What Martin Luther King Jr. Would Say Today
Detroit West District M. L.King Jr., Celebration, January 8, 2005 “I will not listen to the music of your harps but let justice roll down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.” Amos 5:24 As we celebrate another birthday of one of America’s greatest prophets and freedom fighters, more than any time since his […]
Let Justice Roll Down Like Waters
Delivered on the Lord’s Day | November 7, 2004 Amos 5:16-24 Matthew 6:24 “Take away from me the noise of your songs, For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments. But let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.” Amos 6:23-24 “No one can serve two masters; for […]
The Political Responsibilities of the Christian Church
Delivered on The Lord’s Day | September 26, 2004 Proverbs 31:8-9 Ecclesiastes 4:1-12 Matthew 5:14-16 James 2:14-26 “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly: defend the rights of the poor and needy.” Proverbs 31:8-9 “You are the light of the […]
The Dream and The Nightmare
Delivered on the Lord’s Day | January 20, 2002 National Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration, Morehouse College Chapel, Genesis 37: 12-22 “Here comes that dreamer!” they said to each other. “Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns……” Ever since an assassin’s bullet slammed into the skull of […]
“Our Common Ground.”
Delivered on the Occasion of the Governor of The State of Michigan’s First Annual Interfaith Service January 10, 2002 Isaiah 43:14 “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up. Do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert […]
