
"Just a Beggar" Sourdough Crewneck Pullover
This design was inspired by the words of two men: Found written on a slip of paper in Martin Luther’s coat pocket after his death: “Hoc est verum. Wir sind alle Bettler”--“This is true. We are all beggars.” Attributed to about 5 different people (including Sproul) but actually first said by Methodist missionary, D.T. Niles (not Reformed but hey—credit where it’s due), “evangelism is just one beggar telling other beggars where to find bread.” Two truths for us to glean from these words: 1) we are born into spiritual poverty with nothing to offer the Lord Almighty to remedy (or even better) that condition. We can only hold out empty hands and receive the Bread of Life with no payment that could be traded for such a needed provision. “God is not a needy God…There is, most fundamentally, a difference in nature between the Creator and the creature, the former having life in and of Himself, the latter deriving life from the One who is life. We are born into this world totally dependent, fini