What the Justice Generation Needs to Learn About Race and Slavery

I’m on a break between quarters after grading  numerous papers.

One of the final ones was written by an African American pastor who is a great guy. But he made a fatal mistake often found among preachers obtaining degrees. He preached a passionate sermon in his paper (what he already knew) instead of telling me what he learned from a classic book on world missions.

He spent half the paper speaking about racism. 

I thanked him for his burden, but had to knock his grade for not following directions. His paper provoked a question: 

What does the “justice generation” need to learn about race and slavery?

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Happy Birthday Jesus! There’s No One Like You

Two days from now we will halt our busy schedules and remember the birthday of Jesus. It is celebrated by more people around the globe than any other holiday.

Why?

Because no greater person ever walked the earth than Jesus Christ.

For the next two weeks I will re-publish the most widely read blogs I have ever written. They’re important because they focus on the one person who’s most crucial to our lives–both here on earth and also after we die.

He is “the Way” in both realms.

Merry Christmas. There is no one like Jesus.

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Are You Growing Your Cultural Trinity?

A disputed election with great ramifications for America’s future lingers on. Covid still stalks the land though a vaccine is near.

This week a majority Americans said Thanksgiving 2020 was the most stressful holiday of their lives. And Christmas is coming.

Now, more than ever. you need to be enlarging your cultural trinity.

What is the cultural trinity and how do I grow it in my life?

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