Episodes
Sunday Aug 30, 2015
Race Relations Part 2 - Seeking Common Ground
Sunday Aug 30, 2015
Sunday Aug 30, 2015
Duck or rabbit?... considering perspective
Proverbs 21:2 (nasb)
Proverbs 18:17 (nasb)
James 1:19
Matthew 7:3-5
Proverbs 17:17
Ephesians 4:15
Wrestling with ‘wedges’… seeing both duck & rabbit
Ephesians 6:1-3
James 1:20
Romans 12:21
II Samuel 11-12
The individual, the heart and the ‘content of character’
II Samuel 16:7
John 4:20-24
Galatians 3:8
"We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society
that can live with its conscience. That will be a day not of the white man, not of the black man.
That will be a day of man as man."
Martin Luther King
Sunday Aug 23, 2015
Racial Wound... The Long Road In
Sunday Aug 23, 2015
Sunday Aug 23, 2015
Race Relations—“A Spiritual Starter Kit”— Part 1
Racial Wound… The Long Road In
“Have a little understanding”
Proverbs 20:5
Matthew 7:3-5
Colossians 3:12
Into the mess… a historical survey
Joshua 4:9, 21-22
Matthew 23:35-36
“There are no accidents… the past is the cause of the present,
and the present will be the cause of the future.”
-- Abraham Lincoln
John 4:4-9ff
Out of the mess… grace & mercy
Romans 3:23-24Sources & further reading…
History of African American challenges:
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, by Richard Wormser
Slavery by Another Name… The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, by Douglas A. Blackmon
The Warmth of Other Suns… The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson
For an exploration of starkly contrasting political
approaches read both:
Color Blind… The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the
Retreat From Racial Equity, by Tim Wise
White Guilt… How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era, by Shelby Steele
For a distinctly Christian relational perspective:
Gracism… The Art of Inclusion, by Pastor David Anderson
Monday Aug 17, 2015
The Journey of Adventure
Monday Aug 17, 2015
Monday Aug 17, 2015
- You Are Valuable.... I John 3:1 / Luke 15:1-7
- You Are Loved.... Romans 5:6-11
- ReFrame Your Adventure.... Matthew 6:22-23
- Failure is Part of the Adventure.... Acts 9:10-19
- The Blessing of the Adventure....
Monday Aug 10, 2015
The Risk of Adventure!
Monday Aug 10, 2015
Monday Aug 10, 2015
Paradox - The Call to Adventure!
Follow - Matthew 16:24-27
3 Keys . . .
- Deny
- Take up
- Follow
2 Big Questions
1 Incredible Promise
Darkness <> Light - John 8:12
Shame ? - Romans 10:9-11
Risk Involves Goals . . .
Jesus' goal - Luke 19:10
Jesus' goal for us Mark 1:17
Goal 1 - Follow Him
Goal 2 - Fish for lost people
Wrong goals - Matthew 6:19-21
Don't accumulate possessions . . . Accumulate experiences
Success <> Failure
Greatest Risk is Taking No Risks At All
Monday Aug 03, 2015
Choose Adventure!
Monday Aug 03, 2015
Monday Aug 03, 2015
> Risk - Reflect - Do