Dignity of Every Human
Sometimes it’s hard to get motivated to serve the poor. As Keller points out in Chapter 5 of Generous Justice, most people know they should share with others and help the poor, but they lack the motivation. So how do [...]
God Gave Us A House
God gave us our house. Really. My ownership of our current house is a set of miracles that is hard to believe. It started from the day we decided to sell our old apartment. We looked at the calendar and [...]
A Family Moves Home
Helping the ‘undeserving’ can be difficult at times. Like Glynka stated on Wednesday, “It is natural, if I think I kind of deserve good things, to think that people who “got themselves into a mess” are getting what they deserve [...]
The Undeserving Poor
The problem is, I grew up in church. I raised my hand to receive Jesus when I was five years old. And, yeah, a few more times after that just to make sure it stuck. Have you ever been jealous [...]
Justice and Your Neighbor
One of the most famous and taught parables in the Bible is the parable of the Good Samaritan. I remember as a kid learning a street drama that was used on a mission’s trip that followed the dialogue of the [...]
Why Should We Serve the Poor?
I’ve just returned from a two month trip to North America. It was a great trip, although visiting 16 cities in that time frame is EXHAUSTING. Happy to be home to recover. One of the things that my husband and [...]
The Dichotomy of the Modern Church
Keller starts off chapter 3 with a story about a woman in one of his former churches. The deacons in his church gave the woman some money to help her with expenses and in the minds of the deacons she [...]
Our Calling to the Poor
As I read through chapter three, a few things stuck out to me. One of those things was Keller’s statement that “… we should spend far more of our money and wealth on the poor than we do our own [...]
Why are People Poor?
What causes poverty? That’s the age old question. If we really want to see transformation we need to know what’s causing poverty and therefore how to address it. Keller finishes chapter two by sharing how a multitude of factors work [...]
Biblical Business – Azizi Life
On of the things that stood out to us in chapter two of Generous Justice was this passage (pg 30): But what do the gleaning laws reveal to us about God’s will for our relationships? Why was it that landowners were [...]