Prayer Topic: Poverty
Poverty is often caused by societal systems that favor some people over others. And those systems are fed by broken beliefs
Praying for Widows
I had the opportunity to visit India a few months ago. While I was there, I met and talked with a widow named Nagamani. She was young—I’m guessing under thirty. Yet when she lost her husband, she felt her life [...]
Prayer: Do the Poor Really Need My Help?
Confession time: I am a bleeding heart. As hard as I have worked my entire adult life to understand the root causes of poverty and the best, most biblical ways to relate with vulnerable people, I still want to empty [...]
Rooted and Built up in Him
Be a man challenge: Real men don’t beat their wives. Real men act respectfully with women. Real men help around the house. Real men don’t make family decisions without discussing it with their wives. Are you a real man? The [...]
Partnering with Churches: What Does That Really Mean?
Reconciled World is a community of programs that apply biblical truth to brokenness in a wide range of circumstances. We have all committed to the principle of partnering with churches, but that doesn’t mean we all do it perfectly or identically. We are all at different places on the journey. But we are all striving for the same goal–that the church would take its rightful place at the center of God’s transformational plan.
Jesus in the Face of the Poor
This blog was originally posted on July 30, 2014 A few months ago I was talking to an acquaintance who owns several rental properties in town. He mentioned to me that one of his homes was open and that he [...]
Pray: Fatalism
I’ve just spent a month in Africa teaching the TCT program. One of the big things we look at during trainings are the beliefs that keep people locked in poverty. There are many. The South Sudanese team shared some really [...]
Savings Groups as Transformational Development
In When Helping Hurts, Brian Fikkert writes, “Development is not done to people or for people, but with people.” He talks a lot about savings groups as an example of good “with” type development. Our friends John and Kate Marsden [...]
Pray: Refugees
My earliest memory of being aware of refugees even existing simply involves sitting in a living room with a family I couldn’t talk to (because we didn’t speak the same language), and being served my first cup of Turkish coffee [...]
Housebuilding: TCT Asia
God is at work through the church. This video tells the story of an Act of Love from a community we work with in Asia. It's an inspiring example of how their church is being obedient to God and loving their [...]