Door of Hope Rescue Mission

06/14/2024

🚫 🏡 We will never arrest our way out of homelessness.

In the case of , the Supreme Court must affirm that criminalizing survival is cruel, costly, and counterproductive. National Homelessness Law Center

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06/14/2024

Safe, decent and affordable shelter plays an absolutely critical role in families creating a new cycle, one filled with possibilities and progress. The outcomes can be long-lasting and life-changing.

05/20/2023

As stories of our country’s failure to adequately address homelessness make national headlines, with incidents like the murder of Jordan Neely on the New York City subway, elected officials are trying to make Americans see things simply, like homelessness as a personal choice, rather than th

05/18/2023

Chicago is one of six sites selected for new initiative FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  CHICAGO – Today, Mayor Brandon Johnson, Deputy Mayor of Education, Youth & Human Services Jennifer Johnson, the …

05/11/2023

“Sin has always taught us to put ourselves at the center of everything — even the gospel.”

The greatest news in the world is that, through Jesus, people made by God, and who have rejected God, may still get to have God.

04/19/2023

There are lots of ideas out there for bringing the numbers down. But so far nothing seems to work better than simply getting a roof over their heads, even if it’s only a dilapidated motel room.

03/30/2023

But God overruled their wrong decisions and intervened with mercy and grace. First, an angel of the Lord met Hagar in her need, assured her of God’s presence, and told her God’s promise: “I will surely multiply your offspring so that they cannot be numbered for multitude.” Likewise, Abraham and Sarah’s blunder couldn’t derail God’s covenant purposes and steadfast love. God promised that Sarah would bear a son, whom they were to call Isaac, and promised Abraham, “I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant” (Genesis 17:19).

In many ways, God treats us similarly. Like a parent with a dismayed child, He comes and picks up the scattered parts of our lives. He comes to us in our brokenness, with the scraps of our self-effort strewn around us and His plans tucked somewhere off to the side, and He replaces the pieces, points us back to His plans, and restores us to the right path.

How many times has God overruled your blundering? How many times has God come to you in your error and rebellion, in your emptiness and brokenness, and brought about, to His glory, events that are unimaginable? Praise God today for His steadfast love and faithfulness. The words of Moses to Joshua still ring true today: “It is the LORD who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you” (Deuteronomy 31:8).

Truth For Life is the Bible-teaching ministry of Alistair Begg

03/17/2023

To confess Jesus Christ as Lord leads to action, a generous heart that extends into practice. Pure religion, James tells us, is to keep oneself unstained by the world and visit the fatherless and widows in their distress (James 1:27). Confession implies conduct. Charles Simeon urged “universal support” for good works that “adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.”

On a similar note, Carl Henry wrote,

“Christian revelation unveils the fact that God and the good are inseparable considerations. . . . The good is God-formulated. Pure religion is ethical; biblical theism requires the love and service of one’s fellow-man as an essential expression of the service of God.”

When we confess the truth about Jesus—claiming he is Messiah and Lord—we are, by implication, submitting our lives to his rule. If the confession is true, allegiance follows.

03/11/2023

Have you seen the Tiny House Movement on Social Media recently? There are actually many people out there who are a bit tired of the current way of life with so much stress, a lot of it relating to

03/10/2023

Research demonstrates that those returning from incarceration are more likely to successfully transition to communities when they have safe, stable and affordable housing. According to a 2019 Metropolitan Planning Council and Illinois Justice Project report, Illinois could save at least $100 million per year by investing in affordable housing programs for returning residents.

Insights from Ahmadou Dramé of the Illinois Justice Project:

The Chicago Housing Commissioner announced City Hall will finance permanent supportive housing for people leaving incarceration.