Going Broke With Jesus
Kalinda Rose Stevenson, Ph.D.  

Archive for May, 2008

What The Bible Says About The Poor Widow Is Not What You Were Taught

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

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What the Bible says about the poor widow in the temple is often used as a model of sacrificial Christian giving.
This is what I learned in Sunday School. When I went to Sunday School, the major topic of many of our opening exercises was raising money for the poor. We made little church-shaped cardboard [...]

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Do The Beatitudes Teach That Christian Believers Must Be Poor?

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Do the Beatitudes teach that Christian believers must be poor to get into Heaven?  One of the most common misunderstandings about what the Bible says about money is the idea that Jesus advocated poverty for believers, based on the words “blessed are the poor.”
The statement, “blessed are the poor,” occurs in the Beatitudes in both [...]

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