What’s your prayer life look like then? Radical threatening love requires unpopular truth-telling.
The rock was something that could grow. In the bible, in the first few chapters of Genesis, we find that Noah had three sons. Are brothas and sistas slinging on the corners because they’re desperate and don’t have any other opportunities or because they just don’t care about anybody or anything but the Benjamins? Joseph’s Egyptian sojourn complicates the issue in interesting ways. Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. We need some ‘hood theology. Aren’t you glad that you know Jesus Christ?” – Presiding Bishop Charles E. Blake, “There are many parallels between [African Americans] and the experience of Joseph.
Tags: Black History Month, Black History Month at Seminary of the Southwest, Glenice Robinson-Como, Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, James 2, Sermons, welcome, who is my neighbor If anyone can teach us today how to look to Jesus in the midst of suffering, it is our African American brothers and sisters from Black Church History. Free last!
Come join with us! The same Spirit who taught and guided and accompanied Jesus of Nazareth, empowering him and raising him from the dead – that same Spirit calls us, sends us, anoints us, prepares us, enables us, empowers us. Here is a strange and bitter crop. Even his suffering and death were transformed into good news by his glorious resurrection. It is important to remember that the rabbis are discussing their own kinfolk, black, white, red, spotted and speckled, who are also their skin-folk. Well, that settles that. The terms boheq and t’fuach, “excessive whiteness” and “excessive blackness” are not always negative in the rabbinic lexicon. Let not our expressions of gratitude to God for his late goodness and mercy to our countrymen, be confined to this day, nor to this house: let us carry grateful hearts with us to our places of abode, and to our daily occupations; and let praise and thanksgivings ascend daily to the throne of grace, in our families, and in our closets, for what God has done for our African brethren.
None of this is our fault.
With love.
Bishop Blake was also inspired by the story of Joseph in Genesis, who married an Egyptian woman, and cited parallels between Joseph’s journey and the historic journey of African Americans.
Blood is on our hands. I find myself saying again: We affirm that black lives matter and are sacred in the face of actions that communicate the opposite. And it is these three sons, all of whom were born with a different skin color, which created the different races that we have on the earth now.
Migration.
and the day of vengeance of our God; Noted scientist Charles Darwin during his lifetime came up with a remarkable realization, which has proved to be a genetic and scientific fact. …preach to the captives, liberty, Look!
The good news is God’s love made flesh in Jesus the Messiah. We don’t do that. For countless years, the black church was the place for blacks to go to get their information, their source of comfort, to be informed. Even slavery persists, in factories, and in private homes. However, it is the spiritual Jesus that is the most important.
Africans in America also made a home here in spite of the violence with which our ancestors were first deposited on these shores, surviving and thriving, changing American culture even as we were changed by our ancestors’ violent encounter with it. This entire nation is also our ‘hood, and its brokenness is our brokenness.
Yet I claim you all and I honor you. The reason this is notable is mainly because of the biblical descriptions and controversies regarding Noah and Solomon. We have the right to vote.
But the text doesn’t let us off the hook.
It’s not enough to fast and hope the world changes.
R. Ishmael stated: the children of Israel – may I be an atonement for them! We could say I can’t stop drone attacks under Obama any more than I could keep Bush from invading the wrong country or one with no WMDs. Why do we humble our souls and you do not know?
Michael Jackson famously sang, “It doesn’t matter if you’re black or white.” The space between unacceptable blackness and unacceptable whiteness in Bavli Bechoroth 45b, what Soncino translates as “excessive blackness” and “excessive whiteness” is to borrow a term from the Latina and Latino interpretive lexicon, a mestizo space. Faced with horrific suffering, they learned how to face their suffering face-to-face with Christ. Having money in your pocket, living in a fancy house or driving a fancy car will do nothing for your soul. (Rev.
The temple, the palaces, the government buildings and their homes were all scorched piles of rubble. And yet what neither Jesus nor Absalom Jones did was check the prevailing cultural and political winds before opposing the religious authorities in the name of love in their day. on foreign ground? Some died resisting capture.
I can imagine Jesus stepping down on a particular rock for emphasis as to where and how he was building his church. Here is fruit for the crows to pluck And that is my savior, your savior, our savior. He has served the church as a delegate to General and Jurisdictional Conferences, and he was also a member of the Judicial Council, the highest judicial body of The United Methodist Church. What ever it is that I am and all that I am, I am because you were. But having Jesus as your savior, acknowledging the man that willingly gave his life for you, the man who is prepared to give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven, this is the man that can help you.
How is this freedom? That’s ‘hood theology 101. I also see a future in which power and resources which are currently concentrated in a dwindling segment of society multiply across race and class categories leading to a strengthening of us all. Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Slavery. A Sermon Series Based on Negro Spirituals" written by the Rev. Denomination: Baptist Black History Sermon - Sunday February 20, 2011 Last Sunday, I had the honor of giving a short presentation on Black History for my congregation. I want to thank you for surviving and enduring the unimaginable. 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. So much of the bible and its interpretive literature is about constructing and maintaining identity, which of those constructions are still meaningful and which are being reconstructed in your life and religious practice? But what language should I use instead? Black history is not merely the history of African Americans; it is our history as the American people, and our history impacts the church. Melanie Morel-Ensminger from the First UU Church of New Orleans. As I give thanks for you, I weep for you.
And if you keep going down the family line, in the instances that physical descriptions were given, they all lend to a majority of these people being of color. (sermon audio here). 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.
This is the man who can be there for you when your friends desert you and your family is gone. If you look at the first chapter of Matthew, you will find the genealogy of Jesus.
. Whether you live in a gated community or a garbage dump, we’re all in this together. The world needs this Gospel, this good news. 2 On the willows there we hung up our harps.
There is still systematic oppression of women and girls in our world. God says I’m not interested in those prayers; I’m not interested in that kind of Lent: Your fasting, just as on today will not make your voice heard on high. What was the value of the people and of the resources that were taken from the continent of Africa?”, “After all we went through, we still produced a Benjamin Banneker, maker of the first American clock; Sojourner Truth; George Washington Carver; Charles Drew… Benjamin O Davis; Ralph Bunche; Booker T. Washington; Marion Anderson; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Malcolm X; Colin Powell; Barack Obama!”, “After all we went through, God blessed us to be productive; to rise above our oppression and attain excellence.” – Presiding Bishop Charles E. Blake, “During the dark day of the Crucifixion, the Jews were condemning [Jesus] and calling for His death. Our neighborhoods are broken. So might this be! Bind up the broken pieces of the broken hearts around us and even our own broken hearts.
But you worship a pale deformed perversion of God that mirrors your biases. We don’t say, I don’t have to say this part right here – I haven’t done any of that, but brother, you need to say that line right there twice.
Absalom had for his wife when he bought her freedom from slavery, when he could have used that money for himself – he had no way of knowing if he would ever get his hands on that much money again. They would get the only freedom they needed to worry about in the next world. Welcome to our celebration of Black History 2003. Discipleship Ministries Shabbat Shalom. “We need to reach back to our homeland; reach back to Africa.” – Presiding Bishop Charles E. Blake. Theme: Modularity Lite by Graph Paper Press.
The trip that they made was called ‘The Middle Passage’. SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES: Genesis 37-50, Num10:29, Numbers 12:1-9, Isaiah 40:31, Romans 8:28; Romans 8:31-39, Matthew 6:33. I am pleased to announce "Plenty Good Room! And why is that?
They will be called oaks of righteousness, So then, according to Resh Lakhish, the kohanim (and likely the rest of the Israelites) range in skin-tone from blacker-than-black to whiter-than-white with only the extremes on both ends perceived as problematic.
Some folk have made a career out of blaming folk for the terrible things that befall them.
And when we come across idiots who try to tell us what Jesus wasn't, we can tell them who Jesus was and is.
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The Israelites eventually made a home in Babylon in spite of the violence with which they were transported. But the most important characteristic about Larry is that God has blessed him, and he believes in the revolutionary impact that Jesus can have on our lives. Thank God almighty we’re free at last! It is a time to remember and re-tell the story of how God moved on our behalf throughout history — eradicating slavery and opening doors that had been closed.
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