Health: 1. Drink plenty of water 2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar 3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants, and eat less food that is manufactured in plants 4. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy 5. Make time for prayer 6. Play more games 7. Read more books than you did in 2008 8. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day 9. Sleep for 7 hours 10. Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day ---- and while you walk, smile Personality: 11. ...

I share similar convictions with the great patriarch, Paul, who says “For I am not ashamed of this good news about Christ. It is the power of God at work, saving everyone who believes – the Jews first and also the Greeks.” That is the reason why once in a while, I share those thoughts that have really shaped my thinking and my pattern of information processing. I enjoy extraordinary insight and understanding of difficult sentences because of this conviction, one I humble share with one of the greatest lawyers ...

03:45, Thursday, November 24, 2009 the ‘biggle’, oh, that horn had its effect on me. Not long after....., “if you are still on the bed you’re wrong......”, “HOW?!!!!!!” “Is it day-break already?”... “I still need more sleep”, but right at that time my options were limited, at least for this day. I had to stand up from my so-called mattress and get out for the drills! “KILLER” is his name, at least that’s what we know him by, a paramilitary with a God-given talent – his mouth. He made ...

Father Benedict Grimm pulled aside the embroidered scarlet curtain, and stepped into Umuofia’s atmospheric weave of dust and gentle breeze – sighing as he closed the door of the confessional. His heart was weary from the weight of hearing too many of fallen man’s numerous foibles. Only midday, he was drained – cursing the day God had created the pitiful tyranny of sweat and bones he called man. Only that day, he had listened through the latticed grating to a husky man grouchily tell of how he slaughtered his wife for smiling with a younger lad, who wooingly told her jokes.
'I did it', he had said in Igbo, 'with my dinner spoon'.
Father Ben, seventy-one, could see his bloodshot eyes seething with canine rage like a Freudian cauldron of mysteries. Another woman jealously stuffed the toddling son of her husband’s senior wife with pap, triggering a deathly convulsion. The other day, in a feyly sordid re-enactment of the biblical story of vengeance, a prostitute was stoned with rocks, and left to die at the town cemetery. Why? Why this bloody coup on the conscience? Why create raging emotions in the breast of fallen angels with clipped wings? Why suffer this wretchedness? His questions weren’t rhetorical. If a God surfing in the seventh heaven did not hear him, his fading mortality did; and every day, for 24 years in the Nigerian village he made his home – far away from the port of Leith in Scotland, when he asked these questions with richer, perplexing intensity, his body ached. He was dying – with every pain in his chest, with every Trojan vein that was not there before on his trembling hands...

My country weeps through the night My country weeps in deep fright My country weeps and prays to see the rising of the sun
For my country has its land – its own Zarephath We have our place of Refinement But we live in our land like a widow For our widowhood signifies desolation How Ironic and painful That desolation thrives in a place of Refinement
My country’s case is like a child who resides on a pasture-covered ground A ground flowing with water, milk and honey “Go on child, eat of your refinement!” But he can’t for the pasture-covered ground is covered by a steel sheet of corruption, filth and worst of all, ignorance…
This child starves and goes more hungry as the days go by The elements don’t favor him but add to his peril And standing afar off is a vulture waiting for the child to breathe his last so it can feast on its frail frame
So my country weeps My country weeps for agony of this child of promise My country weeps for the one whose life is about to fizzle away My country weeps for...

One of the most intriguing matter in my country is that of justice, there is a lot of claim at the moment about promoting the rule of law; and for a moment the citizens were thankful that at last hope for change is alive again, little did they know that it’s just one of the propaganda that starts big and dies before it can get its footings. I’ve always respected the legal profession and its practitioners, and still do respect them, but in many ways question the system in which ...

As you read this, my earnest desire is that you long in the innermost parts to have the most valuable relationship possible on earth.
Thinking about the story of a man who gave his life for his friends, I'm amazed, and all I can say is what manner of love is this? In my thoughts I consider, there must be something more to this, than just love as we are made to understand by the holy scriptures, i search deep to consider why a man should give his life for his friends; and I wonder in amazement, because no man has ever given that much for any one, and I'm doubt any man would be able to give his life for his friend today.
So he gave himself, for something no other person can give himself to or would give himself to; I believe he saw something he did not want his friends to see, I'm sure he's sacrifice was not just for the pleasure of love, but for the pain of separation - something his not willing to accept; not just for the fun of it, but for the pain of suffering; no wonder he asked the father, if the cup could pass over him, but the father I believe would have answered, "if you don't pay this sacrifice who would, let's do this once and for all and have all we have desired to have - a relationship with man (the creator's most valuable asset)."

What would you say of a man and his wife, considering divorce because of an argument? Let me add a little perspective to the question – the bone of contention is ‘how the toothpaste should be used”, the man argues that “it must be used pressing the base of the tube instead of anywhere on the tube” while the woman says, “what difference does it make it’s just toothpaste, the end is getting it out of the tube, how we do that is entirely up to you and me as individuals.” On this grounds both parties consider themselves incompatible, hence the marriage is best nullified. Can that guy or lady be ever compatible with anyone?
Consider that one of these folks has to serve in a public office or a position to influence people and they still have this kind of mentality, what kind of influence will they have on the people they are leading, other than setting precedents for rivalry, division and contention, because they have no understanding of personal differences and how to manage inter-personal relationships.
Think of the man who says, “I love my wife and I beat her up any time she goes wrong because I love her, if I don’t do that she’ll no get how important so things are” what kind of love is this? I believe love without respect is ‘no-love’; this kind of man tends to see the woman beneath him and considers what “of what good is she than take care of the home and the children” hence when he meets other women folk in more organized environments he either has problem with them based on basis of ‘why they should be working in such environment’, and others tend ‘to compare their wives to the women they meet at work, hence they are never satisfied with what the woman does at home’.

The Kennedy Family is considered to be one of the most politically influential family in the United States, the family is not only influential, every member of that family who had the privilege to serve in the US government served with dignity and contributed immensely to the development of the American People. In memory of Ted Kennedy – a prominent member of this great family, who recently passed on, after the 1980 failed attempt for the White House, in his conceding speech, he said, “…For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.” And after being an avid supporter of the then Senator Barak Obama’s bid for the White House, in their party’s 2008 Convention, his speech closed with this remark, “The work begins anew. The hope rises again. And the dream lives on.” Till the time of his death he was committed to what’s best for the American people, something passed down to him by his father and his older brother.

Over the last few weeks, we have studied the life of the bible Prophet Jonah and God’s dealings with him as recorded in the biblical account of his life. We were able to determine in the first and second parts of this message series that God IS merciful, that man was given freedom of choice by God and is not forced to obey God no matter how great the assignment he is given by the Lord or the mode by which the message was given i.e. how spectacular the mode was. Also, we were able to see from scriptures that even though man has been given free will and freedom of choice, it does not deny God the right to act in response to man’s choices; whether good or bad. God gave man freedom of choice but has put in place consequences or blessings (depending on whether the act is one of disobedience or obedience) that become man’s lot when he makes a choice. However, God also gave man the bible in order for man to learn what actions bring his judgment and those that bring his blessings. Thus, man literally determines the course of his life by the actions and decisions he makes. The more often he makes choices in line with the dictates of the bible; the Word of God, the better his life becomes.
In this last part of the message, we will go on to consider and establish some more lessons in regards to how God deals with man.