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  • Suffering + Joy + Poverty = Wealth

    Contributed by Jason Jones on Jun 9, 2025
     | 79 views

    Sermon about giving based on the example of the Macedonians

    Background to passage: this is the beginning of a section composed of two chapters that deal heavily with giving. The two things we have to know is that the offering was supposed to go to the church in Jerusalem for relief from poverty, persecution, and famine; also that many Mediterranean churches ...read more

  • God Of The Poor - The Call To Charity And Justice

    Contributed by E Philip Davis on Mar 10, 2008
    based on 8 ratings
     | 11,368 views

    When we look at God’s word, we will realise that we must respond decisively to the poor in three ways; to be charitable, to seek justice, and to see poor people as God does.

    GOD OF THE POOR – THE CALL TO CHARITY AND JUSTICE God’s love for the poor Luke 16:19-23 "There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores and longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s ...read more

  • Joy Plus Poverty Equals Wealth

    Contributed by Joseph Smith on Jul 7, 2009
     | 3,459 views

    World Hunger Sunday, 1989: We will find joy in giving if we make our giving a priority, if it is done proportionately and sacrificially, and if we see it as a privilege.

    The notion is going around in some circles that poor people are happy people. Have you heard that? It’s a kind of romantic idea, that poor people are happy people, that when you have nothing you at least have each other, you at least depend on God … you know all the usual things that are said. I ...read more

  • The Beggar In Sanfrancisco

    Contributed by Benjamin Doolittle on Mar 29, 2002
    based on 58 ratings
     | 6,466 views

    Christine and I sat in the window. Directly across from us was a young women. She wore a greasy T-shirt. Her skin was pale, gray. She sat next to the garbage can. She seemed to blend into the concrete, part of the gray buildings, gray sky. Her grea

    Loving and Wonderful God, you have called us to be your family. We stand in a moment in time, upheld by the great cloud of witnesses. O God, open our eyes. Open our ears. Open our whole selves to the movement of your spirit through these words and our meditations. In Christ’s name we pray, ...read more

  • Preaching To The Poor, Part 2

    Contributed by Jerry Falwell on Apr 12, 2002
    based on 54 ratings
     | 4,064 views

    Preaching to the poor.

    “PREACHING TO THE POOR” Part 2 By Jerry Falwell A. INTRODUCTION 1. Review from last sermon. Preaching to the poor has always been important to the church. Listen to how important it was to Jesus to preach to the poor. When John the Baptist was put in prison, he became discouraged and ...read more

  • The End Of Christianity

    Contributed by Simon Rundell on Sep 7, 2001
    based on 65 ratings
     | 2,650 views

    A response to Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor’s statement that Christianity had been “all but eliminated” as a source of moral guidance in people’s lives, and that people were ‘indifferent’ to Christian values. Mission: the essential role of the Church

    Sermon: 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time; 9th September 2001 Text: Luke 14:25-33 “Anyone who does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple” In the name of the +Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. BBC News, last Thursday. The Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal ...read more

  • One Heart - One Voice

    Contributed by Larry Thompson on Jul 21, 2005
    based on 34 ratings
     | 25,959 views

    This message confronts the poverty and pandemic AIDS situation in Africa and calls for a biblical response from God’s people.

    ONE HEART – ONE VOICE – THE COMPASSION OF CHRIST LUKE 10:25-37 - ©DR. LARRY L. THOMPSON (2005) SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 2005 Introduction: On July 6th - 8th, President Bush and other G8 leaders will discuss the major social, political and economic conditions that leave nearly ONE billion people living in ...read more

  • How God See's The Poor

    Contributed by Ron Hicks on Sep 7, 2005
    based on 19 ratings
     | 5,812 views

    God’s attitude toward the poor, I believe, will cause you and I to look on them as we never have before.

    HOW GOD LOOKS AT THE POOR 1 Sam 2:7-8 7 The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up. 8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the ...read more

  • Blessed Are The Poor In Spirit Series

    Contributed by Eloy Gonzalez on Feb 29, 2004
    based on 70 ratings
     | 3,935 views

    Ash Wednesday: Christ’s name elicits jeers and rejection from those who don’t know Him. But for the poor in spirit, Christ is Savior, Son of the Living God.

    Why the outcry? Why the outcry when the name or the work of Jesus is mentioned in public? The reaction to the mention of the name is like splashing ice water on people. We see it in our own lives as the name of Jesus offends – sometimes family members; sometimes friends or neighbors. We see it in ...read more

  • How To Please God By Shopping

    Contributed by David Petticrew on Mar 16, 2004
    based on 48 ratings
     | 7,952 views

    A look at how God’s views issues like fair trade and exploitation and what an appropriate Christian response is.

    Introduction We have been looking at what it means to please God. We saw that it must start from faith. We also looked at what it means to please God with our minds and then this morning we looked at what it means to please God when we have disagreements. This evening we look at passage which tells ...read more

  • These Are The Days Of Elijah Part 3: The Year Of Jubilee Series

    Contributed by David Petticrew on Mar 16, 2004
    based on 85 ratings
     | 20,904 views

    Number 3 in a series looking at the imagery in the modern Hymn These are the days of Elijah, looking at the year of Jubilee and its implications both social and spiritual.

    Introduction In a recent Peanuts cartoon, Lucy approaches Charlie Brown with a paper and pen and says, “Here, sign this. It absolves me from all blame”. Then she goes to Shroeder with the same paper and says, “Here, sign this. It absolves me from all blame”. Finally she comes to Linus: “Here, sign ...read more

  • The Day Of Visitation

    Contributed by Darrell Jones on Jun 15, 2005
    based on 21 ratings
     | 6,435 views

    Whether as members of the church or government we have a responsibility to take care of the poor. Let’s look at what God’s Word has to say about those who neglect or oppress the poor.

    The rich continue to get richer and the poor get poorer. I have no problem with the rich who work for their wealth, but the problem lies with those who gain wealth at the expense of the poor. In our state for instance, our governor scaled back the $5 billion medicaid program for the poor. This ...read more

  • What Is Your Occupation?

    Contributed by Darrell Jones on Jul 11, 2005
    based on 34 ratings
     | 7,383 views

    Among the sins of Sodom, we find the sin of doing nothing. The question Pharoah asked in our text is a good question for us today? We answer the question is it a sin to do nothing.

    I once heard Granny Clampett say this about a man named Leif Crick, "he’s the only one I know who can get up in the morning with nothing to do, and at the end of the day he is only half done." In (Matthew 29:3, we find the word idle used, in the Greek it is rendered as a man without work. Friends, ...read more

  • Eating With The Enemy Series

    Contributed by Timothy Archer on Jan 13, 2004
    based on 29 ratings
     | 5,593 views

    Although the Pharisees had set a trap for him, Jesus used this dinner as time to teach on compassion for our fellow man.

    Eating with the Enemy Luke 14:1-24 Introduction: Several times in the book of Luke, we see that Jesus goes to eat in the house of a Pharisee. Here in Luke 14, we see the last of these encounters. What’s really interesting about this passage is that, during this one dinner, Jesus teaches on three ...read more

  • Reaching Out To The Poor Series

    Contributed by Wes Richard on Oct 10, 2005
    based on 24 ratings
     | 11,854 views

    The Bible commands us to feed the hungry and look out for the poor.

    Reaching out to the Poor Proverbs 14:31 Two events in recent months have turned the attention of our nation to the issue of poverty. One was the conference of the Group of 8 nations in July, where world leaders decided to cancel the debts of the 38 poorest nations of the world to help ...read more