Tag: financial crisis

Money As Debt

Fascinating video about how money works, showing that money is actually nothing more than promises. So the correlation between keeping promises and financial health is made clear.

The Problem

Increasing Sanctification Because the word sanctification means separated unto God or separated for the purposes and use of God, and because biblical wisdom opposes worldly wisdom (see Arsy Varsy) increased sanctification requires less entanglement with worldly ways and means. This,…

Revaluation of Debt

I could title this post “The Jubilee Factor” because it is a simple observation about the teaching of the biblical Jubilee and how it speaks to the current world financial crisis. So, what is the Jubilee? The Jubilee year (Leviticus…

Health Care/Insurance Reform

Why should government or businesses provide health care or retirement benefits at all? Think of Social Security: it began after the Great Depression as a way to provide for people so that such a situation would not happen again. People…

The Madoff Scandal

So, Bernard Madoff pled guilty and will go to jail. Not only do we taxpayers have to pay for his crime, but now we have to pay for his food and rent for the rest of his life. But that’s…

Pride

1 Corinthians 1:17-31 Paul wasn’t interested in baptism or fancy talk. He was not out to impress anyone with his knowledge or his communication skills. He didn’t give a hoot what the world thought of him or of his preaching.…