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The poor

February 23, 2012 by Jon Davis Jr.

Worldview Determines Solutions to Poverty

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Why do some argue that the government needs to act in order to help the poor while others argue that helping the poor should be left in private hands?

Is this primarily a political question of Democrat vs. Republican or Liberal vs. Conservative?

Or is it a worldview question?

Darrow Miller and Gary Brumbelow have written an article that shows some of the worldview roots to these two perspectives.

Here are my summaries on the four perspectives that they discussed:

Filed Under: Blog, Reformation, Worldview Tagged With: Poverty, The poor, Worldview

February 20, 2012 by Jon Davis Jr.

Christian Robin Hood?

From Gary B’s Blog:

"President Obama recently said income inequality is ‘the defining issue of our time.’ Seriously? Is

Filed Under: Blog, Worldview Tagged With: Barack Obama, Civil Government, Gary B., Income Equality, Poverty, Taxes, The poor

February 16, 2012 by Jon Davis Jr.

Don’t Look Down On The Poor

Have you ever turned on the TV and seen pictures of starving children covered in flies followed by an appeal to help the poor?

In order to really help the poor we need to stop seeing them as victims and instead see their potential as children of God.

Here is a video with some thoughts along these lines from a worker in Nicaragua:

[youtube width=”660″ height=”371″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny1pBWyRyCU[/youtube]

Here is a link to the video and some excerpts at the PovertCure.org website: http://www.povertycure.org/voices/anielka-mnkel/#When:23:13:22Z

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