the seasons it goes through a time of losing all it has, looking like it’s on it’s way out, bare and baron.  Then slowly but surely you begin to see new growth and then, what seems like all of a sudden it comes into the fullness of it’s glory.

One of natures most radical change process is that of the caterpillar to butterfly but have you ever heard a caterpillar scream in its cocoon?  Seems like a really nonsense thing to say but we often pray for what could be called the ‘Butterfly Syndrome’. [ Read more ]

The Kingdom of God: Jesus preached about the Kingdom of God more than any other message, he wanted everybody to know about the Kingdom and be part of it. It is of paramount importance for the world to know. That everybody is on earth for a purpose; it is individual’s responsibility to discover his purpose. Jesus is the way to the Kingdom.

Spiritual Development To be effective in the Kingdom, everyone needs to grow spiritually. Four steps to spiritual development are. Read the Bible every day; Pray every day, Join a Bible led Church and get involved in a ministry. [ Read more ]