Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 25, 2002
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OBESITY OR POVERTY
A February 2002 issue of National Geographic says the Worldwatch Institute has issued its annual State of the World report. Almost every global environmental indicator has worsened over the last ten years and the gap between rich and poor has gotten wider. Over 1 billion
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Contributed by Richard Goble on Nov 16, 2007
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Poverty Perspective
In Hollywood there is an exclusive school attended by children of movie stars, producers, and directors. Asked to write a composition on the subject of poverty, one little girl started her literary piece: "Once there was a poor little girl. Her father was poor, her mother was
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Baptist
Contributed by Anne Benefield on Mar 5, 2009
TRUE POVERTY
The second theme in our passage is to strengthen and support the weak and the suffering. My friend at the Gazette also mentioned visiting his daughter in Kenya when she was a Peace Corp volunteer out in the desert areas in the western part of the country. He said that trip had
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Charles Jones on Jun 30, 2012
THE SPIRIT OF POVERTY
If:
You justify your lack and make excuses.
You are afraid to give under the direction of the Holy Spirit.
You govern your finances with a lack of trust and don't believe God is your source.
Your are suspicious that those around you may take your money.
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Pentecostal
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POVERTY BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF
On the corner of Park Row and Beekman Street, New York City, where Horace Greeley’s Statue now stands, stood a man offering $20 gold pieces for $1 each. All day he kept up loudly announcing his wares, but of the thousands that passed him, most paid no attention and
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Gratitude is riches. Complaining is poverty. Instead of complaining about whats
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Contributed by T D on Dec 28, 2010
WAR ON POVERTY FAILS
I don't think any of us would consider ourselves to be wealthy when it comes to the top level of money makers in the USA, and while we clearly are not as well off as we were a year ago, our level of wealth and possibilities of being able to make a living far surpasses most
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Evangelical Free
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In an article in Time Magazine on global poverty, specifically on the efforts of rock star Bono of the group U2, March 4, 2002:
The model for a new approach is Jubilee 2000, which campaigned with great success to reduce developing world debt. Jubilee 2000 was based in Europe, not the U.S., and
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Baptist
Mother Teresa said, “The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"As a remedy against all ills poverty, sickness and melancholy only one thing is
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