Good News for the Poor
Good News for the Poor: “The Means for Peace
Pastor Anatoliy Byelyy from Harvest City Church (Executive Pastor) will reflect on the peace that Jesus, our Messiah, brings while reflecting on the current war in his home coun...
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Good News for the Poor: “Not So Fast”
Discipleship to Jesus is costly, it’s extreme and it’s not to be entered into lightly. Are we ready to reorganize our lives around the kingdom? Will we go the distance […]
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Good News for the Poor: “Kingdom First”
Can we safely reorganize our lives around the kingdom of God that is present in Jesus Christ? Don’t we need to be wise and “help ourselves?” There is a tension […]
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Good News For The Poor: “Live Like It’s the Last Day”
“Fool” is a biblical term and category. It is the title given to the person who behaves as if there were no God or like God cannot see or like […]
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Good News for the Poor: “Fatherly Gifts”
The basis for all prayer is the object being prayed to. For many “God” can be a foreign “thing” that we need to manipulate with fervency to “get what we […]
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Good News for the Poor: “Desire Mercy”
The parable of the good Samaritan is a story about movement: a man was going down, robbers appear, a priest is also going down, then a Levite, then a Samaritan. […]
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Good News For The Poor: “Disrupted Discipleship”
It is always tempting to try to dictate the terms of our own discipleship. Of course, if we actually did this, what we would have wouldn’t be discipleship. No, true […]
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Good News For The Poor: “Sent Home Filled”
Too often we make a separation between physical and spiritual hunger and fulfillment. Jesus doesn’t indulge our “either/or” dichotomy. Rather, he desires to fill all people with...
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Good News For The Poor: “Untrained Faith”
What does a faith (trusting, committed, belief that leads to action) that saves look like? Do we turn to a Mother Theresa or a Martin Luther King Jr.? Jesus and […]
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Good News For The Poor: “Religiously Disturbed”
Who are the people that are automatically rejected in our thinking? In Jesus’s day these were the tax-collectors. Betrayers of their own people and collaborating with the foreig...
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Good News For The Poor: “An Unexpected Catch”
The medium is the the message. This well known axiom reminds us of the importance of how we communicate, not just what. So, it is no accident that Jesus, who […]
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Good News For The Poor: “Winning the Unpopular Vote”
God in his grace comes to the poor and the needy with salvation. But, are we prepared to view ourselves in these terms? Are we prepared to embrace The Suffering […]
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