Candid quips

These insightful quips were posted to Daily manna, a WhatsApp group, by Sunday A. I reproduce the full post below.

Permit me to give you these words of wisdom. It will also be a great blessing to you. Please read and meditate on them:

1. ON EARNING:
Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second chance.

2. ON SPENDING:
If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

3. ON SAVINGS:
Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.

4. ON TAKING RISK:
Never test the depth of a river with both feet.

Is Obama anti Christianity?

I think Cameron got it right where Obama is missing it. The Church has been placed under all sorts of pressures and restrictions in the United States to the extent that many do not even acknowledge the foundational role of Christianity in the birth of this great nation.

The following piece is from Conservative Tribune

UK’s Prime Minister Defies Obama, Makes Huge Announcement About Christianity

When a world leader makes a video to wish his citizens a happy Easter and declares that his is a Christian country, you can be fairly certain that it’s not Barack Obama.

Still, who it is will both shock you and make you realize how far we’ve fallen under this president.

David Cameron, prime minister of the United Kingdom, released an Easter video message to Britons. While the two-and-a-half minute speech touched on a number of themes, one of the core sentiments Prime Minister Cameron relayed was that the United Kingdom was a “Christian country.”

“Easter is a time for Christians to celebrate the ultimate triumph of life over death in the resurrection of Jesus,”Prime Minister Cameron’s address began.

Will religion go the way of dinosaurs?

Find out the answer in this article from CNN.

The world's fastest-growing religion is ...

By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor

Despite predictions that religion will go the way of dinosaurs, the size of almost every major faith -- sorry, Buddhists -- will increase in the next 40 years, according to a study released Thursday by the Pew Research Center.

The biggest winners, Pew predicts, will be Islam and Christianity.

Islam, the world's fastest-growing faith, will leap from 1.6 billion (in 2010) to 2.76 billion by 2050, according to the Pew study. At that time, Muslims will make up nearly one-third of the world's total projected population of about 9 billion people.