Tag: racism

  • It’s Been A While, But I’m Finally in a Healthy Frame of Mind

    It’s Been A While, But I’m Finally in a Healthy Frame of Mind

    Hurt is hard. I realized in the last month that it has been more than a year since I have done any serious writing. I had given up on ministry and started my own business because, frankly, I was done being hurt. At the beginning of 2023, a friend of mine (a couple, actually) told…

  • Systemic Oppression and the Christian

    Systemic Oppression and the Christian

    Systemic oppression has taken many forms over the eons including tribalism, nationalism, racism, politicism, supremacism, victimism, social darwinism, etc… I have waited to address the issue of systemic oppression from the pulpit because we walk through the Scriptures and we had not yet approached a text that addressed the subject and I had no immediate…

  • God’s Structure for Ministry

    God’s Structure for Ministry

    Previously, we began discussing together the structure that God has for His people both in the Old Testament and in the New. We have discovered that God is building a kingdom of priests, where every believer is a priest. From that kingdom, God calls out positional priests (the pastors, elders, overseers, and bishops of the…

  • Dealing with Oppression? #racism #sexism

               There is much in the world today that causes me to wonder why the people of God suffer while those who hate God continue to prosper. I remember the Israelites, as they were captive in Egypt. While Egypt, a people who despised the God of the Israelites, prospered, God’s people were subject to slavery.…