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Pastor's Blog Created on Tuesday, 02 June 2020Read more...
Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.- Isaiah 1:17 ESV In 2013, three radical Black organizers — Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi — created a Black-centered political will and moveme...
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Pastor's Blog Created on Monday, 30 March 2020Read more...
Now when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he jeered at the Jews. And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of Samaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves? Will th...
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Pastor's Blog Created on Tuesday, 24 March 2020Read more...
“Even now,” declares the Lord,“return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.” Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate,slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from se...
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Pastor's Blog Created on Tuesday, 17 March 2020Read more...
But now, this is what the LORD says— he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they...
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Pastor's Blog Created on Saturday, 14 March 2020Read more...
"The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." Phili...
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Pastor's Blog Created on Thursday, 12 March 2020Read more...
This is what the Lord… says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you. - 2 Kings 20:5 This is the response of God to the prayers of King Hezekiah during is terminal illness. The monarch pleads for mercy, healing and remembrance of his faithfulness ...
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Pastor's Blog Created on Wednesday, 26 February 2020Read more...
“Even now,” declares the LORD, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.” Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the LORD your God, for He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and He relents from ...
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Pastor's Blog Created on Tuesday, 25 February 2020Read more...
Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. - 1 Thessalonians 5:18 ESV It is quite easy to simply recite the 1 Thessalonian 5:18 text with little thought to the enormous challenge it presents to people wounded and weary from t...
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Pastor's Blog Created on Monday, 24 February 2020Read more...
You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you. - Isaiah 26:3 We all have those moments when life presents what seems to be more than we can bear. Like falling dominos, one adverse situation after the next befalls us. In physi...
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Pastor's Blog Created on Tuesday, 11 February 2020Read more...
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. - 1 Corinth...
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Pastor's Blog Created on Tuesday, 03 December 2019Read more...
I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord. Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem. - Psalm 122:1-2 There is nothing more exhilarating and life giving than authentic God centered worship! Community Worship that recognizes God as...
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Pastor's Blog Created on Thursday, 03 October 2019Read more...
And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near. - Hebrews 10:25 NLT It is clear from scripture that worship as a faith community is a biblical imperative. God encourag...
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Pastor's Blog Created on Sunday, 29 September 2019Read more...
And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, " The Lord is with you, O mighty man of valor." - Judges 6:12 ESV We are reminded in scripture that at the various intersections of life, we can be assured that God's presence goes with us. Turmoil or Trouble, ...
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Pastor's Blog Created on Tuesday, 10 September 2019Read more...
He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you Except to be just, and to love kindness (compassion), And to walk humbly with your God ? -Micah 6:8 AMP 11 But Naaman went away angry and said, “I thought that he would surely come out to me an...
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Pastor's Blog Created on Wednesday, 24 July 2019Read more...
Whoever wants to be great must become a servant - Mark 10:43 In contrast to a secular mindset and understanding of greatness , the Word of God confronts us with an inconvenient and radical understanding of greatness defined by Jesus Christ. Greatness is measured in ter...
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Pastor's Blog Created on Wednesday, 17 July 2019Read more...
Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism - Acts 10:34 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. -Luke 9:23 Continuing thoughts on Christian...
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Pastor's Blog Created on Tuesday, 16 July 2019Read more...
I'm continuing a few thoughts on Christian Discipleship, among them is the recognition that God has a method or a means of directing us in discipling people. Discipleship is not a program, but a process, it is not an event but a lifestyle. I think those of us who are r...
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Pastor's Blog Created on Monday, 15 July 2019Read more...
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die. Those are the words of German Christian theologian and martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He calls us to consider what kind of discipleship are we promoting and practicing within Christian congregations. Bonhoeffer would call...
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Pastor's Blog Created on Wednesday, 17 April 2019Read more...
Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, “May you never bear fruit again!” Immediately the tree withered. - Matthew 21:19 Nothing But Leaves It was on this day that resistance and rebellion were on displ...
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Pastor's Blog Created on Monday, 15 April 2019Read more...
Holy Monday : A Pathway to God Matthew 21:10-17 After having rode triumphantly into the Old City to the cheers of the multitude, Jesus enters His Father's House only to be met by a marketplace specializing in extortion and economic oppression. He clears the temple and ...
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Pastor's Blog Created on Friday, 15 March 2019Read more...
And taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing over them. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd.And they all ate and were satisfied. And what was left over was picked up, twelve baskets ...
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Pastor's Blog Created on Monday, 11 February 2019Read more...
But he give s more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” - James 4:6 ESV It seems that we often find ourselves exhausted and exasperated as a result of stretching and straining towards accomplishing our goals in life. Added t...
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Pastor's Blog Created on Tuesday, 16 October 2018Read more...
Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. - Philippians 3:15-18 (KJV...
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Pastor's Blog Created on Wednesday, 26 September 2018Read more...
And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed. - Mark 1:35 This prayerful moment in the life of Jesus is placed prominently at an early point in the Gospel narrative set down by John Mar...
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Pastor's Blog Created on Tuesday, 11 September 2018Read more...
God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble. 2 Therefore we will not fear, Even though the earth be removed, And though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea." Psalm 46: 1-2 Today in the United States of America countless individuals rem...
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Pastor's Blog Created on Saturday, 07 April 2018Read more...
One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him, “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?” - John 6:8-9 ESV This particular biblical text is a favorite of mine. It reminds me of God's inexhaustible po...
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Pastor's Blog Created on Friday, 16 March 2018Read more...
The devil led him to Jerusalem and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down from here. For it is written: “‘He will command his angels concerning you to guard you carefully; they will lift you up in th...
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Pastor's Blog Created on Wednesday, 14 March 2018Read more...
And all the people gathered as one man into the square before the Water Gate. And they told Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses that the Lord had commanded Israel. So Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, both men and women and all who ...
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Pastor's Blog Created on Tuesday, 14 November 2017Read more...
“Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, [that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.” Peter said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison ...
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Pastor's Blog Created on Thursday, 31 August 2017Read more...
The invisible, yet tangible barrier that prevents advancement, promotion or progress within the workplace and ultimately within our life can be called "The Glass Ceiling". The barrier that keeps us in the same place on so many levels, both emotionally, physically and s...
