CNN Belief Blog has a good post by Mark Lutz of Opportunity International which challenges popular misconceptions about the poor: Myth 1: People are poor because they are lazy or stupid. Poor people work incredibly hard, under harsh conditions, frequently...
Pastor David Platt on the American church and following Christ via the New York Times: The tension between good and plenty, God and mammon, became the central tension in American life, propelling ferocious energies and explaining why the U.S. is...
Jesus has a word for us: “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” And a story to illustrate his point here. In fact, the entire...
Things like this shake our faith. But sometimes our faith needs to be shaken to see if it’s real. - Jimmy Tower, pastor, Lifeway Fellowship Church, Killean, Texas HT & photo cred: USA Today
Moving from adoration to compassion in worship is a stretch for many of us. But the Scriptures tell us that if we love God, then we’ll obey God. If we really adore the beautiful things in God’s character, then we...
“He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me?” declares the LORD. Jeremiah 22:16 (ESV) (HT: John Piper via Twitter)
Creation composes a much better song than we ever could and I doubt any of us singers could compare with a choir of angels. But the one thing we can give God that nothing else can is a thankful and fully committed heart. We...
Great post here by Pastor Rick Duncan of Cuyahoga Valley Church in Cleveland which in part says: We know that we are not all we should be, but we read our Bibles. At least some. We pray. At least a...
“The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children...