Post Tagged with: "compassion"

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  on growing compassion

  now serving, poverty, SERVE 10 comments

  “Compassion inflicts its knife-like pain only on those who, strong or not, brave or not, intelligent or not (such qualities are beside the point), have been granted the horrible gift of looking the world full in the face and seeing it as it is.”   – Marguerite Yourcenar, French novelist and [...]

   
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  when life goes on

  for reflection, PRAY 6 comments

  Editor’s Note: Read part one of this story… how to love the ones who don’t love you I clean the cat box and elbow the 51 inch TV draped in a shroud on the screened in porch. It’s another thing that didn’t fit in the storage unit. There are now two china [...]

   
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  1 john 3:11-24 [love one another]

  authentic christianity, bible literacy, READ 0 comments

  Read 1 John 3:11-24 (ESV, NIV, The Message). Talk is cheap. You’ve heard it a thousand times, yet it seemingly is so hard to grasp. What I learned as a communication arts student in college is something that I’ve seen reinforced in my ministry over and over again: What you say is as important [...]

   
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  20 books @bibledude readers are reading right now [march 2012]

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  I’m not surprised a lot by this month’s list of what BibleDude.net readers are getting themselves into. It was a month when I was on a mission trip to Haiti doing a great deal of work with orphans and the poor. So to see several books on these issues on [...]

   
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  the street

  activist faith, engaged in culture, poverty 0 comments

  I lay in my bed and see the people on the street. My imagination goes wild. What might it be like to be one living on the street? To have no cool place to lay my head at night. No shelter from the storms that come. To have no privacy, [...]

   
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  the mini-fridge

  for reflection, poverty 7 comments

  I stand up and stretch my legs for a moment. I need to do it more often, because having a desk job like mine can easily result in poor circulation (causing a whole bunch of other health problems). Somehow I feel like staring at the computer monitor for too long [...]

   
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  hunger pains

  authentic christianity 3 comments

  Read Matthew 14:13-21 Working in the church I have seen and interacted with people living in complete poverty. Over the years I have given a family a basket of food from the food pantry when they come knocking on the church door at 4:45 on a Friday afternoon and I [...]