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The church began as a movement in Jerusalem. It became a philosophy in Greece, an institution in Rome, a culture in Europe and, when it came to America, it became a business... a highly profitable business. But God is coming back for a movement.

L. Ron Hubbard (Founder of Scientology) once said "Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion."




California-based designer Jim Lenahan – best known for his concert sets for musicians like Tom Petty and Korn – has designed a chair for Pope Francis' visit to New York today.

The Pope is in New York today as part of a three-city tour of the United States taking place this week.

Francis will sit on the large plywood throne, which features a curved back, mahogany trim, and white-cushioned seat and back, to deliver a mass at Madison Square Garden during his visit to the city.

The chair was designed by LA's Jim Lenahan Production Design, a company that has long worked on sets for Tom Petty.

Francis landed in Washington DC on September 22, and became the first Pope to address a joint session of Congress on September 24. Following his time in New York, the Pope will travel to Philadelphia for more public events and ministry.

Francis, an Argentinian who practices in the Jesuit tradition, advocates for the poor. He has cast off many of the luxurious trappings of his predecessors.

The plywood throne reflects the Pope's "emphasis on simplicity and humility," Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, said during its unveiling.



Humility is God’s style

The first Reading speaks about Naaman, the commander of the Syrian army, who was a leper. The prophet Elisha tells him to wash himself seven times in the Jordan to be healed, and yet Naaman was indignant because he expected a grand gesture. But then he listened to the advice of the servants, and did what the prophet said, and he was cleansed of leprosy. The inhabitants of Nazareth were like Naaman, the Pope said. “They wanted a spectacle,” but “the style of the good God is not to produce a spectacle: God acts in humility, in silence, in the little things.” This begins with Creation, the Pope said, where the Lord does not use a “magic wand,” but creates man “with mud.” It is a style that runs through “the whole of salvation history”:

“When He desired to free His people, He freed them through the faith and confidence of a man, Moses. When He desired to cause the fall of the powerful city of Jericho, He did so through a prostitute. And for the conversion of the Samaritans He required the work of another sinner. When He invited David to fight against Goliath, it seemed crazy: the little David standing before that giant, who had a sword, who had so many things, while David had only a sling and the stones. When He told the Magi that a King was born to them, the Great King, what did they find? A little child, a manger. The simple things, the humility of God… this is the divine style, never the spectacle.”

God works in humility, not spectacles

The Pope noted that “one of the three temptations of Jesus in the desert” was to create a spectacle. Satan invites Him to cast Himself down from the pinnacle of the Temple so that, seeing the miracle, the people might believe in Him. “The Lord, instead, is revealed in simplicity, in humility,” he said. “It would do us good this Lent,” the Pope said, “to consider how the Lord has helped us in our lives, and how the Lord has led us onward. We will find that the Lord has always done this with simple things.”

He concluded, “This is how the Lord acts: He does things simply. He speaks silently to you, to the heart. Let us remember in our lives the many time we have felt these things: the humility of God is His style; the simplicity of God is His style. And even in the liturgical celebration, in the sacraments, what is beautiful is that which manifests the humility of God, and not the worldly spectacle. It would do us good to journey through our life and to consider the many times the Lord has visited us with His grace, and always with this humble style, the style He calls us, too, to have: humility.”

(from Vatican Radio)




http://www.inplainsite.org/html/tele-evangelist_lifestyles.html


Now this ....



Pastor who owns two Rolls-Royces pleads for 200,000 church supporters to donate '$300 or more' EACH so he can buy a $65MILLION private jet 'to better spread the gospel of Jesus Christ'
Reverend Creflo Dollar is the head of World Changers Church International
The 53-year-old preaches 'that God wants to bless the faithful with earthly riches' and the church has about 30,000 members
He has an estimated net worth of $27 million
Has appealed online for 200,000 people to donate $300 so he can buy Gulfstream G650, worth $65 million and favored by billionaires
Says the plane is essential for him to 'reach a lost and dying world for the Lord Jesus Christ'




The founder and leader of a controversial Atlanta-based megachurch has appealed online for 200,000 people to each donate '$300 or more' so that he can buy a $65 million private jet favored by high-flying billionaires.
Reverend Creflo Dollar, 53, is the head of the World Changers Church International, a Christian ministry centered around the prosperity gospel, which preaches that God wants to bless the faithful with earthly riches.

The televangelist, who is one of the most prominent African-American preachers in the United States, this week put a five-minute video up on his website pledging for donations for a Gulfstream G650 - which claims to be the fastest plane ever built in civilian aviation - so that 'World Changers Church International can continue to blanket the globe with the Gospel of grace'.
Dollar - who is known to own two Rolls Royce's and multi-million dollar homes in Atlanta and New Jersey - last hit headlines in 2012, after being arrested for allegedly attacking his 15-year-old daughter.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2993759/Controversial-pastor-owns-two-Rolls-Royces-pleads-200-000-church-supporters-donate-300-buy-65M-private-jet-better-spread-gospel-Jesus-Christ.html#ixzz3nD33O7OL
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olojooluwatobi:
Miniflat 200k terrazo upstairs, Yoruba client only. It's around puposola New Oko-Oba Abule Egba.

You will wait till thy kingdom come

Bigot

diportivo:
And here we go again...and again an again

We av been here before....and before...and before

I wonder wat tribe has got to do with this...some of d dudes ranting im support av neva seen one ivm badged 'edegbe' before sef

While innoson is commendable,i will like his offices/showrooms in lagos,abuja and porthacourt to be buzzing much more than elizades

Advertise ur cars in d dailies...add a price tag...give us specs....autoist are not interested in the first born or 2nd son of the manufacturers father....they wanna know whats under the hood...whats makes ur car/bus/truck tick....wat makes it stand out from competitors

Some people will use tribalism to support wheel barrow on 4 wheels sef....thats why nigeria is still where it is

Nice one ...very intelligent

ryanfletcher:
hahaha,has any ibo man ever made something original? just show me any original thing from an IBO man that's ever work out fine so tell me why this motor wouldn't take you to an untimely death? with fakes assembly accessories I am very confident that its a suicide mission to drive one if those buses for transport sevices

Hahahaha has any of your kinsmen ever replicated anything successful


I Pitt you ... I must be honest

tsdarkside:
nigeria is not spain.....you should be careful....nigerians can not be stopped,when they get angry and come after you....in the civil war,you thought,you will defeat nigeria quick and have biafra...but,it came different......

Let Nigeria defeat boko haram first before we fit hear word

They couldn't defeat the Niger delta rather went for amnesty



Just pray it doesn't happen that all..as of the army ...tribalism killed it around 1975

Thanks

seunmsg:
Of all the important issues affecting the country, you think PMB will travel to the US just to discuss an inconsequential biafran struggle led by a crack head noise maker in London. Biafra start and end on radion biafra and Nairaland.

See fear...e go do you like cinema



Lol

Aegon:
You didn't add HALF A KEG OF PALM OIL. And a dwarf broom to mix it all.

Lol

I have realised majority of non Igbo has lost it on Igbo things

Everyday why Igbo this why Igbo that

If we don't eat our good food is it ewedu ati amala we will eat?


Try get a job and its Igbo not ibo

BlaqCoffee109:
I just asked a simple question that required an educative and informed reply..didnt know leeches were gonna act like bitch3s on heat...

Why gloss and cry that

Hmmmm

chika29:
guy uno know where lagoon dey?it seems udnt wot intl obligation is?na only our president dey there?o boy I sowi 4 u,d earlier u accept PMB as ur president till 2019 d beta.make hbp no go kill u or in alternative relocate 2 syria.mumu wailers

Is this English or Spanish


Just asking

Igbo again ...hian

So we have ended up having a photo posing dude in short a poster boy as the head man of the country

I wish him well
Is he back from Jordan yet ...next will be cape Verde

HawksDude:
IBO food is sweet. No doubt. One of the many reasons Im considering an Ibo girl for marriage. Yorubas don't have so many types of food like that.

They should invent I am Igbo also yes I know our women cook and this is one reason Igbo hardly marry outside to be honest...who wants an oily peppery food...that will be one way ticket to ulcer and cardiac arrest

But calabar women cook better or do I say at par


I still love efe eriro anyway but can't touch ewedu



I think it is just curiosity in man

badnature:
@Blaaqkofee most an ibo man married you? don't you have anything important doing? what is your business with who igbo man married?

Help me ask her that question ..I have told her to stick to her people

.....then she called me a bigot
Can you imagine

vodkat:
Ordinary LAPD go destroy nigeria army plus boko haram not to talk of nypd

not to talk of LAPD SWAT +SAS na die

So LAPD will destroy our army ..the biggest army in Africa

Lol

IF YOU HAVE IT FLAUNT IT...WHY DONT LAPD WARN KARDASHIAN AND WEST NOR DR DRE...MAKE THE POLICE GO REST


THEY ARE REAPING FRUITS OF THEIR LABOUR

Towncrier247:
A security expert and Lagos
Police Command spokesperson, DSP Joseph
Offor says showing off on social media is a
security risk and would advice people to calm
down on it.

"It's not advisable for anyone, whether you're
a celebrity or not, to post your personal
acquisitions on social media. Such a thing is
very risky. And those doing that will only end
up putting the police on their toes."
http://www.splendormag.com/2015/09/stop-showing-off-expensive-things-on.html

Hero:
Why would those groups deny being Igbo? Is being Igbo seen as a bad thing in Naija or something?

Why don't ask your father that question

jethro2013:
I hate d banj...he is living on his past glory...

He should concentrate on garri that he is selling

uselessgoat:
UPON EVERYTHING DBANJ DID FOR THAT FLAT HEADED IBO BOY CALLED DON JAZZY, HE STILL BETRAYED HIM THINKING HIS RECENT BAND OF GOD WIN CROONERS WILL GIVE HIM THE HYPE DBANJ GAVE HIM BACK THEN. DBANJ IS THE PRIDE OF WE YORUBA'S UNLIKE THOSE LOCAL IGBO BOYS CALLED DONJAZZY AND PSQUARE.

before u qoute me, tell me any of the igbo singers who can make KANYE WEST appear in their videos if not DBANJ from the south west.

Your name says it all


Just useless

obailala:
... and if she's Igbo, what does her tribe have to do with this case?

I now understand your position dear


I think it will be good to ignore the messenger and take the message
But you have a valid point anyway

Omololu007:
what's the business of the op with yorubas? Yorubas must be given the op nightmare

But he just reported a story .or are you saying that a non Yoruba shouldnt report

Muhammadu Buhari, the new president of Nigeria, is starting from point zero. The country has all but come to a sudden halt. Schools, hospitals and the civil service have closed down. Shops have run out of goods. The street markets are empty. Most will not see the inauguration of the new President on TV. Much of Nigeria has been switched off.



The cause lies at the heart of Nigeria’s failure: the oil management mafia. A small number of wealthy Nigerians and a few outsiders control the country’s energy supply. They are military, civil servants, foreign oil companies, politicians or combinations of all them. Their mafias even have names: the Major Marketers Association of Nigeria, the Depot and Petroleum Marketers and the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria.



For years these mobsters – and complicit politicians – have prevented Nigeria having its own oil refinery, making billions importing fuel and receiving a subsidy so that Nigerians can have cheap fuel (much of it is smuggled to neighbouring countries thereby messing up the economies of the region and depriving Nigerians of the real value of their oil). The oil bosses are now on strike, refusing to import fuel until the government gives them 200 billion Naira – about £6.5 billion. The government is offering 159 billion Naira. Until then Nigeria is halted. Will the lights and mics be on for the re-inauguration of Muhammadu Buhari? They may be in Abuja but will Nigerians elsewhere be able to watch it on TV?


http://baobabafricaonline.com/2015/06/24/can-buhari-fix-nigeria/

jabbok:
Awolowo died with Yoruba sense.

How ?

Lol

obailala:
What has Igbo got to do with this?

Is she not Igbo ?

Timoleon:
what does the pope sell?

Oh Jordan sells islam ....now I get the drift

This dude will be declared president at large



Always on the move


Nyash de scratch am ?


Just asking

IamPatriotic:
I'm Yoruba from ondo state, but the truth has to be told about the abduction of Chief Olu Falae, some people are not happy with a Fulani man being their president, he against all odds defeated their preferred and anointed candidate and they are bitter.

How do you mean ....

Are you talking sense nowv? Bro

Omololu007:
what action do ibos take,,when igalas invaded a town in anambra and beheaded ibos,,what was the reactions of ibos?

Why call Igbo again na


Hmmm Igbo must be giving you nughtamre

obailala:
Enough of all these noise over this little administrative lapse. This woman retires in 2 months, this issue and this woman should be allowed to be.

It's good so that Igbo will know how Nigeria is treating then