Sermon Illustrations on Oppression
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Liberation and the God of the Oppressed - Story
A story related to this content The Black Church has always proclaimed a Gospel that speaks to both spiritual and social liberation. When Jesus stood in the synagogue and read from Isaiah—'The Spirit...
Liberation and the God of the Oppressed - Contemporary Example
A contemporary example of this content The Black Church has always proclaimed a Gospel that speaks to both spiritual and social liberation. When Jesus stood in the synagogue and read from Isaiah—'The...
The Promise and the Prophecy: A Covenant of Justice
In the sweltering heat of a Texas summer in 1968, civil rights leader Cesar Chavez sat with farmworkers under a makeshift tent, promising them that their struggle for fair wages and dignity would not be in vain....
When Unity Becomes Uniformity: Lessons from Babel and Black Panther
In Marvel's "Black Panther" (2018), Killmonger challenges Wakanda's isolationist policies with a powerful question: "Two billion people all over the world who look like us whose lives are much harder, and Wakanda has the tools to liberate them all. And what do you do?...
From Fruitfulness to Fulfillment: God's Multiplication in Exodus and the Digital Age
Exodus 1:7 declares, "The Israelites were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them." This explosion of life echoes God's origi...