Star 03-01-11.pdf

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Hope_in_Financial_Hardship_and_Helping_Hand.pdf

Financial Hardship

I have worked as a financial counselor over the past couple years and have spoken with more than 2,500 individuals and families, all of them with common themes of financial hardship and difficulty in managing their money.

The majority of people I have spoken with are very humble, and often ashamed and fearful of their predicament. For many it is a great struggle to pick up the phone and ask for help. Being in financial hardship can be a difficult and terrible experience—it is also a very common one.

TCT Tear-Off December 2010.pdf

Treasuring Christ Together

TCT is our ongoing strategy to fulfill our mission through a multiplying movement of campuses, new churches, and a Global Diaconate, united by a common mission and founded on a common biblical life and doctrine.

Jericho_Road_Ministries.pdf

This coming January 3, Bethlehem Urban Initiatives (BUI) will launch Jericho Road Ministries, an urban outreach inspired by the parable of The Good Samaritan—a place where mercy meets crisis.

Luke 10:29-37

But the lawyer wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

Questions for Further Thought

TCT Tear-Off May 2010.pdf

Treasuring Christ Together

TCT is our ongoing strategy to fulfill our mission through a multiplying movement of campuses, new churches, and a Global Diaconate, united by a common mission and founded on a common biblical life and doctrine.

Global Diaconate Annual Report 2009.pdf

If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.—Isaiah 58:10

The West Virginia pastors who accepted Jack Whittaker's tithe on
his $170 million Powerball booty should be ashamed of themselves.
One of them said, "That's a blessing to have that kind of backing."
I don't think so.

Christ does not build his church on the backs of the poor. The
engine that delivers his righteousness in the world is not driven
by the desire to get rich. The gospel of Jesus Christ is not
advanced by undermining civic virtue. Let the pastors take their
silver and throw it back into the temple of greed.

Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and
rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up
for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust
destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where
your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22 The eye is the
lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will
be full of light, 23 but if your eye is bad, your whole body will
be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how