http://www.sync-blog.com/sync/2012/11/is-the-internet-making-trust-obsol...

Some interesting ideas in the article, I think.

Do you trust the internet?  Has the internet made you more or less trusting?

Someone asked the question on another thread, along the lines of:

Is faith accepting everything everyone says, and developing your own truth?

If it's a fair question to ask, What is faith?  (Not so much the content of what the faith is in, but faith in and of itself)  Is it belief?  Trust?  Hope?  What does the word 'faith' mean to you?

Have at it.

Is it really possible for us to believe (trust in the reality & goodness of) anything that we haven't actually experienced?

Personally, I don't think so. What do you think?

What is our response? What is GOd's response? THat is the question at the base of my sermon for next Sunday.

Click here to read my early thoughts

As the refrain in More Voices says: Don't be afraid, my love is stronger. My love is stronger than your fear...ANd I have promised, promised to be always here.

Just months ago, I had a post on this very site from a young and beautiful woman in Africa who had some 25 miilion dollars she wanted to send to me. Of course, I suspected this might be a fake. But this time, the real thing is coming.

It's in Africa - a place seemingly alive with women who have millions in bank accounts for the right man. I know this one is real because she doesn't talk impossible sums, just a reasonable five million to be given to Christian widows, orphans, etc.

I have to just let all this flow. if it doesn't make sense then its fine, I may be the only to truly understand it and like I said before wondercafe is the only place I can go to blog that no one knows me or can pass judgement on what I have to say. its just who I am and who I am is disappearing. I know my relationship isn't all that healthy, but it could be. its not physically abusive or anything like that but I am starting to feel like I am being somewhat controlled and somewhat lead in directions I don't know if I want to be in.

I continue to be amazed by the increasing use of words heavy with theological overtones by business authors. Take the word "trust" for example. 

Stephen R. Covey (The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything by Stephen R. Covey, Stephen M.R. Covey, and Rebecca R. Merrill (Paperback - Feb 5 2008)) and Jeffrey Gitomer (Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Teal Book of Trust: How to Earn It, Grow It, and Keep It to Become a Trusted Advisor in Sales, Business and Life by Jeffrey Gitomer (Hardcover - Dec 17 2008)) are two noteworthy entries.

"Trust" is very prevalent in discussions about Web 2.0 and what will characterize the coming world.

Jeff Jarvis, in his helpful book What Would Google Do?, devotes an entire chapter to exploring trust as a key characteristic of a Google world.

"Trust is an act of opening up; it's a mutual relationship of transparency and sharing. The more ways you find to reveal yourself and listen to others, the more you will build trust, which is your brand." Jarvis could be writing to the church.

I continue to be amazed by the increasing use of words heavy with theological overtones by business authors. Take the word "trust" for example.

Stephen R. Covey (The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything by Stephen R. Covey, Stephen M.R. Covey, and Rebecca R. Merrill (Paperback - Feb 5 2008)) and Jeffrey Gitomer (Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Teal Book of Trust: How to Earn It, Grow It, and Keep It to Become a Trusted Advisor in Sales, Business and Life by Jeffrey Gitomer (Hardcover - Dec 17 2008)) are two noteworthy entries.

"Trust" is very prevalent in discussions about Web 2.0 and what will characterize the coming world.

Jeff Jarvis, in his helpful book What Would Google Do?, devotes an entire chapter to exploring trust as a key characteristic of a Google world.

"Trust is an act of opening up; it's a mutual relationship of transparency and sharing. The more ways you find to reveal yourself and listen to others, the more you will build trust, which is your brand." Jarvis could be writing to the church.

Act 4:32 -35                   Can We Trust God?                Easter 2, April 19, 2009
John 20:19 -31

I read every day many forms of biblical instruction and all I ask is for God to show up in a manner I can recognize so that I know He is present in my life. Is asking for this a unfaithful?