Recently, I pulled The Message off of the bookshelf and added it to my Bible reading. I'm also listening to it on my iPod. Here's Eugene Peterson's take on James 1:26-27:
"Anyone who sets himself up as "religious" by talking a good game is self-deceived. This kind of religion is hot air and only hot air. Real religion, the kind that passes muster before God the Father, is this: Reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plight, and guard against corruption from the godless world."
There are a whole lot of ways to reach out the homeless. A couple of things my wife and I have done:
"Anyone who sets himself up as "religious" by talking a good game is self-deceived. This kind of religion is hot air and only hot air. Real religion, the kind that passes muster before God the Father, is this: Reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plight, and guard against corruption from the godless world."
There are a whole lot of ways to reach out the homeless. A couple of things my wife and I have done:
- Walked Hermann Park, praying for or with homeless men we met... giving them bottled water and granola bars
- Volunteered by preparing and serving meals at Star of Hope's Women & Family Emergency Shelter.
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