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Visions

Posted by SteveKimes
/ May 29, 2016 / Leave a comment

A vision is a seeing of the future, powerful enough to help create that future. Envision what could be with me that we might re-create what is. I see a city that would welcome the homeless as neighbors and equal citizens I see a city that would create space for everyone to...

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Disability

Posted by SteveKimes
/ April 18, 2016 / 1 Comment

You have a work history, but something went terribly wrong. Perhaps it’s nothing physical, but you are no longer able to function. You do all you can to fix it, but you end up on the street anyway. You hear from someone to apply for disability. You apply. You are...

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Three Reasons for Poverty?

Posted by Diane Kimes
/ April 12, 2016 / Leave a comment

This is a guest post by Nigel Branken, who, with his family, ministers to the poor in South Africa. He speaks out against the continuing prejudice against the coloreds in that country, and lives out his convictions by assisting people and helping them through the courts. Nigel offers us...

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Kindness Creates Kindness

Posted by Diane Kimes
/ April 10, 2016 / Leave a comment

I note that there are many, many people who fear the homeless. This is because they don’t recognize that the homeless are their neighbors. Sure, we have some irritating neighbors, even bad ones, but as long as we are polite to our neighbors, they will be polite to us. If...

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Beyond Endurance

Posted by SteveKimes
/ April 7, 2016 / Leave a comment

When I am exhausted and I cannot endure a moment’s more compassion, a moment’s more mercy, a moment’s more sacrifice, somehow, I find a moment more. That must come from God, for I have often come to the end of myself. Only God is found where there is nothing left.

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Tough Love

Posted by SteveKimes
/ April 4, 2016 / Leave a comment

Marcine grew up abused by her father. She left home early, got a job and worked hard. Someone had lied about her and so she lost that job. The stress of her life was too overwhelming, so she sat in her apartment, unable to seek another job. “They won’t hire...

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Balancing

Posted by SteveKimes
/ March 30, 2016 / Leave a comment

Tim was an alcoholic, but through support and a job he stopped drinking. He lost his job and ended up on the street, but he determined that he wouldn’t go back to alcohol as a “solution” to his problems. His friends all drank, and constantly offered him some, but he...

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Embezzlement

Posted by SteveKimes
/ March 27, 2016 / Leave a comment

“Recently, an attorney at Debt Masters, a local collection agency, found out that one of his managers was cheating the business. Of course, the manager was fired, but he was given to the end of the day when he would be given his final check. “The manager considered quickly, recognizing...

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Good Friday

Posted by SteveKimes
/ March 24, 2016 / Leave a comment

Today is the day that the church celebrates the death of Jesus. The death of forgiveness, the death that established a new nation, so that we need no longer live under the oppressions of this world. Why was Jesus sentenced to die? He didn’t die at the hand of Pharisees...

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God’s Leading

Posted by SteveKimes
/ March 23, 2016 / 1 Comment

I have a friend who used to huff methylene when he was on the street and it messed up his mind some. He told me that he used a bit after he met me, but he soon quit. I was glad he had stopped, because it was keeping him from...

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