C. Briggs
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When Helping Hurts
- How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
- By: Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert
- Narrated by: Brendan Hunter
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it. When Helping Hurts shows how some alleviation efforts, failing to consider the complexities of poverty, have actually (and unintentionally) done more harm than good. But it looks ahead. It encourages us to see the dignity in everyone, to empower the materially poor, and to know that we are all uniquely needy - and that God in the gospel is reconciling all things to himself.
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A must read
- By Diana Kamidi on 07-31-21
- When Helping Hurts
- How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
- By: Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert
- Narrated by: Brendan Hunter
Give more, but to ministries helping long-term.
Reviewed: 12-11-22
This book is obviously teaching us how and why we must be wiser in our efforts to help those in poverty. But let me save you some time, money, and effort: the simple solution is to give whatever you can, of your heart, money, time, knowledge, and efforts, to ministries that are using proven methods that can be expected to have sustained results.
The book is helpful if you want to build your expertise in this, but I found the book to be intimidating to the average church-goer (if I fall into that category). I owned the book for years and only now made it past the first chapter, and that only because I found myself in contact with a desperate person in the midst of a "majority world" famine.
It is a well-written and useful book, but I think its very existence creates a problem without providing a solution. For me, the title is putting to words a feeling so many of us have had, then increasing the burden. Allow me put the burden to words: "your giving is probably making things worse, and now you must become an expert in establishing ministries and relationships that you have no experience with or access to." Does anybody else see that? That's why I tried to distill the contents of this book for anyone who isn't sure they would benefit from reading it: just focus on ministries that are providing help that lasts.
And give more. The authors said it a few times, but somehow churchgoers aren't getting the message. We are not our own.
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Shadow of the Almighty
- By: Elisabeth Elliot
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Elliot
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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The circumstances of the death of these men are by now known throughout the world in one of the great missionary adventure stories of modern times. But this is the first account of the whole life of one of them, a life that, though "hid with Christ in God", was in part revealed in some of the most poignant and moving spiritual writings of our time.
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Read by the Author?
- By David et al on 08-23-12
- Shadow of the Almighty
- By: Elisabeth Elliot
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Elliot
Excellent example for Americans to follow Christ
Reviewed: 10-24-21
I love this book! It's hard to figure out how we're supposed to follow Jesus in this modern world. how do we sell our possessions? give to the poor? store up treasures in heaven? renounce everything and take up our cross? how do we lose our life that we may keep it? this was one life that really helps illustrate Jesus to the world, filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions. let us all turn and follow Jesus. otherwise we are condemned already.
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How to Be Filled with the Holy Spirit
- By: A. W. Tozer
- Narrated by: Tom Hatting
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
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This little audiobook is hard to swallow. In it, A. W. Tozer teaches plainly who the Spirit is and why we should desire him but why few of us do. He instructs us in how to be filled with the Spirit but first poses this question: Do you really want to be filled?
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Do you want to be filled with the Holy Spirit?
- By Carl A. Dixon on 05-12-18
- How to Be Filled with the Holy Spirit
- By: A. W. Tozer
- Narrated by: Tom Hatting
Speaks to everything I'm going through.
Reviewed: 05-16-20
I've been falling in my sins long enough. I've been getting destroyed by them. When will I experience the promises of Christ? Have I actually believed? Have I actually surrendered? Have I been saved? This book is very encouraging, but since I just finished reading it, it may be some time before I've enjoyed the benefits discussed.
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