Faith seeking understanding– without race
Yesterday, I shared a message with the congregation titled, “Costly Obedience.” Unpacking the well- known hymn recorded in Philippians 2.5-11, I invited listeners to consider again the price that Christ paid for our sins. It was a costly obedience because he was obedient to the point of death– not obedient for personal gain, not agreeable […]
Read MoreDuring this season of Lent, a kind of forty- day challenge for some believers, I have been reflecting on surrender and what we mean when we say, “I give up.” In the practice of our faith, according to the terms and conditions of our discipleship, giving up is a good thing. Dare I say, it is […]
Read MoreMy family and I recently visited a state that shall remain nameless and after being introduced to a European American woman in her early to mid- forties who would be serving us during our weekend stay, she felt compelled to share with me that there was only one “colored person” in her school “all the […]
Read More“I die daily.” ~ First Corinthians 15.31 Funerals. No one likes them, right? Well, except for morticians perhaps! And death, like politics and religion, is a subject to be avoided unless absolutely necessary. Whether it is because of the resultant grief, the mystery that shrouds it or fear of our own demise, death is not […]
Read More“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” ~ Jeremiah 1.5, NRSV How does God know us? This opening statement of God’s calling of the Old Testament weeping prophet Jeremiah says that God knows us a part […]
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The Raceless Gospel 