Entry four of a six-part seriesWhen I think of the word servant I think of a cupbearer, someone kneeling at the side of the king ready to meet his every thirsting need. Or a farmhand, shoveling manure or cleaning off [...]
Entry two of a six-part seriesHave you ever read one of those self-help books? For those of you who haven’t or aren’t familiar with the term a self-help book is a book written with the intention of instructing you, the [...]
Entry one of a six-part series “Imagine for a moment how you would feel if you were in their shoes…” It was a phrase I heard many times as a kid. I remember vividly the birthday party that really helped [...]
I remember when I first walked into the doors of the Wholistic Development Center (WDC). It was filled with energy and joy. The students were working on a project and while doing so were smiling, laughing and rapidly talking back and [...]
In seminary I had a professor that compared our course work to that of drinking from a fire hydrant. You catch what you can and let the rest flow by. To some degree, that is how When Helping Hurts, was [...]
I remember about 8 years ago sitting in a Chipotle restaurant with a group of friends after church. We were talking, when a gentleman walked in and asked for money. He said something about his car being broken down on [...]
There was a pastor that had worked at a small rural church for many years. During his time there, he had requested from the congregation numerous times the possibility of moving the piano from one side of the platform to [...]
Though poverty is often seen through the eyes of the homeless or unemployed there are many hard working people in our nation struggling to stay afloat. They are called the “working poor.” The working poor can be defined as: People [...]
Short-term missions (STM) trips. What does that phrase bring to your mind? For most that phrase brings back memories of sleeping under mosquito nets, eating unknown foods and being pricked with immunizations for diseases that sound very scary. (gamma goblin [...]
I have never worked in corporate America but from the little I know it seems to operate according to results. If the numbers are rising, the stocks are growing, the network is expanding and the profits are increasing then all [...]
