Posts by Jason McMartin

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• The Good Book Blog

  Healthy Relational Inter-Dependence

  Poverty and the Church, Part Four

  Jason McMartin — June 19, 2019

  This post is the conclusion of a four-part series on poverty and the church. Read the initial post here. I Thess. 4:11-12 “work with your hands ....

• The Good Book Blog

  The Mission of the Church and the Alleviation of Material Poverty

  Poverty and the Church, Part Three

  Jason McMartin — June 17, 2019

  This post is part three in a four-part series. Read the introduction post here. In my previous post, I placed material poverty within a broader...

• The Good Book Blog

  Poverty as Loss of Relationship

  Poverty and the Church, Part Two

  Jason McMartin — June 12, 2019

  This post is part two in a four-part series. Read part one here. If the church is going to be effective in addressing poverty, she must first...

• The Good Book Blog

  Why is it sometimes good to eat a hungry person’s food?

  Poverty and the Church, Part One

  Jason McMartin — June 10, 2019

  One spring break during college, I went on a missions trip to the section of downtown Los Angeles known as skid row. It continues to be a place...

• The Good Book Blog

  How to teach your new pet rock everything it needs to know (or, the problem of knowledge for naturalism)

  Jason McMartin — December 23, 2012

  Among the must-have toys of Christmas 1975 was the pet rock. Advertising executive Gary Dahl conceived the idea while listening to others complain about the hassles of animate pets, and then his marketing instincts kicked in. He gathered ordinary stones,