Investment Priorities

The same week the global economy shrank by $7 trillion, Zimbabwe’s inflation rate hit a record 231 million percent. In other words, if you had saved $1 million Zimbabwean dollars by Monday, on Tuesday it was worth $158. This sobering fact leads me to pray and ask God’s help in taking my eyes off my own problems.

In order to look with compassion on the truly desperate. What a testimony it would be if, in the coming year, Christians resolved to increase their giving to build houses for the poor, combat AIDS in Africa, and announce kingdom values to a decadent, celebrity driven culture.…