“Don’t tell me what love can do” – Van Halen (Balance)

via Van Halen – Don’t Tell Me (What Love Can Do) (1995) (Music Video) WIDESCREEN 720p – YouTube

Is this the same band singing “Can’t stop lovin’ you”??

“If I’m wrong, then I’ll pay for it
If I’m right, yeah you’re gonna hear about it”

I’ve had enough of the peppy, crappy small talk that struts around as gospel truth……!

What Pope Francis Said About Power and Humility at Surprise TED Talk

http://time.com/4755663/pope-francis-ted-talk-transcript/

Sublimewe & Saras

The many in the one and the one in the many

The self, relationships & the world

Live ~ believe, love, laugh & work

In this moment of global crisis, what is going to be my response – fight, flee or freeze?

Yemen Could Become the Next Syria: It’s Time the World Stepped in

http://www.newsweek.com/yemen-civil-war-aid-590066?amp=1

As I read such stories, I ask myself, what have I got to do with them?

Will I just continue living as if I have never known such things are happening in the world?

Distinguish:
The world
&
My life
What about my world & the life??

How can I live in such a way that I can have a positive impact (no matter how insignificant in the bigger picture) on at least one of the pressing issues of our time?

Wikipedia founder aims to ‘fix the news’ with a crowd-funded website

http://yahoonewsdigest-us.tumblr.com/159988220089

Social media, online advertising, political lobbying & fake news

The challenge of keeping the Internet free and preventing the accumulation & spread of garbage….

The need for optimizing the link between the public & experts, and galvanizing individuals into motivated communities of solidarity, to counter the unethical forces and vested interests that seek to undermine democracy

Preaching, preaching, preaching!

Free your mind – Bishop T. D. Jakes

 

The Gospel – Timothy Keller
Vision of Redeemer Church
Top 10 Most Influential Preachers of the Last 25 Years

 

– The pulpit, the preacher and the sermon

– Preaching is essentially evangelical!

Sermons are chiefly instruments of “soul-winning”

– Was Jesus just another of the “great ones”??

I’m not convinced, yet……