Put your money where your mouth is

04May09

Half the world lives on $2 or less a day.
At least 80% of the world lives on less than $10 a day.
The remaining 20% (that’s us) earn a VAST amount more – we earn more in a week than most people in the world will earn in a year.
The poorest 40 percent of the world’s [...]

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Overcoming Cultural Strongholds – Part 1: Consumerism

25Sep08

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms – Ephesians 6:2
I am going to post a series on the spiritual battle we face everyday in our minds, focusing on Western [...]

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