Never underestimate the hypocrisy of those in power. Never. For they will be pious, they will cloak whatever they do in righteousness, and they will be careful to keep the regulations of the culture.
But they will game them.
For many in…
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Never underestimate the hypocrisy of those in power. Never. For they will be pious, they will cloak whatever they do in righteousness, and they will be careful to keep the regulations of the culture.
But they will game them.
For many in…
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Welmer says something smart here. I'm of the generation that did quite well out of the property boom -- at least in NZ. When we married, (in our 20s) we bought in a working class suburb: my ex-wife still has that house, and the area is now, on average worth six or seven times what we paid for the house.
When I viewed the photos I took (and am using today) I thought -- cliché. There are tons of photos of sunsets on flickr. But sometimes your clichés are useful as illustrations.
There are many within the church who account for success as the…
One of the principles that used to exist in common law was de minimus : the trivial has no place in a courtroom. Small stuff can just be sorted out. So it is in the church. There are variations in what one does: one person reads this lectionary…
Sometimes you can learn from the pagans. Particularly from those who work on self-improvement. There are some things you should do every day. The list should be fairly small and attainable. Reflecting on this, I need to work on a couple of issues:…