‘Disposition’ describes a mindset that meshes with the concept of belief and faith. Positively, it is willingness or openness to accept new inputs. I knew I was disposed to change for good. I was open and ready. But I also knew I couldn’t manage it on my own … [To read more, click on title]
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List of Friends
I made a list of friends – ones I wanted to hold.
One of them stole my happiness, and one of them my gold.
One went away, didn’t even say goodbye;
One betrayed a secret … and one told a lie … [To read more, click on the title]
What’s Outside Your Gate?
Admit it: society thinks of the well-to-do as ‘somebody’, treating them with respect and honour, while we treat the destitute with scorn and judgment. We think of them as a ‘nobody’.
In Jesus’s story of a rich man and a poor man notice how he reverses that. The rich man is not named; other than his riches he’s nobody in particular. But the poor man is somebody. He has a name: Lazarus … [To read more, click on the title]
Deploying Wealth
Every commentator I have looked at in order to get some guidance in interpreting this text starts by saying how difficult it is; one reflection that I read calls it ‘baffling’ and says that people have struggled to make sense of it for centuries. That gave me great confidence! … [To read more, click on title]
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