Posts by Scott Carlson

We've all been there. We're going about our merry way and upon our scene emerges a homeless person, a hungry person, a disheveled, obviously poor, with a ton of problems person. ? How do you react? If you're like most Americans, you immediately feel compassion. You want to fix the problem. Americans are fix-it people. We see a problem and we have to fix it. Look at our h...

Have you ever counted the number of meanings that belong to a word? Take the word walkfor instance. Sometimes, when a person uses the word walk he means putting one foot in front of the other, but other times the walk has absolutely nothing to do with walking. Sometimes walking means floating, if you are spacewalking. Sometimes walking means you failed to pitch a ball i...

Helping the poor is a noble and biblical ambition, but do we really know what the Bible means when it advocates helping those less fortunate than ourselves?...