... do an awful lot of worrying about the end. The millennium is approaching and fears about the Y2K problem, global warming, and nuclear terrorism are popping up all over the place. The future seems to stand or fall on the basis of what Alan Greenspan utters or on the forecasts of the latest stock market analyst. Some people say their prayers before they go to sleep at night. Others won't close their eyes until they have consulted their bedside astrologer. Late night television is filled with the testimonials ...
... And so we had to avoid Ronald Reed. He exposed our little faith. The truth is that our lives are filled with Freudian slips revealing our little faith. We nervously watch the daily gyrations of the stock market. We hang on every word spoken by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. We live and die for a bargain. We panic about the future of Social Security. But look at the birds of the air, the lilies of the field, the grass, which is full and lush in the morning but limp and wilted after a day in the hot ...
... it as indelicately as Jim Cramer did, but the message is the same. Greed can be your undoing. “Pigs get slaughtered.” Dr. Jerry Tankersley gives an excellent example of this principle. Remember a few years back when the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, was warning us of “irrational exuberance” in the stock market? And then the bubble burst, particularly in the tech sector. In a short time, the stock markets were down to levels they had not been at for years. There was an article in ...
... the bizarre, insulting, almost blasphemous nature of Jesus' blood and body language. For Jesus to insist his Jewish followers must drink his blood would be like the President of the United States insisting that true patriots must burn the flag, or Alan Greenspan arguing that responsible corporations must stop investing and spend all of their profits on the salaries of their employees. Such words are totally incongruous with what we expect to hear from our leaders, not to mention from what we understand as ...