Ghulam Singh

I was wondering does anyone know of any specific brands that are okay for Sikhs to eat as protein bars. As well, any thoughts on buying expired protein bars, that are a year old/or a couple of months old.. Thanks, GS

Another one died on Thursday, I wish Waheguru will help out all the brothers. All these thugs, or gangsters, are just really lost, they dont' know what their doing. Their just blinded by their greed, what do you guys think we can do about this. Perhaps, each and everyone needs to set a model to our younger kids in our family, then to our freinds, and our neighbours. This issue won't die out until the media finds out its the same elders who are really fuelling this, ie [the truckers + marijuana].

This was on www.businessweek.com, and I think it has something to do with our people as well, on how we spend so much money on babas, and how they promise us well get this and that. As you can see from the last line, you know what this guy is after.. Material things. waheguru. Church of the Mighty Dollar How do Rolls-Royces fit into God's plan? The founder of the World Changers Church International explains all With houses of worship in Atlanta, New York City, Australia, Europe, Nigeria, South Africa, and Britain, World Changers Church International is one of the largest and fastest-growing churches in the nation. Led by Pastor Creflo A. Dollar, a flamboyant African-American preacher, WCCI has some 25,000 members and an annual budget of more than $70 million. Advertisement His message, known as "prosperity gospel," implores followers to enrich themselves in every way, spiritually and financially, through the teachings of his church. Indeed, Pastor Dollar, whom critics have dubbed Pass The Dollar and Cashflow Dollar for his ostentatious displays of wealth, is not shy about his success. He owns two Roll-Royces and flies the country in a Gulfstream-3 private jet. Fellow Atlanta ministers, schooled in the humble tradition of Reverend Martin Luther King, have criticized the 43-year-old Dollar for putting money before ministry. WCCI members can tithe online by setting up automatic account withdrawals managed by the church. But Dollar's message is resonating with many evangelicals, especially poor blacks drawn to the idea of pulling themselves out of poverty because the Bible willed it so. A new church in rented space in New York's Madison Square Garden has drawn 5,000 members in the last three months. WCCI is adding between 2,000 and 3,000 members per year. It will soon launch a Spanish-language church led by a Mexican priest, targeted at Atlanta's booming Hispanic immigrant population. BusinessWeek correspondent Brian Grow sat down with Dollar in his Atlanta offices to find out what "prosperity gospel" means and how seeking wealth is part of the holy bargain. Q: How did you decide that prosperity gospel was your calling? A: I grew up poor. I came from the ghetto of College Park [a suburb on the south side of Atlanta]. When I became a born-again Christian, the Bible appeared to be the book that addressed every other problem. It addressed the problem of depression, marriage, family, character, integrity. I figured there has to be something in here about how to conduct yourself where money is concerned. We teach people what the Bible has to say about the spirit, family, marriage. But now we have found all of these scriptures where the Bible talks about finances. The Bible talks more about money than it talks about heaven. I really believe with all my heart that it was my calling in life to teach people about total life prosperity -- including money. I began to teach people on welfare and in ghettos. We have a mentoring program where we put people in low income areas, and they literally walk people out of their situation by changing the way they think. If you can change the way a man thinks, you can change a man. If he is thinking according to the Word, then he will begin to prosper. We teach the Biblical principles of prosperity. Some of these people now own their own business, are making six-figure salaries. Q: How do you measure the success of the Church? A: Success is when you can accomplish the will of God for your life. If you're not doing what God called you to do but you've gained a lot of material things, that's not necessarily successful. Q: Describe your faith-management philosophy. A: You should have people who are professional, able, and faithful. We don't like to see things like the Little House on the Prairie Church where the preacher shows up and preaches a sermon, but when problems come up, all we want to do is pray for people. People are not just looking for a handout, but a hand-up. Q: Is there any one segment that you have identified as key potential members to target? A: Middle-aged black women. At the same time, as a predominantly black ministry, when we go on the road, we see a high incidence of whites in our ministry, too. We're getting ready to start a Spanish church, too. It has 60 members and will be led by a preacher from Mexico. We interpret in Portuguese and French and Spanish on Sunday. We're going from being a predominantly black church to having more whites and ethnic groups. Q: What's the racial breakdown? A: It's probably 80% blacks and 5% to 6% whites, with the rest from other ethnic groups. Maybe at one point our society felt it wasn't comfortable or couldn't learn anything from a black man. I think maybe that is changing. Q: What were revenues for the church in 2004? A: They were a little more than $70 million. Q: How much of the $70 million goes back to members in a year? A: Most of it does. It takes money to pay staff, have services, to provide the 60 ministries that we have. Thirty million dollars goes into television each year. It takes money to impact lives. Every year, we pay $57,000 to have this church audited by the largest audit firm around -- Grant Thornton. We give our members the opportunity to come to the accounting department to look at the books. If you're going to ask people to trust you, then you're going to have to do things that will make it easy for them to trust you. Q: Catholic priests and other ministers have taken vows of poverty or vowed to live meekly. There is a model of your G3 jet in your office. Why are you so open about taking advantage of the wealth this church has given you? A: Because the Bible says so. It's amazing the number of people who say they read the Bible, and I think, "What are you reading?" The Bible makes it so very clear: Preach the Gospel to the poor. What's the Gospel to the poor? You don't have to be poor anymore! The Bible says in Psalms 35 and 37 that God takes pleasure in the prosperity of his servants. Poverty is a curse. We have tried to equate humility and poverty, but it's just not sound. It's a curse. Jesus came to set us free from the curse of the law. Sin, death, sickness, and poverty are parts of that curse. One of the things that I want to do is make sure that I am practicing what I preach. It is so important. My church gave me a Rolls-Royce. I would never spend that much money on a Rolls-Royce for several reasons. But when your church congregation -- 20,000 at that time -- come to you and say, "Pastor, we want you to drive the best," I'm not going to turn that down. It would be a dishonor to the people that gave it to me

Holy ... Man, I have never seen that much sangat at all. Woah,, too bad I had to work

Hi Mod, can you delete this topic. I just dont' want to cause any controversy or anything.

www.ishwar.com or www.ishwar.org You can find sri guru granth sahib ji, quran, bible, torah, everything on there. Its a really good site, check out Bhagat Farid Ji's saloks. Sorry to my fellow Sikhs, I was just 'warning haa, my fellow brothers/sisters that if they ever wanted to read the bible, you would tire of it after a bit, because it gets sort of hazy, and doesn't really interest you at all. I guess I shouldn't have brought it up. My friend is a pretty devout christian, and I guess he was just trying to do his bit to give me a little insight into what the bible is, I just didn't take it the wrong way.

I tried reading the bible after a friend recommended it, but I sort of got bored after genesis. Melusa begat this guy, and this guy begat that guy, and that guy begat that guy. Word of advice, you may fall asleep.

I definitely respect Baba ji, I just had one question, would anyone know Babaji if they weren't in DVDS, CDS? Do media companies have a hand at which babajis are more popular? I honestly think baba ji should go to all the small pinds, where they have caste issues, it seems like they come here, but I dont' think none of the babaji's have affected the youth of Canada/States as Bhai Bikramji Singh ji did. However, Baba ji is awesome parcharak, everyone should go... IF you can find room

I am Canadian

Simran paaji, Basically the gurdwara program is at night starting from 7 to about 9 outside on Thursday,Friday,Saturday at Dasmesh Darbar. I guess the parking lot is gonna be used for the outside stage, its gonna be pretty massive on friday/saturday, I think maybe people might turn out in the thousands to see baba ji perform kirtan. If your taking skytrain, you can take the busses to 128th and 96th and its a couple of blocks away from there.

Whtas the best way to immigrate to America on a student visa, I was thinking of moving to the state of New York. Can I become an american citizen, if I pass the citizenship test?

Hey singho, I am wondering maybe if someone can give me an idea. The problem is my folks have been telling me to goto school, I have been working on and off for the last 3 years. The thing with school is I try learning stuff, but it just doesnt' go into my head. I have concenteration issues, and just my memory is extremely slow, and I am really weak in Math. It doesn't lead any doors open. I was just wondering if anyone had any suggestions, I am all out

Khalistan Zindibad Sant Jarnal Singh Ji Khalsa Bhindranwale Zindibad Dal Khalsa Zindibad Hindustan Murdabad.

I honestly don't get what the big deal with is about giving a gora or a hindu a karra. Like my neighbour a gora, when he was a kid , he would come to the gurdwara with us. His mom begged me to take him to the sikh temple and stuff. My cousins, sort of like family friends, there hindus right, but listen though, the smalleest one comes to my house and asks veerji, help me do a report on sikhism. Some punjabi hindus consider themselves believers of guruji first than even hindusim, though they might have a kara. I think thats sharda.. People get so insane, guru ji was probably the most secular and tolerant individual ever to live and people get scared a gora wears a karra. Showem what the karra stands for, take him to gurughar and I am sure he'll/shee'll feell better that you did.

They should have shown the picture of Tara Hayer distributing ladoos after nov 984, when Indira Kuthi died...

I use Joico or Paul Michell, you need to go to the Salon to get those products. But honestly 2 weeks away from the stuff you can feel it, I use Joico [Kerapro] and the conditioner all the time.

Whats' next, what about short sikhs. They wont' be able to defend themselves.. Lame topic

Pheena Bhanji, acutally got it right. My neighbour is a reverend, and he comes by sometimes and tells me stories. And he basically said in a story that a rich mans main fear is losing his wealth. :TH:

Someone told me whats the misery for a rich man.. What do you guys think it is..

Really well said by the paanji who basically demonstrated what the issues are with the So called SSA. I am sure paanji can pick up some pointers from some of the youth organizations here in BC, particularly Gurmat Studies, or UBC Sikh Association.

Maybe you guys should work out the matter, if not people just go to sikhnet.com or some other forums for sikh related info.

Hi guys, Had a question, does anyone know I can create a spattered paint look in photoshop? If you guys know of a way using brushes or some of the filters. Thanks

Hi, I was wondering if there are any Singhs-Singhnees, good in webpage designing, flash, and could implement paypal on a site. Its basically a clothing site, where people could buy items. Also I am willng to pay upto $250 USD to any brothers through paypal, if they can help out. Thanks.

I actually have some Khalistani magazines from Punjab, maybe I should scan them, theres a biography of Bhai Sahiab in it as well.

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