HealthBridge Global Blog

MERCK – Partnership 4 Giving

With much gratitude to one of our donors who has pledged a 5-year commitment to LIFE Medical Center, HealthBridge Global has been accepted into MERCK’s Partnership For Giving Program.  The program is simple…a past or present MERCK employee makes a donation to HealthBridge Global, and MERCK matches it.  The employee logs the donation on MERCK’s [...]

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What I Am Reading Now

Yesterday I started a new book: Roots and Remedies of the Dependency Syndrome in World Mission by Robert Reese.  My reading pace is not what it used to be so this one will take me more than a few days to plow through, but it looks very promising so far.  Reese has spent most of [...]

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Do Laws Equal Freedom?

I read the ancient words of King David this morning, in the 41-48 verses of Psalm 119.  He states that true freedom comes from knowing and seeking the laws, statues and precepts of God.  David was not speaking of physical or political freedom.  David was a hunted man, running scared and rarely free from trouble. [...]

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The Tragedy of American Compassion

The Tragedy of American Compassion, by Marvin Olasky, is very likely one of the most spot-on, insightful, helpful, and yet provocative books I’ve read in a very long time. Olasky traces the history of the response to poverty in U.S. society from the 1600’s through the 1990’s.  Yes you read that right; from the 1600′s [...]

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Can Revenge Equal Justice?

When writing this, I was not conscious of the fact that it was September 11th, and the 10th anniversary of the horrific events.  In light of the thinking I’ve been doing about justice (and the fact that I read Psalm 137 this morning) I had more thoughts come to mind.  Thoughts that seemed very appropriate given the [...]

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What is the Source of Justice?

Continuing on the theme of justice, I find myself asking, “what is the source of justice”, specifically for the poor?  Where does it come from?  How do they get it?  How do we (if we deem ourselves in a position to help) give it to them?  If we’ve come to the conclusion that justice is [...]

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