Tag: Freedom

SET FREE FROM CURIOSITY

ByDr. Mark January 22, 2025 0 Comments
Arriving early for Sunday School with her grandmother and one of her sisters, a saint who is always on time, a young girl, a darling sociable preschooler, after giving hugs and hellos to the adults, came up to me, the senior pastor. Knowing I was approachable. She may have been holding back on this question for a little while, but not Sunday. Noticing one of my canine teeth was missing, she...

CERTIFICATE OF FREEDOM

ByDr. Mark August 31, 2024 0 Comments
“…and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (Philippians 3:13-14 The Living Bible) Thursday morning, I was reading selected pages from “Indiana’s African American Heritage: More Essays from Black History & Notes from 2007-2017,” A book edited by Wilma Gibbs Moore. Don’t let the dates in the title make you think this publication of the Indiana Historical...

“A DAY TO FOCUS ON FREEDOM”

ByDr. Mark July 4, 2023 0 Comments
“Christ has set us free! This means we are really free.  Now hold on to your freedom…’” (Galatians 5:1a Contemporary English Version) On this July 4th morning in the year 2023, let me once again present to you something spoken by Jesus.  You know it is going to be profound.  For you already are aware of the fact that every time that Jesus said something in His earthly ministry, it was...

FREEDOM

ByDr. Mark January 16, 2023 0 Comments
“And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last!  Thank God...

JUNE 19TH AND EVERY DAY TO COME

ByDr. Mark June 19, 2021 0 Comments
“So if the Son sets you free, you are truly free.” (John 8:36 NLT) Working ahead one morning this week, I opened up my computer to search for a passage to draft a meditation for a future meditation, but I was delayed by an announcement that on June 19, 2021, we will have a new national holiday, Juneteenth!  There was an added comment in the announcement that there was still more work to...