Nurturing Truth & Confronting Lies

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 [...]

By |2018-04-30T13:44:55-05:00April 30th, 2018|Categories: Pray, Nurturing Truth & Confronting Lies|

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 [...]

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 [...]

By |2017-09-08T10:12:51-05:00July 4th, 2017|Categories: Pray, Nurturing Truth & Confronting Lies, Truth Centered Transformation|Tags: |

WDC: Breaking Lies

Beliefs can be powerful. They impact the way that we live, interact with others and see the future. For the students at the Wholistic Development Center (WDC), one of the most common and oppressive misbeliefs is that they have no [...]

Nurturing Truth and Confronting Lies – The Village Story

Reconciled World’s second Core Principle is “Nurturing Truth and Confronting Lies.” In a nutshell, this means that we believe that every culture and community holds onto some truths and some lies. To see a community thrive, we must nurture the truths [...]

How Truth Impacts Male/Female Relations in Communities

“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” Galatians 3:28. A recent survey conducted by UNFPA suggests that 60% of Indian men [...]

By |2017-09-08T10:04:33-05:00November 27th, 2014|Categories: Ending Gendercide, Nurturing Truth & Confronting Lies|Tags: , |

Nurturing the Sculpting Stone of Truth

I recently saw a video on Facebook of a baby elephant stumbling over a ledge and the mother elephant hurrying to help the baby up. Within a few moments the mother was right there to nurture and love the distraught [...]

By |2017-09-08T10:04:45-05:00November 24th, 2014|Categories: Nurturing Truth & Confronting Lies, Learn and Apply, 2:10|Tags: , |

How Truth Impacts Autism

Some of Reconciled World’s partners work to teach biblical truth to churches, young people, or other Christian groups. In His Image, on the other hand, works to demonstrate the impact of biblical truth on one specific vulnerable group–students with special [...]

By |2017-09-08T10:04:52-05:00November 20th, 2014|Categories: Nurturing Truth & Confronting Lies, In His Image, Stories|Tags: , |

What is Biblical Truth?

I remember the first time I heard the phrase "ideas have consequences." It’s a powerful idea, but left me initially skeptical. If true, it changes everything. Much of my work in development up until then had been focused on programs [...]

By |2017-09-08T10:04:59-05:00November 17th, 2014|Categories: Nurturing Truth & Confronting Lies, Learn and Apply, From the Directors|Tags: , |

Jenga and Truth: Why Ideas Have Consequences

My eyes are examining the leaning unstable tower with a calculated analysis of cause and effect. A gentle tug reveals the block is bearing full weight…a quick change of strategy. I now zoom in on a partly dislodged block on [...]

By |2017-09-08T10:05:11-05:00November 13th, 2014|Categories: Nurturing Truth & Confronting Lies, Learn and Apply|Tags: , |
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