Poor Excuses? (May 17, 2021)

How does the Church deal with poverty? How do we understand what the Bible says about care for the poor and how it says, “If any will not work, neither let him eat”? As I conclude the second volume of Proverbially Speaking, we look at “Poor Excuses” and God’s Answers. Like so much in Scripture, we are called to a balance we struggle to achieve.

• Deuteronomy 15:11
• Proverbs 14:20-24
• Matthew 25:38-40
• John 12:8
• 2 Corinthians 8:7-9
• 2 Thessalonians 3:10-12
• James 2:2-4
• James 2:6