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When Hurting Helps 3: Redefining Poverty

Posted on 23 October 2014 by Seth Meyers

Read Part 1: A Popular Call to Some Good Things Read Part 2: Ignoring Churchplanting and Evangelism When Helping Hurts bases all of its practical tips on the first third of the book. It is refreshing to read a book … Continue reading →

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When Hurting Helps 2: Ignoring Churchplanting and Evangelism

Posted on 16 October 2014 by Seth Meyers

Read Part 1. With nearly 250,000 copies sold, When Helping Hurts is touching a nerve in the church. As I worked through the text keenly interested because of the ministry God has called me to, I was consistently disappointed. My … Continue reading →

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When Hurting Helps 1: A Popular Call to Some Good Things

Posted on 16 October 2014 by Seth Meyers

Poverty fighters need boldness to get at the root of endemic poverty. As Spurgeon said, “If you really long to save men’s souls, you must tell them a great deal of disagreeable truth.” And is that not the case in … Continue reading →

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Intellectual Sustenance of 2013

Posted on 13 January 2014 by Seth Meyers

Listed in the basic order that I read them this year, here are the books that I completed in 2013. By completed, I mean first that I grasped the author’s main point including his most significant arguments, and second, I … Continue reading →

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