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And as we see, we go from Abraham on through to Jesus, passing by some notable names in the family tree. Come join with us! He was concerned in saving our soul so that we might have a place in heaven. Sermons Psalm 23:4 Funeral: $3.75: From Trouble to Triumph: 0896: Sermons Job 14:1-2 Funeral: $3.75: Enduring the Fires of Sorrow: 0895: Sermons John 12:27-28 Funeral $3.75: A Resting Place: 0894: Sermons Revelation 14:13 Funeral sermon $3.75: Thy Rod and Thy Staff: 0893: Sermons Psalm 23:4 So we must deal with the spirit. Migration. Germani is used in rabbinic literature to refer to the inhabitants of the Roman province of Germania, the ancient Cimmerians (related to the Thracians), the biblical Magog and stereotypical white folk. Larry also served as counsel for the Rev. The savage ferocity of slavery has torn your names from the memories of your descendants but not your lives, your survival, your strength. What ever it is that I am and all that I am, I am because you were. Our children must survive and thrive and there is much that imperils them: poverty, substandard education, violence, lack of access to health and dental care, astronomical incarceration rates, a deeply flawed justice system, failure and inability to dream a world beyond the one they know or to which they have been confined, hopelessness. Some turned on their own. Given that, we look that the sons of Noah, and we realize that if he indeed had three sons of three different races or colors, if you will, then this makes the argument that Noah was himself what we would call black today. I dedicate this drash to the memory of Rolihlahla, Nelson, Mandela, Madiba. Radical threatening love requires unpopular truth-telling. Africa looms large in many of our hearts this week as one of her lions has taken his final rest. Now it is our task to continue to make this church home for all of God’s children, preaching the gospel of Isaiah and Jesus: … good news to the oppressed, As I give thanks for you, I weep for you. The future I envision is one in which the United States is further enriched by the presence and contributions of citizens who reflect the breadth of the world’s peoples, and one in which ethnic majority and minority status will be upended and have no power.

The trial adjudicated charges made against pastor Dell for performing a same sex union in his church.

And then there are the untold numbers of women, girls and boys sold into sexual slavery each year. I give thanks for your sacrifice – not that you sacrificed yourselves, but that you were sacrificed – human sacrifice on an epic scale to greed and misanthropic racism. A Sermon Series Based on Negro Spirituals" written by the Rev.

Isaiah describes a situation where instead of being focused on God – in the text it is a fast day – the people were focused on themselves and as a result were unjust in their dealings with others but never missed fast or feast day. The text seems to be written specifically for folk like us, good religious folk who honestly wonder why the world is as bad as it is. This too is good news. Every homeless person is related to somebody. Halleluiah!”, “Black men have the privilege of being among the first leaders and participants in the Pentecostal and Charismatic revival that swept across the church in the early 1900’s.”, “(Historian and author Dr. H. Vinson Synan says that) Charles F. Parham, a white man, and William J. Seymour, a Black man, share roughly equal positions as founders of modern Pentecostalism.”, “A key man in that contagious spread (of Pentecostalism) was a man by the name of Charles Harrison Mason, a Black man and the father of founder of the Church Of God in Christ. We need some ‘hood theology. The other interesting thing is where Jesus said that whatever was bound on earth would be bound in heaven, and whatever was loosed on earth would be loosed in heaven. With love. Equipping Leaders The good news is God’s love made flesh in Jesus the Messiah. Preach liberty, release and freedom and know that it is coming because the Spirit has never failed to deliver. We were made to believe that we as a people had no place in the mainstream church. above my highest joy.

We and the Judeans have the same issues.

A-white-man should not marry a white-woman lest they produce boheq, a-too-white-child, and a-black-man should not marry a-black-woman lest they produce, t’fuach, a-too-black-child.

Remembering that you built this country with your bare hands, your blood and broken bodies forming the mortar that cements it together – on a bloody foundation of other massacred peoples, that you freed yourselves and this nation from the curse of slavery, that you reconstructed this nation after it began cannibalizing itself over the right to exploit your bodies, I now look to the future. He believes that all of God's people have been "fearfully and wonderfully made" and therefore have a unique contribution to share with the world and the church. This Gospel is that God’s love for the woman-born was manifested in God, Godself, becoming woman-born, for the redemption and liberation of all the woman-born from every oppression and from death itself. They would get the only freedom they needed to worry about in the next world. Again, in what would become typical Jesus fashion, he did not start off in some big lofty building, adorned with gold and silver and jewels, with large choirs and tons of people. These few words conjure up powerful apocalyptic images, both visually (“stars begin to fall”) and aurally (“trumpet . Our nation now looks back 150 years to the Emancipation Proclamation.

Larry has represented The United Methodist Church in many capacities. Why do we even need to go over this and rehash these issues?

But not counting that, one has to wonder how 2,000 years ago, as is recorded in the second chapter of Matthew, a couple could hide in Egypt and not be discovered as not being from that land, since all descriptions of people of that time point to Egypt being a land largely made up of people of color. sound,” “sinner moan,” . This is because the gene that creates the so- called black race is a dominant gene and the gene that created the so-called white race is a recessive gene. Generations of folk of all races have asked what the Israelites looked like, for many, in order to identify with literal, cultural or spiritual ancestors. One group in Alabama and Texas received permission to use the name of the church in 1912, and this continued until 1914, when they organized and called their predominantly white organization the Assemblies of God.”, “When Bishop Mason passed in 1961, he left behind him one of the largest Pentecostal bodies in the world.”, “Christianity belongs to all of us!

It’s truly a delight to help develop messages which caters to bringing day-light to your sermons … 3 to provide for those who mourn in Zion, On the willows, Israel hung up their harps, one translation says, “on the poplars.” From American poplar trees our ancestors were hung: Southern trees bear strange fruit Dawn Chesser, Director of Preaching Ministries I know that I cannot know the fullness of the horrors you faced, endured, survived and to which some of you succumbed. And in those Why do we need to point this out? Having money in your pocket, living in a fancy house or driving a fancy car will do nothing for your soul. In the bible, in the first few chapters of Genesis, we find that Noah had three sons. The world needs this Gospel, this good news. There is brutality in our own house, in our own neighborhoods, in own our schools. Judah could say the king used to make all those decisions; now we have a Persian governor. Persons of African descent do not seek to return to our ancestral homeland as a collective any more than do all the world’s Jews seek to immigrate to Israel. The texts are about how to tell when someone has a plague spot on their skin and how skin-color affects the inspection and determination. But let us deal with the scripture, and move forward into the modern age. on foreign ground?

When Jesus was talking to the disciples, he was curious as to who the people he had encountered thought he was. We have been made to believe that Jesus, like everyone else in the Bible were of this so-called white race. Amen. Some were poorer and hungrier than others. For years upon years, the church, the black church in particular has thrived because of a rock. There are descriptions of Solomon in the Bible which suggest that he too was a man of color, Absalom Jones, The history of the world shows us, that the deliverance of the children of Israel from their bondage, is not the only instance, in which it has pleased God to appear in behalf of oppressed and distressed nations, as the deliverer of the innocent, and of those who call upon his name. Blood is on our hands. “God has Blessed us, but I don’t believe God is through with us yet”. As Fr. Now, the reason I bring this up is similar to the reason I brought this up in bible study a couple of weeks ago. The racism, sexism, xenophobia, misanthropy and greed that characterized your times endures and adapts. I find myself saying again: We affirm that black lives matter and are sacred in the face of actions that communicate the opposite. For you see, the real black church is the church in general.

For me, Black History Month is a time of reflection, rejoicing, and . Dr. Pickens is married to Debra, and they have a daughter, Jessica, who is s sophomore at the University of Maryland. 9 February 2014 | Categories: sermon | Tags: black history | Leave A Comment », *Vayigash Mandela. That is also the Gospel. As was last year and the year before that, and the ancient year in which this text was first composed. On days like today I think you would rather slaughter God than accept that she is black like me. Diaspora. Jesus was not a blond haired, blue eyed surfer looking person. It was as though they thought they could do whatever they wanted to anybody all week long then come and say a few prayers, erase the slate and go back to doing the same old things with no intention to change, no attempt to try to do better. Jesus gave us the opportunity to believe in him. But you worship a pale deformed perversion of God that mirrors your biases. The rock was something that could grow. And now our right to vote is under attack again, schools in our neighborhoods are falling apart, understaffed, under-resourced and overcrowded, and folk are shooting our children like dogs in the street and getting away with it.