A Stone of Hope – MLK Day
Guaranteed time well spent. Follow the link for video and text of one of the greatest speeches ever given. MLK \"I Have a Dream\" speech Several of my favorite lines include:
"With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope."
and
"Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline."
Great words for all who struggle for freedom in truth against great odds. Racism is still too prevalent, but the Dragon's devouring of pre-born children is the greatest evil of our country and our world. Over 42 million children are destroyed in the womb each year worldwide. That is more than one abortion per second.
Christ-followers should not be surprised by a world deluded into mass evil. The things Christ holds most dear will come under the greatest attack of Satan (the dragon of Revelation 12) and we as His people must stand against odds that seem hopeless.
How do we stand? We pray, we vote, we persuade, but most of all we live a life as the embodied presence of the Kingdom of God. Whoa! That is a big chunk of god-speak. What does that mean? It means understanding people the way Christ does. When we do this we then build households that are communities of Christ centered character and virtue. In turn we raise up churches that are communities of character that are a redeeming presence in a given community.
May I be so bold as to give you a link to a sermon I gave on the subject. Sorry I am not quite Martin Luther King Jr. but I do the best with what I have to work with. Go to this link A Story of Life and Death and click on the link near the bottom of the page titled "2009 BHBC online sermons". Yes, I know it is 2010. We will update that title just before 2011. The sermon is entitled "A Story of Life and Death" given on January 17, 2010.
Press on until we are all free at last.
January 21st, 2010 - 06:53
How do we deal with the apathy in the market place among Christians? What do we say to the pastor who says “my job is to win souls, you do your thing and I’ll do mine”? Maybe this is reasonable, maybe winning souls will eventually lead to more people seeing the evil of abortion. Or will it? If that particular pastor says nothing from the pulpit, will the apathy continue because it is so much a part of our culture and the horror of it is softened by too much media exposure and the fact we do not experience the emotion of it as it happens. Is it perhaps because if we let our imaginations grasp the horror of it as a reality that our minds shut down and we refuse to let it linger? Or are we too desensitized for even that?
Or is it true that the average Christian is in their own little holding pattern of living and any such disruption is unwelcomed in that ordered world?
How do we break through to the self-satisfied Christian of America and persuade them of their responsibility to reach out beyond their comfort zones, and understand God will not tolerate the mass killing of His innocent Babes.
Forty years of Roe v Wade is approaching, if the Church does not awaken before that anniversary, will God pour out His wrath even in this age of Grace?