Preface
No matter how many times we hear it, the old adage rings true--beliefs lead to consequences. Good or bad; rational or irrational; all behaviors back up to heredity, an acquired belief system or some sort of revelation. Every person who behaves does so according to his or her beliefs.
As I grew up, there were three primary contributors to my belief system--my parents, my culture and the Church. My parents were average, middle-class African-Americans. My mother had a high school education and my father only an eighth grade education, but they set a delightful example of the Christian life, morality, and hard work. My father was a custodian and barber, and my mother worked several odd jobs--cleaning homes, mending books and anything to give me and my two siblings a chance at life.
Like the average Black child, I grew up loving and playing sports. My neighborhood friends, who like me, dreamed of one day playing professional basketball, football or baseball. I came to believe, not because I was instructed but because of the attitudes, innuendos, songs, jests and sly remarks of my upbringing, that Blacks could only make it in life by their athletic prowess. Of course, since God had given me some natural athletic talent.......
No matter how many times we hear it, the old adage rings true--beliefs lead to consequences. Good or bad; rational or irrational; all behaviors back up to heredity, an acquired belief system or some sort of revelation. Every person who behaves does so according to his or her beliefs.
As I grew up, there were three primary contributors to my belief system--my parents, my culture and the Church. My parents were average, middle-class African-Americans. My mother had a high school education and my father only an eighth grade education, but they set a delightful example of the Christian life, morality, and hard work. My father was a custodian and barber, and my mother worked several odd jobs--cleaning homes, mending books and anything to give me and my two siblings a chance at life.
Like the average Black child, I grew up loving and playing sports. My neighborhood friends, who like me, dreamed of one day playing professional basketball, football or baseball. I came to believe, not because I was instructed but because of the attitudes, innuendos, songs, jests and sly remarks of my upbringing, that Blacks could only make it in life by their athletic prowess. Of course, since God had given me some natural athletic talent.......
Table of Contents
The Idea of Perpetual Abundance
1. Life Levels
2. Supernatural Supply
The Fullness of the Earth
3. The Magnificent Earth
4. The Abundance of the Earth
5. Similes and Metaphors
The Abundant Nature of God
6. Unveiling God’s Abundant Nature
7. The Principle of More Than Enough
The Assumption of More
8. Inherently More
9. The Gospel of More
10. Give us our Daily…More
Unconscious Hypocrisy
11. Calling a Spade a Spade
The Purpose of Money
12. Unraveling the Ball of Confusion
13. The Divine Purpose
The Idea of Perpetual Abundance
1. Life Levels
2. Supernatural Supply
The Fullness of the Earth
3. The Magnificent Earth
4. The Abundance of the Earth
5. Similes and Metaphors
The Abundant Nature of God
6. Unveiling God’s Abundant Nature
7. The Principle of More Than Enough
The Assumption of More
8. Inherently More
9. The Gospel of More
10. Give us our Daily…More
Unconscious Hypocrisy
11. Calling a Spade a Spade
The Purpose of Money
12. Unraveling the Ball of Confusion
13. The Divine Purpose
