1 Samuel 17:41-50
"You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Almighty,... " 1 Samuel 17:45.
When Goliath challenged Israel to engage in battle, no one was willing to fight. King Saul said, "...all the Israelites were... terrified. "
However, David said, "This day the Lord will deliver you (Goliath) into my hands,... "
David believed in God, and with a single stone he proved his faith.
We're tempted to believe that our troubles direct our future, but if we have faith, God dominates, and directs our future.
Globalization and the attendant concerns about poverty and inequality have become a focus of discussion in a way that few other topics, except for international terrorism or global warming, have. Most people have a strong opinion on globalization, and all of them express an interest in the well-being of the world's poor. The financial press and influential international officials confidently assert that global free markets expand the horizons for the poor, whereas activist-protesters hold the opposite belief with equal intensity. Yet the strength of people's conviction is often in inverse proportion to the amount of robust factual evidence they have.As is common in contentious public debates, different people mean different things by the same word. Some interpret "globalization" to mean the global reach of communications technology and capital movements, some think of the outsourcing by domestic companies in rich countries, and others see globalization as a byword for...
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