Compassion means to suffer with. Simply giving a handout is not really suffering unless you can count missing out on a five-dollar cup of coffee as suffering. To be a poverty warrior it is critical that you decide if you are really open to suffering with these men and women. Breaking addiction is painful. …
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D-Day in the War on Poverty Part 21
I have become wary of anyone that declares that one solution exists to solve homelessness. Many of these make intuitive sense. Make more housing, get people housed first. That makes a great deal of sense. I am sure that if I worked at a center that never had contact with the actual homeless, I…
Knowing God Part 19
“Now a certain ruler asked Him, saying, ‘Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?’ So Jesus said to him, ‘Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God’” (Luke 18:18-19). My prayer was that I would be saved from the humility of having to seek help…
Poverty Warrior Part 20
You too need to take time to discover your true identity. Once you discover that identity, make the deliberate choice to live in it. For example, if God created you to be a tractor, be the best tractor that you can be. But for many in our world we are not accepting of the tractor…
