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Faith and Capital · 5M ago

LESSONS LEARNED FROM TIME SERVED:

In the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Church at Ephesus he provides his reasons for becoming a willful prisoner for Christ. His chief reason was his inner most desire to experience the radical hospitality of Jesus the Christ and realized that he would have to make significant personal sacrifices. It w
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Faith and Capital · 11M ago

On Faith and Capital: Are we still at the Intersection?

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism written by Max Weber, a German socioligist, economist and politician, is considered a foundational text for American capitalism.  In the book, Weber wrote that capitalism in northern Europe evolved when the Protestant (particularly Calvinist) ethic i
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Faith and Capital · 1Y ago

Faith and Capital: The Cost of Homosexuality?

The bottom line of this issue is not really about Homosexuality at all! The real issue is sexual immorality among clergy, but it is too painful and too ubiquitous to deal with.
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Faith and Capital · 1Y ago

On Faith and Capital: The 7 Aspects of Spiritual Leadership

Much has been written on the subject of leadership and there are several measures one can use to quantify or assess the effectiveness of leadership, but the measure of spiritual leadership is another story all together. The Reverend Ralph West addressed this issue at the Hampton Minister’s Conferenc
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Faith and Capital · 1Y ago

On Faith and Capital: Healing for Recovery

A wise and successful pastor, by worldly standards, once taught me that money follows ministry. He argued that it was important to focus on the ministry or serving God’s people and not to worry about where the money will come from to sustain my family or the overhead of the ministry. It is a difficu
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Faith and Capital · 1Y ago

Faith and Capital

On Faith and Capital: Healing for Recovery
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Faith and Capital · 2Y ago

On Faith and Capital: The Cost of Church Membership?

Church membership can be very challenging as we are called to care for our neighbor and love our enemy, while accepting the reality of our own unmet human needs. For many this means balancing family, career, finances and personal time. This tension is exacerbated further during to times of great sor
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Faith and Capital · 2Y ago

On Faith and Capital: Gambling?

What is wrong with gambling? There are no scriptures in the bible directly related to gambling or the “lotto”. There are also many churches that have no problem having a church raffle, or bingo game. So, what is the real answer? Obviously, there is a more serious issue in extreme cases where people
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Faith and Capital · 2Y ago

On Faith and Capital: Birth Pains in Haiti.

Is God still good? How can the people of God sing songs of joy on Sunday morning, when there is no church to return to?
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Faith and Capital · 2Y ago

On Faith and Capital: The Hidden Cost of Faith

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” This sentence written by the Apostle Paul to the Hebrews nearly 2,000 years ago still gives incredible joy to so many Christians all over the world and yet makes no definitive claim that a non-believer can fully appre
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