How to Live a Purposeful, Not-Boring Life: Don’t spend all your money on yourself, your kids and your grandkids. If you tithe / give to your church, don’t act like the rest of your 90% is meant for you to hoard. Like it’s all yours because you earned it. (Where did this mindset ever come from?) Make […]
North Miami Police Shoot a Black Therapist Helping His Patient; What to Pay Attention to from Here #CharlesKinsey
Whether the rest of America wants to admit it or not, black people have to fear for their lives every day living in this country. They’ve been trying to tell us this for years now. I do hope we start listening soon. Please watch this 4-minute video of Charles Kinsey, a black therapist helping a […]
Interview with World Relief Haiti Country Director Joseph Bataille
Noah Filipiak interviews World Relief’s Haiti Country Director, Joseph Bataille. Haiti was the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere before the 2010 earthquake and even more so after. All this despite millions and millions of dollars of international aid over the course of decades. Noah and Joseph have a “behind the curtain” conversation about how […]
Away from Dependency and Toward Development: Helping the Poor in a Way that Works
All Christians know the Bible is full of commands to love and help the poor. The Old Testament is chock full of them, and the New Testament only adds to the pile. Proverbs 14:31 “Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.” Proverbs 19:17 Whoever […]
Despite Hyde Amendment, Your Tax Dollars are Providing 300,000+ Abortions Annually from Planned Parenthood
The Hyde Amendment states that federal tax dollars cannot be used to perform abortions. You can read the specifics of the amendment here. Planned Parenthood does a ballpark of 300,000 – 350,000 abortions per year and around 45% of their revenue–$540.6 million–is provided by federal tax dollars. This is a classic “6 one way, half-a-dozen […]
Protesting Planned Parenthood: Abortions, Selling Baby Parts for Profit While Getting My Tax Dollars
I attended one of 300 nationwide protests of Planned Parenthood this morning, along with 175 other people in Lansing, MI. I’ve never attended a protest before, but after seeing this invitation and explanation from Pastor John Piper and doing some homework on what Planned Parenthood has been up to, I decided to attend this one. […]