Hebrews 2:1-4
"We must pay the most careful attention... so that we do not drift away. " Hebrews 2:1.
Drifting in our relationship with God is hardly noticeable at first, it happens gradually. However, spending time, talking with Him in prayer, and reading His word, confessing our wrongs to Him, and spending time with the fellow believers can help us stay close to Him. As we connect with the Lord, He will be faithful to sustain us, and we can stop drifting away.
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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