- Acceptance and Love, Desert of Solitude: Refreshed by Grace, Gentleness, Get Up & Walk, On the Road, Spirit Harvest
A week of prayer, fasting and protest
Jesus didn't come to tell us how horrible we are. He's not about condemnation. Jesus is love.
- Faith, Film Reviews, Gentleness, Grace, Hope, Hospitality, Identity, Knowledge & Understanding, Leadership, Life, Love, Obedience, Pop Culture v. The Bible, Prayer, Relationship with God, Spirit Harvest, Strength, Submission, Testimony, Thanksgiving, Trust, Video, Walking in the Word, Wisdom
Film: A Dream for Christmas (1973)
A Dream for Christmas was made in 1973 but is set in 1950. It should be on a classic Christmas movie rotation every year, but it's not. It's a really good story about a family working together through change and challenges. It's a slice of life and a looking glass into an every day poor African-American experience pre-Civil Rights Movement. Very intriguing. Very warm. Very well done.
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Sermon: SPEAKING FOR GOD IN A HOPELESS TIME
"Sometimes we miss the power of God because of it's simplicity. We think it should be more complicated..... Jesus appeared as an ordinary person. He never appeared in recognizable form. He was still Jesus, but not in the form people expected to see Him in. He appeared as a Gardener. How amazing is that? He was telling us that He will have a body here on earth. Many bodies in the form of ordinary people walking in the power of God." ~ Pastor Carter Conlon
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A grown man cried in my arms tonight.
From my own experience, it's when I try my hardest to be strong - exhibiting my idea of strength, anyway - that I am the most brittle. In my brittleness, I easily break. However, as I learned again that evening, it is in my gentleness that others see power and strength in me.
