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In bookstores now!
From Oxford University Press, Claiming the Call to Preach
For working preachers…
Go beyond words written on the page to words inscribed on the hearts of listeners
For Every Matter Under Heaven
In this new work from Fortress Press, Beverly Zink-Sawyer and I provide some key insights into preaching on occasions outside a preacher’s ordinary Sunday morning sermon. This process helps preachers create sermons that are biblically grounded and relevant to unique seasons in life, enabling them to offer a word for every matter under Heaven.
Read or view my latest sermon
If you are searching for a Word from God in your life, feel free to listen, watch, or read my latest sermon or sermons from throughout my ministry. I hope you find them meaningful!
Searching for ways to make a difference?
You can have more of an impact than you realize.
Heart
Use your heart to reach out to others.
Take the 21-day racial justice challenge, to change your heart, one day at a time.
Join CPCBA for our August Book Study, reading I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown. Visit this link for more information or fill out this brief survey to let us know you’ll be attending.
Join “Be The Bridge,” a Facebook group focused on racial reconciliation, through building a structured learning process (with a Christian focus).
Head
Expand your mind by reading and listening.
Read a book or listen to a podcast to learn about racism and white privilege we might not be aware of.
Read the letter from Ralph Lowe, Director of Justice Ministries for Pittsburgh Presbytery: “Dear White Siblings in Christ…”
Listen to conversations between Ralph Lowe and Brian Wallace: Introduction. Episode 1: Let’s Talk. Episode 2: Defining Racist and Racism.
Enjoy any of these podcasts:
Hands
Jump right in and engage with your hands.
Donate money to fund racial justice.
Join the CPCBA Angels in making masks and providing for their community.
Follow Black voices on social media:
Ibram X. Kendi
Ally Henny
Chanequa Walker-Barnes
Latasha Morrison
Austin Channing Brown
PushBlack
Rachel Elizabeth Cargle
Dr. Amanda Kemp
Lisa Sharon Harper
“God, for what we have done—knowingly or unknowingly—to support racism, we are truly sorry. Help us to use our heads to be well informed and guide us toward intentional, meaningful action. Help us to use our hands to reach out and make a difference for good. Help us to use our hearts to reflect the truth that black lives matter to you, and so they should matter to us. Empower us to use all that we have and all that we are to do justice, love kindness and walk humbly with you. Amen and Amen.”
— My prayer for anti-racism
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