Search results for: "poverty" (49)

Executive Health Care Makes its Biggest Impact on Poor Workers (Video)

Video

Businesses become heroes by offering executive services to the poorest workers.

Course Module in OT - Economics and Contemporary Workplace Issues in Ruth

Seminary Curriculum

Integrate workplace issues into the study of the Old Testament by diving into the book of Ruth.

Address Modern Workplace Issues in a Seminary Class on Old Testament

Seminary Curriculum

This seminary assignment shows how to integrate workplace issues into the study of the Old Testament, specifically from...

Teaching the Old Testament: Ruth and Faithful Care

Article

This guide to teaching the Old Testament: Ruth and Faithful Care was prepared by Alistair Mackenzie, teaching...

Perseverance, Wisdom, and Spiritual Growth (James 1:1–3)

Bible Commentary

James begins by emphasizing the deep connection between daily life and spiritual growth. Specifically, God uses the...

Elisha’s Restoration of a Household’s Financial Solvency (2 Kings 4:1-7)

Bible Commentary

Bonnie Wurzbacher on the Role of Business (Click to Watch) (Click to Watch) After one of...

Making Lending Decisions

Article

How does our finance theology inform whether to make a loan to a particular customer and at what interest rate? Several...

Unaffordability of Borrowing by the Poor

Article

Ideally, market-rate finance is a blessing to both borrowers and lenders. This is similar to all kinds of commerce....

Instruments

Article

Financial instruments are promises between two or more parties with differing resource needs which are tailored to allow...

Can We Really Love Someone Through Intermediaries?

Article

If finance is a means of care and love, doing finance through intermediaries raises a question. Can we love someone we...

Intermediaries

Article

Intermediaries are institutions that “remanufacture” lenders’ resources into a form that is useful to borrowers. A...

Joseph Relieves the Poverty of Egypt’s People (Genesis 47:13-26)

Bible Commentary

After the people ran out of money, Joseph allowed them to barter their livestock for food. This plan lasted for one year...