Filling in the cracks

“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name.  I pray that, according to the riches of his glory, he may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being with power through his Spirit and that Christ may dwell in […]

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The Most Segregated Hour

“It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o’clock on Sunday morning.” ~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King’s words are often employed when there is talk of Christ’s Church and its lack of cultural diversity in worship. It is said as a matter of fact and there is […]

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A Call for Great Christianity

“… there is plenty of Christianity that cannot solve our problem either– little, petty, hide-bound Christianity, an escape from life, utterly irrelevant to the vast issues that confront mankind.” ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick, A Great Time to be Alive: Sermons on Christianity in Wartime, 1944 Fosdick writes these words in his first sermon in this collection of […]

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Confronting Our Obsession with the Flesh

“As for mortals, their days are like grass; they flourish like a flower of the field; for the wind passes over it and it is gone and its place knows it no more.  But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him and his righteousness to children’s […]

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Tired Of Race

I’m not searching for a middle ground, an either/or, both/and solution to race.  I don’t believe in compromise when it comes to the matter for the loss is too great if race remains in our lives.  No one will win; no one ever has.  I find nothing of use in the designations of race or its […]

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