In both cases, the goal is to help the person back to self-sufficiency. But the strategies in each case are different — often profoundly so. Relief The goal of relief is to meet pressing, urgent needs that are causing great hardship to a person or group. You don’t worry about things like “dependency” here; you […]
Archives for August 2013
One of the Most Important Sermons Any Christian Can Ever Read
Jonathan Edwards’ The Christian Duty of Charity to the Poor.
27 Tweets from Jesus
This is a great post by Adam Jeske on whether Twitter is shallow and whether Jesus would use it. He starts: I get frustrated when people say social media (and Twitter in particular) is shallow. I get especially frustrated when my well-intentioned Christian friends say this. Because we use incredibly short phrases that are really […]
A Simple Way to Pray
Just came across this book at Ligonier Ministries called A Simple Way to Pray. It contains a short booklet Martin Luther wrote for his barber on how to pray. RC Sproul had this to say about Luther’s pamphlet: “No book has done more to revolutionize my personal prayer life than this little book by Martin Luther.” That’s quite […]
Biblical Typology in Romans 11:34-35
My friend, Andy Naselli, somehow was amazing enough at managing his time and work to obtain 2 PhDs. His second dissertation was published last summer, and as with everything he writes, it is incredibly clear and well argued. It’s called From Typology to Doxology: Paul’s Use of Isaiah and Job in Romans 11:34-35. For any […]