I read a stat yesterday that I honestly don’t know what to do with.
“While 40 million people died of starvation in the last decade, chuches spent $10 billion on campuses.”
Anger was the first emotion.
Then disappointment.
Followed quickly by frustration.
And then I remembered the line that the article started with: “Thirty-four million [...]
It’s easy to get wrapped up in the institution of church. There are programs, teams and systems to run.
For me, when I heard of hungry people, I thought: we have a team that handles them.
I wasn’t engaged (or even aware) of the global water crises.
I really [...]
The Bible seems to be a book focused around helping God’s people remember.
One of the central stories is the story of God bringing his people out of Egypt. Freeing them from hundreds of years [...]
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