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It’s Esther Time
Ramesh Richard The speed and the spread of the gloom and doom has been unexpected, yes, unnerving. A plane-load of humans has crash-landed into a cold, scary river of the global pandemic crisis. The minds and mouths of world leaders are rightly preoccupied with rescue options. [...]
Stray Dawg Millionaire
by Ramesh Richard If the 2009 Oscar-hogging Slum Dog Millionaire resonates with vicarious human yearnings, recent stories of millionaires and billionaires who have strayed into suicidal selfishness resonates with any one who is on the verge of personal loss during this time of global gloom. So [...]
Global Pandemic Crisis: Personal Heart Checks
by Ramesh Richard The Fall of 2001 alerted us to the need for personal safety and the Fall of 2008 to the need for financial security. The Spring of 2020 combines both realities into the most basic need for survival itself. And yet these different and [...]
Global Economic Crisis, Personal Heart Checks
by Ramesh Richard “How is the global financial crisis affecting you?” I asked a wealthy friend. He responded, “I’m having to reassess everything about money, especially my heart.” Reassessment should be a continuous heart-exercise. Solomon recommends that we constantly check our hearts, because the strategies of life [...]
Is God Pro-American? A Post-Election Reflection
by Ramesh Richard America’s democratic selection of a young, non-white, appealing and gifted visionary with a non-traditional name (including a Muslim middle name) has set off layers of responses worldwide. Here is mine, from a somewhat globally exposed and theologically engaged perspective. First, heartiest congratulations go to America, my [...]
The Ministry Problematic
by Ramesh Richard Unlikely victims . . . that’s often who we are: imprisoned in social realities we did not create and in global realities we cannot control. Yet we are called to minister for Christ inside these difficult realities, to fulfill God’s plan for the [...]
WORLD-GAINERS: 23rd UN International Prayer Breakfast
New York, New York by Ramesh Richard PhD, ThD Greetings & good morning! I am pleased and privileged for this opportunity of audience with you—distinguished leaders, who represent your nations on the global stage, and with special recognition to our host, His Excellency, President of the [...]
God’s Net Worth
by Ramesh Richard Our world is quite fascinated with high net-worth individuals, nearly 10 million of them, with investable assets of $1 million or more. I’d like you to total the net worth, book value, and market value of these 10 million elite—it wouldn’t amount to [...]
Everything Loosely, Nothing Lightly
by Ramesh Richard Slogans of spiritual surrender remind us to “let go and let God,” to “sit loose to things,” to “not hold things too tightly because when God pries open our fists, it hurts.” These powerful phrases address critical heart issues about our proneness to [...]
God, the Future and Me
by Ramesh Richard “Goldfish have a memory span of three seconds. They can’t even see the past, much less the future. But you can. With proven business intelligence and analytic software from …” says an ad from a predictive analytics software company. Anybody know how [...]
Reflective Deflection
by Ramesh Richard I was overwhelmed when Fred Smith*, my 91-year-old mentor and friend, surprised me at RREACH’s 20th anniversary banquet audience via an audio message. He told them about God’s good gifts in my life and a strong future of usefulness in the divine plan. Taken aback, [...]
RREACH IT!
by Ramesh Richard On this sweltering, summer day in my hometown of Chennai, India, I am getting ready to address two hundred bright and young professionals in a 110 degree, 98 percent humidity environment. These men and women are about the same age as when God [...]