I=?UTF-8?B?4oCZ?=m Excited

I'm excited. Why? All next week, we'll have a guest blogger who will be gracing the pages of Stand Firm. That's good because you won't have to listen to me, and I won't have to come up with new and exciting topics. (You're probably thinking that I haven't come up with one yet, but hey, there's always hope.) What's the topic? Transforming churches. You may have some vague memory of this topic being discussed here in the past, but this series of posts will come from a totally different perspective, Can Transforming Churches Be Fixed? So can it be fixed? I doubt it - we'll see what our guest blogger has to say. Who is the mystery blogger? Well you'll just have to come back to find that out. Have a great weekend. I'll see you next week.

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New Discovery: Global Trade Helps Economy

I wish I would have thought of that! Seriously, in case you didn’t know, experts (myself included) say that global trade helps economy; and, that tearing down barriers to global trade is the answer, not the problem.

Read more here. Fabulous material. Great quote by Rick Wade, senior analyst and deputy chief of staff of the U.S. Department of Commerce:

“While the challenges we face are deep and real … and unrivaled in half a century, American companies are world leaders in technology, innovation and entrepreneurship. Exporting and importing are essential to creating jobs and growing the economy.”