Sermon Illustrations about Poverty
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Give What You Don't Need
What keeps you from giving now? Isn't the poor man there? Aren't your own warehouses full? Isn't the reward promised? The command is clear: ...
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Watch Where You're Giving
I will never forget a woman who came to the food pantry at our church. She also needed a little money to pay her next month's rent. When she came ...
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Mother Teresa's Math
When faced with the question about how she could hope to make an impact on Calcutta's 3,000 slums with refugees pouring in daily, Mother Teresa said, ...
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The Unselfish Archbishop
When John Chrysostom became archbishop of Constantinople, he sold expensive works of art his predecessors had acquired. He refused to give lavish dinner ...
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God of the Super Bowl?
Luke DeRoeck of Chicago, in a letter to the editor: "To suggest that God really cares about the outcome of a sporting event is preposterous. Conservatively, ...
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Example of the Innkeeper
The innkeeper who gave Mary and Joseph a Christmas Eve cave should be a holiday model for Christians as they celebrate the birth of the Messiah. That's ...
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Indifference to Poverty
The well-off and the secure have too often become indifferent and oblivious to the poverty and the deprivation in their midst. The poor have been shut ...
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Puritan Economics
American Puritans were hardworking but not capitalists in the modern sense. They placed common welfare ahead of self-interest and set modest caps on profit-making. ...
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Let Them Eat Bread
The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbours, for everybody, is a spiritual and religious question. ...
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Ingenuity's Outcasts
The children of these [poor, urban] neighborhoods are not suffering by mistake. They are the outcasts of our nation's ingenuity. We lock them up in ...
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