For days now, white women all over the world have either been bawling uncontrollably or weeping silently into bits of Kleenex over the loss of Dirk Nowitzki.
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The magic that is Mariah Carey has inked a deal with American Idol in an amount, reportedly, climbing the scales toward 20 do-re-mi-mi-million dollars. Excuse the stutter, but those are enough C-notes to bribe a songbird or a sitting judge.
Unfortunately, the Pop and R&B diva, who regularly sticks her fingers in her ears whenever she hits high notes (even in bed hubby Nick Cannon affirms) may have a legitimate cause to do so in the coming episodes. It’s American Idol’s own fault though that the honey-coated vocals will be forced to sit idle through so many bad notes and worse singing. Hitting Paula Abdul with a “Straight up, now tell me? Did you really think we’d love you forever?” is what started this game of musical chairs in the first place.
Deion Sanders and his second wife Pilar appeared on Christian television as the picture of Black beauty, prosperity, and marital bliss. Hmmm. Enter Tracey Edmonds stage left and he and his gorgeous wife are exiting stage right . . . to divorce court.
Prosperity is defined as the state of being successful and flourishing. Most associate prosperity with material wellness only.
But, however you define it, we all want it.
Dr. Creflo Dollar is shepherd of World Changers Church International. He teaches his flock that prosperity for the Christian is not just about accumulating money. While the Bible clearly states that the love of money is the root of all evil (I Timothy 6:10) and not money itself, Dr. Dollar believes that prosperity is about possessing a sense of wellness in all areas of a person’s life: mind, body, soul, and spirit. And that includes financial wellness.
“Nothing missing. Nothing wanted,” says Creflo Dollar.
So why then do some of us (Christians, too!) seem so bothered by the prosperity of a Man of God?