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A working partnership, successful at curbing violence, expands nationwide.
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Recognize prayerful power in the battles against Satan, sin and self.
How to let your faith in God work in your personal and public dilemmas.
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MEDIA THAT TAKES YOU HIGHER
POWER LUNCH
WHEN PRAYERS LEFT PUBLIC SCHOOLS
DR. WANGARI MAATHAI
PLAYING IN THE DIRT
“RESOLUTIONARY” COMMUNICATIONS
FAITH IS NOT A SUPERPOWER!
THE FEELING OF OUR INFIRMITIES
HEBREWS 2:18
GROWING UP
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in Manuel Miranda’s character, “Sonny” in the musical “In the Heights,” is sensitive to the power imbalance between the haves and have nots. His Washington Heights immigrant community is scraping by. As part of the immigrant working class, he notices societal structures at work around him and against him. For once, he muses (in a crazy fantasy about winning a mere $96,000 in the lottery) he would do something about it.
When Prayers Left Public Schools
opining about the evil taking place in public schools, it’s not unusual for it to be attributed to when prayers led by public school personnel became illegal in public schools.
In 2008, Joseph Kennedy, a High School varsity and junior varsity football coach in Bremerton, Washington started praying with his players before and after games. He would also take a knee and pray at the 50-yard line with his players at the conclusion of each game.
r. Wangari Maathai was born on Apr. 1, 1940 in Nyeri, Kenya. In 2004, Maathai became the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work in environmental and economic justice. In 2005 she was one of Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World.” In 2006 she was awarded the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament, and Development, and the list of her awards goes on. In the effervescent eloquence of Carl Carlton, she was “A Bad Mama Jama.
Dr. Maathai’s concern for poor farming communities led her to connect the dots between Earth care and existential issues of food, fuel, clothing, gender inequality, disease, and warfare. Her organization, The Green Belt Movement, was responsible for planting over 30 million trees in a massive, international reforestation campaign. However, as she said in the following excerpt from her Nobel lecture in 2004, they weren’t sowing ordinary seeds:
epending on where you live, it’s time to play in the dirt. We Southerners tend to get out there around Easter time—taking that annual leap of faith by planting seeds of foods we love to eat! I cannot tell you the joy you feel when you pick that ripe tomato or cut into that sweet watermelon or pour a cup of peppermint tea. The sense of accomplishment that you actually grew something that you can actually eat is “UH-MAZING!”
When you look at the Gospels in the Bible and read the story of the Sower, you notice that when he sowed the seed it fell on a variety of ground—stony, by the wayside, among thorns, and the good. The success of the seed and harvest depended a lot upon the soil. Getting there, however, can take some work.
Conflict Resolution’s Biggest Enemy
This is one of the reasons why so many couples avoid conflict with every fiber of their beings. After all, who wants to adopt something that seems harmful? So we embrace avoidance instead. Yes, avoidance is probably the biggest factor in unresolved conflict. But what if we told you the road to total intimacy leads through conflict, and that if we can learn to face it head-on, we would be much more connected with our spouse?
It can also be described as the rise in the general level of prices, which means that a unit of currency effectively buys less than it did in prior periods. If you have recently filled your vehicle with gasoline or visited the supermarket, inflation is no longer some abstract or obscure economic theory. It’s a pragmatic and practical global experience impacting our daily lives.
Because of inflation, you now put thought into your commute or travel experience. Because of inflation, you now list and order your grocery needs by priority. Because of inflation, so many of your financial decisions have changed.
These texts enrich your resolve.
These texts enrich your resolve.
“So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace” (Romans 8:6, NLT).
This baggage, I know, sometimes contains that which comforted you in the darkest times of your life. It had you feeling so alive while you thought you were so empty and dead inside; alcohol, drugs, premarital sex, gambling, partying, toxic relationships, pride, etc. It’s hard to think about leaving this baggage behind, especially when you don’t know what will give you the “comfort and relief” you’re used to. But I can tell you, from personal experience—because that is the only way I can relate this—it is hard, and basically impossible, to carry that baggage and try to carry God in our hearts too.
Spiritual warfare operates on many fronts in our day-to-day activities and relationships. Three enemies work consistently to separate us from Jesus, hinder our spiritual growth, and bring us to ruin in every area of our lives. These enemies are: sin, self, and Satan.
The main ingredient for success is your faith.
This is a spiritual battle, and it is not yours.
This battle belongs to the King of Glory, and
The Lord strong and mighty,
the Lord mighty in battle” (Psalms 24:8, KJV).
Revival comes only in answer to prayer—prayer that disturbs the peace of paralysis.
God calls those whom He has delivered already from the plantation of the slave master. Some have been bound by the crops of addictions, of abuse, of hopelessness.
“Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness” (Romans 6:16-17, KJV).
“Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you” (Matthew 17:20).
Jesus recognized how difficult it was for His disciples to believe. He expressed that because they had “so little faith” that He would actually adjust the results of what tiny faith could produce. He makes the threshold for the miraculous, low and attainable. He says that if you have faith the size of a “mustard seed”—which is the tiniest of all seeds—the result would be that mountains would be displaced at our request.
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“In that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted” (Hebrews 2:18, KJV).
“In that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted” (Hebrews 2:18, KJV).
hrist alone had experience in all the sorrows and temptations that befall human beings. Never another of woman born was so fiercely beset by temptation; never another bore so heavy a burden of the world’s sin and pain.
“Never was there another whose sympathies were so broad or so tender. A sharer in all the experiences of humanity, He could feel not only for, but with, every burdened and tempted and struggling one.
“What He taught, He lived. ‘I have given you an example,’ He said to His disciples; ‘that ye should do as I have done.’
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Red – Jesus, his attributes
Green – Promised gift
Brown – Sin, Trouble, Hardship
- What about this verse stands out to me?
- How is this different from the life I live now? Read 1 Peter 5:7.
- How does this passage challenge me? Read 2 Timothy 2:12.
- What does this passage say about Jesus? How do I see Him working? Compare Jude 1:24.
- Assess myself. What am I missing in my life that God wants me to have? See Philippians 3:21.
- Is there someone else who could use this in their life? How would I share it?
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I Had a Stake in the Story
Interview with Clare Coss, playwright and librettist of “Emmett Till A New American Opera”
“I was a student at LSU in Baton Rouge, when Emmett Till was lynched.
I woke up at dawn one morning and I just felt this kind of spiritual mandate to write about Emmitt Till, and how could I as a white woman enter this story, and that role of the teacher came into my mind—a person who cares, but who’s silent. And it’s kind of what Martin Luther King Jr. said: that the greatest tragedy is the silence of good people. So I wanted to give an arc to this character from where she cares, but is silent, to where she takes a first step towards the responsibility and speaking as a teacher to her students.
Maybe it was [my friend, famous writer and feminist poet Audre Lorde] who told me that ‘you know, black people don’t like other people telling their stories. And, you know, people like you might think you understand that but you don’t, and you never will.’ So I thought, how can I write about this as a white woman?
Because I felt like the impact in the Emmett Till murder had an impact on my life, I felt that this was part of my story. And when I approached writing the play, my conviction was that this tragedy is a shared tragic history of our country. White people as perpetrators and witnesses of white supremacy, have a stake in this story. Everybody has a stake in this story.”
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