Observations On The Stock Market Collapse
During the stock market collapse of 2007-2009, it took the DJIA eight months to lose 2,000 points. Yesterday, the Dow quietly lost 250 points, bringing its January losses to 2,000 points—accomplishing in three weeks what it took eight months to do in the last market collapse. In this message, I’d like to look at the forces that cause stock markets to collapse. For several decades before the previous stock market crash, the government took the view that the “American Dream” of…
How the Kingdom Responds to Crisis
All catastrophic events cannot be broadly categorized as judgments from God. Let’s consider the storm that arose on the Sea of Galilee which threatened to send the disciples to their death. A bystander, who saw the storm arise, might have concluded that the disciples made God angry and were being judged for their sin. It’s human nature to assume that when bad things happen, God must be punishing us. When the Apostle Paul had a…
A Dream About New Currency
I had a dream this morning about a new type of currency that was issued. For whatever reason (it wasn’t given in the dream) the dollar was no longer being used as currency. Instead, people were issued a limited amount of a new type of currency. By ‘new type’ of currency, I mean it was spent differently. The values of the new currency were hard to understand. There were rules for spending it and many…