The Twenty-Piece Shuffle: Why the Poor and Rich Need Each Other (Biblia.com)

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In the dark corners of the inner city, the most destitute people in society are searching for anything to numb their hurting souls. And there are some who display the most extreme mix of need and anticipation: the twenty-piece shuffle, a jittery walk marked by wide-eyed desperation, named after the street tag for a piece of crack cocaine. But the addiction to whatever will numb a troubled...

More careful students than I tell me that there are more than 2,000 references in more than four hundred different passages of Scripture that speak of God’s passion for the poor. My own studies reveal to me that, in the Hebrew alone, biblical writers use more than forty different words to describe conditions of poverty. These roughly sort into four primary categories, indicating destitution or dispossession, oppression, affliction (suffering, depression, helplessness), and sickness (diminished strength,

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