Posted in General on May 16th, 2010
Have you ever wondered how rich or poor you are compared to everyone else? You might be surprised when you see what percentage you fall under using the following website’s simple calculator, based on your annual income figure. I realize the statistics are from a couple years ago, but the point is not lost. www.globalrichlist.com [...]
Posted in General on Apr 30th, 2010
One sign that you have made success an idol is the false sense of security it brings. The poor and the marginalized expect suffering, they know what life on this earth is “nasty, brutish, and short.” Successful people are much more shocked and overwhelmed by troubles. As a pastor, I’ve often heard people from the [...]
Posted in General on Apr 25th, 2010
Last Sunday my church started handing out cardboard boxes for us to fill up with a grocery checklist of food necessities for the poor. We gave the ready-to-deliver “Food Paks” to Children’s Hunger Fund so that they could respond to needs in the Los Angeles community down near Grace Community Church, as well as across [...]
Posted in General on Aug 12th, 2009
Back in June there was a phrase that Gunner used on rawchristianity.com, “argument from silence,” that caught my attention. He used it in reference to possibly our culture’s most powerful method of convincing us that God is not important. I’d like to briefly add to this suggestion that we, both as a whole culture and as [...]
