Word: preachings
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...world opinion on any issue. Whether it is environmental concerns or human rights, America wipes its feet on the rest of the world. Clear violations of all norms and conventions, holding people without judicial process?you name it, the U.S. has done it. What right do Americans have to preach liberty and freedom to the rest of the world? Ramji Abinashi Amersham, England...
Perhaps so, but the no-money-down concept has created an industry in which it is often more profitable to preach real estate investing than to practice it. The pioneers were Robert G. Allen, 37, and Albert Lowry, 58, who wrote rival best-selling books on the subject during the 1970s and early 1980s. An updated edition of Allen's Nothing Down zoomed back onto the best-seller lists last year. Offering dozens of financing tactics, Allen and Lowry were soon so much in demand that they formed companies and hired dozens of disciples to go out and preach...
...black grief and outrage. Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, the 1984 Nobel laureate who has emerged as the leading voice of moderate black protest against apartheid, conducted an outdoor funeral service beyond the restricted area, declaring that "I will not be told by any secular authority what gospel I must preach...
Then in a clear warning to the authorities, the bishop declared, "I have been a minister for 24 years, and I am not going to start now being told what to preach. I do not want to defy the government. But Scripture says that when there is a conflict between the law of God and the law of man, we must obey the law of God. I will continue to preach as instructed. Our God is not blind. He is not deaf. He is not sleeping. He sees what is happening, and when he sees, he acts. God came down...
...politician. My paradigm comes from the Scriptures. I say to the government that it cannot prescribe to me what I preach. Equally, no one in the black community can prescribe to me what I should do. I'm not in this game for personal kudos. I wish I weren't in the game at all. I have to follow biblical paradigms: prophets go on talking to kings; Moses goes to Pharaoh, even when he is told that Pharaoh is going to harden his heart. But he goes...