How do we understand "preaching the word of God"?

A preacher posted the following on Facebook the other day:

While I am excited that our church is growing, I am heartbroken to hear what people are experiencing in other places. I had a lady tell me yesterday that she visited 4 churches before coming to our church and none of them where preaching the word of God. Please be kind with your comments, but is this what others are experiencing across the nation? When did the call to preach and teach begin to speak about everything but the word? Church this should sound an alarm in our hearts and we need to pray that God will bring our people back to his word.

Most of the responses were of the order of the following:

* (T)hat new word is often an old trick.

* Absolutely. Preach the word and don't sugar or water it down!!!! Keep preaching my brother in Christ.

* When was it this happened was your question. Judas started desiring the money, and the love of money is the root of all evil. Jesus is and was the Word. Either love all of Him, or the devil will come up with the silver for you to sell out Jesus.

* Everything that is not Christ is antichrist. Whatsoever is not of faith is of sin. Many like Jesus but few really love Him. Love your enemies. Take up your cross. Deny yourself. All of these and many many more are words Jesus taught. Today's lying messages are your best life now, and the carnal man loves that, but it is one of hundreds of doctrines of demons swallowed whole.

* Like chugging a camel, there is nothing there that survives Bible searching.

I think that you can see from these sample responses that there are people out there who have strong feelings about how the word of God is preached and what that means. I believe that everyone who responded is sincere. There are some subtle or emerging disagreements and contradictions expressed in the responses that I believe are healthy.

I wrote a lengthy response---more of a plea, actually---and it was quickly taken down.  I believe that my comments were taken down because I challenged the premise of the pastor's questions. I did not save my response, and I don't want to engage in polemics, but my points came down to the following:

* Let's tread gently here. It may be that some of us are hearing something that we're not prepared for now in a particular church, but we may need that message later in life. It may be that we're filtering what we're hearing only through our experiences and how we analyze those expriences rather than through what the Holy Spirit is calling us to and hoew the Holy Spirit wants us to analyze our conditions. It may be that we're either being mislead by the so-called "prosperity gospel" or that the relative privileges we enjoy here in the U.S. condition us and bend us more towards Ceasar than Christ and that we're confusing the two. It may be that we have a trauma- or abuse-driven mechanism in our heads that pushes us to binary views of the world and of how we encounter Scripture.

* The real issue here may also be our hard-heartedness. Preaching the word of God may take many forms, and not everyone will grasp or feel good about how that happens in environments that they're not comfortable with. For instance, I have attended a church where the majoirity of the congregation were houseless, on various medications, self-medicating, and struggling with surviving on the streets and the mental and emotional challenges that come with that. That is a very different exprience than where Christians are better off and more comfortable. The word of God is necessarily communicated and shared and experienced differently across places, times, and social groups.

* The church has experienced the word of God differently since our earliest days. It isn't news that some Christians object to how the word of God is preached and lived in other churches. If you find yourself in a church where you don't think the preaching and the living out is consistent with how you understand the word of God, take some gentle time to discern where it is that you may belong and search and pray to land in that place. But please be open to the possibility that you may want to return to the place that you're now uncomfortable in some day and that the Holy Spirit may work in that place and lead it and give that place grace and blessings that you are not receiving. 

* Matthew 10:14-15 does show that Jesus gave clear instructions to His disciples about how to respond to those who who reject the preaching of the word in the Spirit, but that was a commandment given to the disciples that came with other commandments regarding "the lost sheep of Israel," the radical message that "The kingdom of heaven is at hand," and curing the sick, raising the dead, cleansing lepers, and driving out demons without cost. We should set ourselves the tasks of healing the sick and raising the dead through social action, a necessary form of preaching the word of God. But so many Christians in the United States do something else. We judge ourselves and others when we're told not to judge. Please try to leave judging to God and be about the work of taking care of the hungry, the thirsty, the poor, the naked, and the imprisoned. We are quite busy shaking the dust from our feet because of what we think happened at another church---and folks at that church are doing the same after encountering us. And, meanwhile, creation is suffering and crying out in agony.

* Who do I know who preaches the word of God? I know a fellow in Southern West Virginia who is not a preacher in a conventional sense but who is gentle and soulful and cautions folks not to judge, and you can feel the Spirit moving in him. His life is a good sermon. I know a preacher in Southeast Kentucky who is part of the Primitive Baptist Universalist community who preaches a Biblically-based universalism and Preterism that most Christians around there can't yet accept, but they can't explain why and he has gotten run off from some churches. You might come into my church on a Sunday and not hear what you think is the word of God being preached, but my pastor's sermons have moved the mountains of my conscience. There is often "something in the air" in my church that assures us and heals us. When our pastor absolves us of our sins as a pastor I can feel that healing taking place. These are among the continuing miracles to be found in the churtch to this day. Bishop William Barber II and Repairers of the Breach  preach the word of God and live the word of God. Why is their message sidelined or ignored by the church? You will need much more than proof texts to challenge these preachers if you don't believe that they're preaching the word of God.

* The idea that some pastors or churches are not preaching the word of God comes as part of a construct that seems to be saying that the word of God must come to us as harsh condemnation. From my universalist perspective, Scripture seems to say instead that the word of God is sweet ("sugarcoating"?) even when it calls us to repentence and correction. That construct also seems to be saying that it's a one-size-fits-all message, but God gave us diversity and gifts of the Spirit, and Scripture opens the door to many possibilities---and God is still speaking and creation still holds us despite our sins and errors. The preachers who I most often hear working within this conservative construct often pose as radicals. "I may get arrested or get in trouble for preaching this, but..." is often used. But, in fact, their message is not a dangerous one or out of step with the society we live in at all. The victimization being preached suits the Trump folks perfectly. It seems to me that "bring(ing) our people back to his word" (see above) at the present moment is very much about building new relationships with one another and doing this in ways that both weaken the conservative paradigm and builds God's kingdom from the kinds of people our Lord loved most deeply.  

* At this very moment the scandal that we are trapped in is not about a moderrn church not hearing the true word of God being preached, I think. It's about how deeply the legacies of relative privilege and power, racism, sexism, militarism, and trauma have conditioned us. It's about our excesses while the world is suffering, and it's about our lack of sobriety and healthy relationships. It's about the church being silent as Israel carries out genocidal policies and about how complicit we are in that. It's about living in a world that can still be saved if we make God real in our prayers and in our lives and in our daily work, and it's about how so many of us opt for forms of death (addiction, oppression, injustice, violence) when God offers life.

        

 

Two Brief Advent Sermons

The following two short sermons were delivered in 2011 by a Roman Catholic priest who probably wishes to remain anonymous. I believe that they contain much wisdom and are worth holding on to.

As we go through the season of Advent different personalities make their appearance. The first ones are the prophets who tell us to prepare the way of the Lord.

The prophet Isaiah tells of a ‘voice crying in the wilderness’ to prepare our hearts for the coming of the Messiah. The prophet Micah tells us the Messiah is to be born in Bethlehem. Zephaniah speaks of the Day of the Lord, and tells us, ‘do not be discouraged.’

For the first time today Mary, the Blessed Mother, makes her appearance. For eleven months of the year we are told to follow Christ. For one month out of the year we are told to follow Mary. For the one month of Advent we are told to follow Mary. Mary will lead us to Bethlehem. Mary, different from the prophets who told us to prepare, Mary tells us how to prepare. Mary pondered these things. Mary treasured these things, and pondered them in her heart.

We are not told to pray harder. We are not told to spend more time in church. WE are told to look into our hearts, to look into our hearts and be full of hope and promise, to prepare for love beyond all telling.

Mary was expecting. Mary was expecting a child. But a lot happened to her and Joseph that was not expected.

Full of hope and promise, full of grace. We say that, ‘Mary, full of grace.” We can be thankful Mary was full of grace and not full of reason. The innkeeper was full of reason. When we are full of reason there is no room in the inn.

The innkeeper had some good reasons why there was not room in the inn. This is not the right time. You should wait until things improve in the economy before you try to have a child. You should wait until the world becomes a better place. Wait until the time is right. Wait until we are all ready. Things are just too unpredictable.

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Third Advent 2011

John the Baptist in the Gospel today has lot of explaining to say who he is not. Priests and Levites were sent to ask him, ‘Who are you?’ I am not the Christ. Who are you then. Are you Elijah? ‘I am not.’ Are you the Prophet? ‘No’ Are you Elvis?

John the Baptist was a prophet in the tradition of the Old Testament prophets. All the prophets in the Old Testament had something in common. All the prophets had to have a sense of the woundedness of Israel. They all had to have a sense of the brokenness of Israel. All the prophets had to feel this in an intense way.

There were a lot more prophets in the Old Testament than are recorded in the Scriptures. Their words never got into the the Scriptures, or if they are in the Scriptures their words are included in other books, anonymously.

The prophets of the Old Testament who lived in times of crisis, their writings have survived. The reason their writings have survived is that our faith has its origin in times of crisis. The hopes and dreams, the promises, the holy darkness has to come from the darkness of evil, not somewhere else. So there has to be a transformation of the evil darkness, to become the holy darkness.

So it is that our faith has its origin in Advent. The faith of Israel had its origin in times of crisis. Advent is the time of this transformation of darkness. Advent is a time of the holy darkness. The struggle is not so much between darkness and light. The struggle is between darkness and darkness, one kind of darkness and another kind of darkness. And it is that one kind of darkness has to be transformed into another kind of darkness. And that is to say we cannot get to the holy darkness without being in the human condition. We cannot try to be holy without being in the human condition. This darkness is the silent sister of Advent.

John the Baptist had a curious message. People were attracted to John the Baptist. His message was direct and blunt. He was not into Diet Coke, or God Lite. John himself was this curious mixture of light and darkness. John had a message of hope. This attracted those to John, his message of hope.

John was living in days unfulfilled. John was not going to live to see the desert bloom. At first he thought the Messiah would come to separate the sheep from the goats, but then that was not the vision he was to have. From the time of his birth John had this burden, this burden of the woundedness of Israel. There was a mystery beyond understanding. And to say to those who came out to see him, ‘You should just cheer up. You need to cheer up.’ That is not what they needed to hear; that is not what John said.

‘There is one who comes after me, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to untie.”

In our Christian faith there is something we prepare for when we prepare for Christmas that is generally not part of the preparation for Christmas in the secular world. It is the coming of Christ at death. Generally this is not part of the Christmas decorations, the preparations we would see in the stores, the coming of Christ at death.

No one is quite sure why, but at Christmas time we think of those who have died. Maybe it is that Christmas is a family time, and these who have died are still part of our family and loved ones. Maybe it is that Christmas is a time of warmth and beauty, and there is a warmth and beauty in our relationships, and in life after death, our relationships will be more personal. There is something in our instincts that lead us to think of the dead at Christmas. It is another way we experience the coming of Christ.

So as we say in the new translation of the Mass, ‘It is right and just’ that we do this, to think of the dead at Christmas. It is another way we prepare for the coming of Christ.

On this Gaudete Sunday we hear the words of St. Paul to the Philippians, “Rejoice in the Lard always; again I say rejoice. Indeed, the Lord is near.’ (Phil 4:4).

A remarkable Advent sermon from 2011

The following sermon was given 11 years go by a Roman Catholic priest who would probably prefer to remain anonymous. I found most of his sermons to be moving and engaging and reassuring, and almost mystical.

Second Sunday of Advent 2011

This year for the season of Advent our assignment, our homework, is to get used to the new translation of the Mass prayers. Your parts, the parts the people say, is rather minimal. The parts the priest says from the altar have more changes. For while we will be using Eucharistic Prayer number three.

Eventually we will use all four of the Eucharistic Prayers, but for now just number three.

We will notice as we get used to the new translation that there is an emphasis on the holy. God is holy. God is the Holy One. What does that mean that God is the Holy One. Many of us would associate the word holy with religious, or godly. Most of us do not like the word godly, or even the word religious. And it des not mean we are going to be using more incense.

The holy, in fact, has nothing to do with being godly, or religious, or incense. To say God is holy means there is a heaviness to where God walks. There is a heaviness to the presence of God. To say something is holy means it is genuine and authentic. We like to think things are genuine and authentic.

So many things come from the holiness of God. It is from the holiness God that we can have the forgiveness of sins. Pagan gods could never forgive sins because they are not holy. Sinners are included in the communion of saints, the communion of saints and sinners, because God is holy. So in the new translation of the Mass prayers we will notice an emphasis on the holy. God is holy.

Today is the second Sunday of Advent. If we are waiting for part two, there is no part two. Nor is there a part three, or a part four. Christmas when it gets here, the Church celebrates Christmas rather quietly. It is not a boisterous, big party. We enter the church by the side aisle, and stop by the crib.

Advent too is rather quiet. Advent is a reflective time. The darkness of this time of year. The Church does not give us a lot of business to do. To keep watch, to keep vigil, to wait patiently. It is this time of year we make peace with the past year, calm down our emotions, put things in perspective. At least when we come into the church during the season of Advent it looks like Advent.

What is true in our lives is that God does not always come in the front door with a lot of fanfare. Maybe God could come in through the back door, or God could come in through the side door into our lives. God could come in through the cracks. If we have any cracks in our walls, God could come in through the cracks. If there are any cracks in our lives God could come in through those cracks.

So Advent is a reflective time. We can think about these things, whatever the Lord gives us to think about, put them in perspective, make peace with the events, the people, the relationships in our lives, the things in our lives, our death.

Advent is a kind of catechism for us. Advent is a season of hope. When we have the virtue of hope we live differently. When we are in touch with hope we are able to see things of the heart. John the Baptist who makes his appearance today was crying out a message of hope. John the Baptist did not say ‘I hope things get better.’

Even with the virtue of hope things may get worse, or get more intense. But the God we have is a God of hope. John the Baptist has the message that God is the origin of hope, God is the origin of the hopes and dreams of a people. The God we have is a God of Advent.

The Christmas season began some time ago, at least in the stores. The Christmas season begins some time after Halloween. So the season of Advent is something of an insertion into the Christmas season. So we have to as Christians balance these things. We have to balance the sometimes business of the Christmas season with the reflective and quiet time of the season of Advent.

And we can do both. We are used to that. We can have Advent within the busyness of this time. John the Baptist today is not asking us to believe in the holidays. John the Baptist is not asking us to get into the holiday spirit. The surprise is that God could surprise us. God can come in through the side door. God can come in through the cracks. We need to see that we are involved in a profound mystery. We need to be aware of the wonder. We need to expect that God can come into the circumstances of our lives, into our own human experiences.

A profound sermon from Fr. Dennis Parker At St. Paul's Episcopal Church on September 4, 2022

IT’S ALL GOOD – IT’S ALL INTERIM TIME

Let us pray: Holy one of many names, we look for stability and surety in our lives and you respond with upside-down gospel messages of costly discipleship and fractured family relationships. We search for calm and peace in our lives, and you respond with gospel messages of division and commands that we must hate that which we have held most closely in order to be your disciples. We come into your temples seeking to worship and honor your names – and you command us to leave our places of comfort and carry our crosses and follow you. Help us to find in your difficult messages, the kernel of truth and relevance to our lives and our dreams. May we who gather in your name – be always aware of the costs incurred in your call to love one another as you have loved us. Amen

(SUNG) COME GATHER ‘ROUND PEOPLE WHEREVER YOU ROAM
AND ADMIT THAT THE WATERS AROUND YOU HAVE GROWN
AND ACCEPT IT THAT SOON YOU’LL BE DRENCHED TO THE BONE
IF YOUR TIME TO YOU IS WORTH SAVIN’ – AND YOU BETTER START
SWIMMIN’ OR YOU’LL SINK LIKE A STONE, FOR THE TIMES THEY
ARE A-CHANGIN’

The Gospel or ‘good news’ of God in the Christ, Jesus of Nazareth in its retelling by the Author of Luke/Acts account over the past few weeks has not exactly been filled with sweetness and light! This is not the Jesus of the author of John’s account who commands us to ‘love one another as I have loved you’ – rather this is the Jesus who tells us “Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple” – not exactly Dale Carnegie’s suggestions on “How to Win Friends and Influence People”! And yet here we are, listening to the difficult words of an itinerant Jewish preacher/teacher of two thousand years ago calling us to costly discipleship. I think this Yeshuah bin Yousef – Jesus Son of Joseph – savior and redeemer of us all is warning us in a similar way as did Bette Davis’ character in the film All About Eve – to “fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night”!

The fifth and final book of the Hebrew Torah is titled in English Deuteronomy – a title that has its origins in the Greek title from the Septuagint duteronomion meaning “second law” or “repeated law”. The book is laid out as three sermons or speeches delivered to the Israelites by Moses on the plains of Moab, just before their entry into the promised land. The first and second sermons address the 40 years of wandering in the wilderness that led to this moment of entry into the that land flowing with milk and honey and the reminding of God’s people to follow the laws and teachings that Moses has given them from the hand of Yahweh – and the third sermon telling them that even should their nation prove unfaithful and lose that land – with return and repentance all can be restored into right relationship between God and God’s chosen people. Our reading this morning from the 30 th chapter of that text is taken from this latter sermon message. The sermonic text states in verses 19 and 20 “I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying and holding fast to God for that means life to you and length of days, so that you may live in the land that the Lord swore to give to your ancestors to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob” (and I might just add to Sarah, and to Rebecca, and to Rachel and Leah). The Lord God says to the people of God – you’re going somewhere – and it will be good and remember these things before you get there – and you ain’t there yet. This, my friends is a message for the Interim time – the almost but not yet!

(SUNG) COME MOTHERS AND FATHERS THROUGHOUT THE LAND
AND DON’T CRITICIZE WHAT YOU CAN’T UNDERSTAND
YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS ARE BEYOND YOUR COMMAND
YOUR OLD ROAD IS RAPIDLY AGIN’ – PLEASE GET OUT OF THE NEW
ONE IF YOU CAN’T LEND YOUR HAND, FOR THE TIMES THEY ARE
A-CHANGIN.

Our reading from the Christian testament today is a short and poignant letter that the apostle Paul has written to his friend and colleague Philemon on behalf of a runaway slave from Philemon’s house, Onesimus – who after escaping from his master’s house, travels to the big city (Rome) and discovers Paul and the messages of the ministry of Jesus of Nazareth that Paul has been converted to. Onesimus has been serving Paul in his imprisonment, and the Apostle is beseeching his old friend Philemon to accept his former servant back, not as a slave, but rather as a brother in Christ, and return Onesimus to Paul so that he will be useful for the service of the Gospel and the wider movement outside of Colossae where Philemon’s house church was located. Paul, in his ever-diplomatic approach to the issues of his time and society – does not write a searing condemnation of the evils of the institution of slavery – but rather a measured and logical argument that in the love of Jesus the Christ – we have all been set free from the slavery of this world to live in the total freedom and dignity of our lives in God’s Kindom Come Among Us in the Right Here and Right Now.

It (will be) is my distinct joy to welcome to our community this morning The Rev. Christopher Craun, Diocese of Oregon Missioner for Thriving Congregations. The Reverend Mother is a colleague and personal friend, as well as the Diocesan staff person responsible for assisting parish congregations who find themselves in periods of transition. In a Q & A session after the service this morning, she will map out the process for the interim period of the next few months and then the longer interim period to follow as you explore your lives in community and the patterns and challenges living in this community present in your short- and long-term history. One of the lessons I have paid close attention to in my twenty (20) years of ordained ministry in Christ’s One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church is that it’s all interim time – we are born, we live and we die and all of the time in between is interim time. We discern our call, we live out our call and our call comes to its completion – all the time in between is
interim time.

(SUNG) THE LINE IT IS DRAWN, THE CURSE IT IS CAST
THE SLOW ONE NOW WILL LATER BE FAST
AS THE PRESENT NOW WILL LATER BE PAST
THE ORDER IS RAPIDLY FADIN’
AND THE FIRST ONE NOW WILL LATER BE LAST
FOR THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’

Just prior to his sudden and untimely death, author, and mystic/priest/poet John O’Donohue was working on a book that has been subsequently published entitled, To Bless the Space Between Us. I have used that book many times in the past few years, as a source of insight and prayer, as a reference for meditations and retreat reflections and it is filled with insight and understanding of the many ways in which our relationships with God and with each other can be a source of healing and a balm of gentle grace when words can often escape expression of our deepest longings. My friend and clergy colleague whom I lovingly refer to as Holy Mother Church; was the rector of St. Stephen’s in Newport and the Vicar of St. Luke’s by the Sea in Waldport. Susan was the first person who introduced this book to me and she shared with me several poems and blessings from it – as well as many other pieces of poetry that speak to the varied and multiple spiritual experiences of our lives. I would like to share with you one of those “blessings” in the form of a poem from O’Donohue’s book entitled: For the Interim Time

When near the end of day, life has drained out of light, and it is too soon for the
mind of night to have darkened things,
No place looks like itself, loss of outline makes everything look strangely in-
between, unsure of what has been, or what might come.
In this wan light, even trees seem groundless. In a while it will be night, but
nothing here seems to believe the relief of dark.
You are in this time of the interim, where everything seems withheld.
The path you took to get here is washed out; the way forward is still concealed
from you.
“The old is not old enough to have died away; the new is still too young to be
born.”
You cannot lay claim to anything; in this place of dusk, your eyes are blurred;
and there is no mirror.
Everyone else has lost sight of your heart and you can see nowhere to put your
trust; you know you have to make your own way though.
As far as you can hold your confidence. Do not allow your confusion to squander
this call which is loosening your roots in false ground, that you might come free
from all you have outgrown.
What is being transfigured here is your mind, and it is difficult and slow to
become new. The more faithfully you can endure here, the more refined your
heart will become for your arrival in the new dawn.

"Rest" - Rev. Beth Dana

I think that many working-class people may miss the point here, but please give a listen to the very end. This sermon helped e put some issues in perspective. 

07.10.22: "Life Isn't Fair" - Rev. Dr. Daniel Kanter

 

Bishop Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II preaching, "Just When You Need Him Most..."

This is Bishop Barber's first sermon since the historic Poor People's Campaign reached Washington last week. Both the message today and the mass presence in D.C. last week are significant events in our history. Just click on this link and it will take you there.  

Does anyone want to go to church and have their solidarity and service with others affirmed?

This post is for people who want to listen in and feel that they have been to church and had their solidarity and service with others fully affirmed. We post videos from Bishop Barber and the Poor People's Campaign often, we rejoice in the warmth from All Souls Unitarian Church, we are affirmed by Pastor Gadson (and we have many posts up from him), the hymns and music here touches us, and the talk by Claude AnShin Thomas models sobriety and service for us. We don't expect anyone listen to all of these. Please take your pick and please listen in to what feels right to you.

From Greenleaf Christian Church, with Bishop William Barber and so many other great people witnessing to righteousness and justice. Just click on the screen and you will see the clip---no need to leave us.

 

From All Souls Unitarian Church---A great sermon!

Pastor Anthony F. Gadson preaching

A wonderful bluegrass gospel hymn from Ralph Stanley 

"Peace in Every Step" - Claude AnShin Thomas at the First Unitarian Church of Dallas

I'll Fly Away - Ransomed Bluegrass

You Fight On - (Church on fire with the Holy Ghost) - Plymouth Rock Church Choir

Greenleaf Christian Church & Bishop William Barber---A Sermon "If we believe in the resurrected Jesus standing with the least of these is AUTOMATIC!"

 

Bishop McKissick: "Do not count me out!"

There are some recording problems around 21:20. That's okay. Reactions to this sermon will vary. I'm posting it here because of its energy and those parts of the message that affirm people and reassure them. Stick with it and hear what Bishop McKissick has to say. In my language there is much here about solidarity and much commonsense. The notion of an active God Who is present in human affairs and the need for faith and the point that "overcoming sermons" may have their value but that more is needed are strong points. I'm sorry that the clip cuts off when it does.

 

We become God's mission---The Rev. Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski on 4-25-2022 at The Seminary of the Southwest

 

WATCH NOW: National Mobilization All-Call & Rally

 

"Our Easter faith is about remembering"---The Very Rev. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge the Great Vigil of Easter 2022

 

'Rediscovering Lost Values' February 28, 1954---Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

Bishop William J. Barber II sermon “Is There A Word in the Wilderness?”

 

The Very Rev. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge 4-11-2022---A Teaching Sermon at The Seminary of the Southwest

 

Sermon - Leave It There - Pastor J.B. Jackson

 Excellent advice and teaching!

A Compelling Sermon With A Black History Emphasis

 

'RETHINKING HEAVEN' - Rev. Marlin Lavanhar

 

"Reproductive Justice is Justice for All" w/Rev. Barbara Prose & Rev. Marlin Lavanhar