Poverty is the result of injustice. We must fight it not only with charity, but with the courage to change unjust systems.
04298 – Poverty & Courage
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04278 – Every Moment is an Opportunity
Pain changes shape, but it never disappears. You can’t control what hurts or breaks you, but you can control how you choose to move forward. Fight for what you love, because no one else will do it for you. Every moment in your life is an opportunity to change who you...
04247 – Beautiful Butterfly
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
04196 – Never Too Late
One of the curses of historyis that we cannot go back and change the course leadingto disasters, no matter how much we might wish to.The past has its own terrible inevitability.But it is never too late to change the future.
04169 – Colossal Misunderstanding
The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being...
04100 – Transforming the World
I’ve noticed something about people who make a difference in the world: They hold the unshakable conviction that individuals are extremely important, that every life matters. They get excited over one smile. They are willing to feed one stomach, educate one mind, and...
04000 – It’s a Dangerous Thing…
It's a dangerous thing, though, to confuse the church with God. The church is not and never has been divine, even in the moments where it has been a channel for healing and hope and change. But while I stand by those words, the truth is that I have never been able to...
03991 – Compassion, not Control
Christmas reminds us that God didn’t become an emperor controlling an empire. God didn’t become a general commanding legions. God didn’t become a creed, a Bible, or a set of doctrines to be imposed. God became a helpless baby born to a poor family desperately in need...
03969 – Hope & Despair, Change & Will
Hope is not blind faith that things will get better. It's a realistic belief that things can get better. Despair is an illusion of certainty. Hope is an appreciation of possibility. Change requires a way. There is no way without will. There is no will without...
03944 – Need to Make Significant Changes?
One of the great deceptions many dying churches believe is that they don't need to make any significant changes; they just need a pastor to help them continue doing what they have always done.