Ransford Advanced Diploma course in Theology and Divinity

The greatest secret to living effectively on earth is understanding the principle and power of priorities.  Life on earth holds no greater challenge than the complicating daily demand of choosingamong competing alternatives for our limited time.  Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities. How we use our time every day eventually defines our lives.  Life was designed to be simple, not complicated, and the key to simplifying life is prioritization. Identifying the correct and right priority of life is the key to a successful and fulfilled life.  So then, what is the principle and concept of priority?  Priority is defined as: ✓ The principal thing. ✓ Putting first things first. ✓
Establishing the most important thing.  ✓
Primary focus.  ✓
Placing in order of importance.  ✓
Placing highest value and worth upon.  ✓
First among all others. If our priorities determine the q...

Virtually every major problem in history and in our contemporary world can be traced to some religious foundation.  Religion has motivated the massacre of millions over the years in such horrific events as the Crusades, the Inquisition, and wars related to the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counterreformation. Slavery, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, segregation, racial discrimination, and other oppressive practices all have been justified by some religious code or system. If we can leave religion to operate God's designed principles, we will live more peaceful on earth

All of our universities, cyberspace technology, blackberries, think tanks, G-8 meetings, fiscal and immigration policies, medical advancements, social experiments, religious conferences, peace marches, and declarations of cease-fire and peace on earth all seem to collapse at the mercy of our own self-imposed destructive spirit. We build buildings and then bomb them; we make weapons and then use them on ourselves; we invent medicines that heal and then withhold them from the sick; we improve the World Wide Web to enhance global communication and then use it to destroy the moral fiber of our children.  We are our own greatest enemies, not satan.

 Check your character, check your financial level. Your way of life has been there till date. It might have changed a little. But it might have changed in direction of money. If you are a smoker, a whore monger, a killer, a sponsor, a drug seller,  an investor, a helper etc... more money in your pocket will surely amplify the character. The more money you make, the more your character reveals.

 Many times we see people we have grown up with or living around us buying luxuries: new cars, new houses, or sending their  to great universities. We feel we have been left behind. It's painful indeed especially when you don't have temperance to calm your emotion.  Sometimes it may even make you feel jealous, backward as if you were nothing.  Mind you: the progress of someone doesn't mean you are failing. If you have sit yourself down to count your blessings: sicknesses and hindrances overcome, and other triumphs you have experienced, you will be so grateful to God and yourself. Learn to be happy and stay focused in your ambitions. God bless you!