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  • Politics Is Like Hiring A Hitman
    by Scott Woods inPolitical on2020-08-13

    For me, politics is like hiring a hitman. I have values and things I care about. I care enough about them to at least bother voting for 5 minutes every year for one issue or another. And because I care at least that much, I vote for people who align with the ability to realize the things I care about.

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  • Punching Above Our Weight
    by Roger Madison Jr. inPolitical on2020-07-24

    I believe our vote is the punctuation of our voice. Without that resounding exclamation mark, I believe our voices are just incoherent noise.

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  • BLACK PROGRESS AMIDST SOCIAL CHAOS
    by Roger Madison Jr. inPolitical on2020-06-16

    Recent events have raised the profile of historical injustice and inequities here in the USA. The entire world has taken note of the fact that BLACK LIVES MATTER.   We invite all of our friends to engage in actions that result in the greatest movement for change in our history. It is imperative that we take advantage of this opportunity to affect a positive change by ACTING IN OUR SELF-INTERESTS.

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  • Living in a Black No-Man's Land
    by Roger Madison Jr. inOur Community on2019-10-28

    There are many narratives that define the Black experience in America in this 2nd decade of the 21st century. Our striving over the centuries of our sojourn in this nation is a tapestry of every human experience -- oppression, enslavement, forced assimilation, dehumanization, exclusion, segregation, isolation, struggle, perseverance, achievement, excellence, celebration, mourning, despair, progress, setbacks, lynching, assassination, genocide, terror, self-hatred, low esteem, pride,...

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  • Fighting Racism
    by Scott Woods inOur Community on2018-10-25

    I had a boss who was racist. Not an outright bigot, of course; her toolbox was more subtle than most. We bumped heads a lot over inconsequential things. She frequently couldn’t keep my name out her mouth. Lot of gaslighting. You know…2018 style. I tried a lot of ways to combat or navigate her issues. None of them worked, and that’s saying a lot because I’m really good at fighting racism. But at the end of the day – every day – she was my boss, I had to deal with her, and that was that. Finally I...

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Acts 6:8-15; 7:1-2a Sunday School Lesson for 10/7/12

In my Sunday School Book we are in Unit II.  Who Understands Faith?  The title of the lesson is "Courage to Speak."  

In the Introduction of my lesson that is a link to an article at ezinearticles.com which is Having The Courage To Speak The Truth by Sandra Ford Walston.  You may read it at this link:  http://ezinearticles.com/4289560 .

Stephen was chosen to oversee food distribution to the widows of the community.  He was a Hellenists Jew which means he made Greek his tongue, and adopted Greek ideas and practices (Acts 6:1; 9:29).  He was full of faith and of the Holy Spirit.  He was spiritually giftd (I Corinthians 12:1-11).  He was the first to do miracles who was not an apostle.  He walked with God.  

Stephen, a powerful deacon/evangelist, the first martyr.

Acts 6:8-15

Verse 8 - Miracles, Miracles Considered, The Apostolic Miracles

Verses 9-13:  Trials and Persecutions, Kinds and Methods of Persecution, False Accusations

Verse 14 - The Hebrews, Jerusalem, Destruction by the Romans Foretold

Verse 15 - Angels, Good Angels, Men Compared with Angels

 

Acts 7:1-2a

Verse 1 - Trials and Persecutions, Kinds and Methods of Persecution, False Accusation

Verse 2a - The Hebrews, God's Chosen People

Scripture Reference used/taken from:  Holy Bible Topical Reference Edition KJV.  Crusade Bible Publishers, Inc., 1970.  Mt. Juliet, Tennesee; USA; 37122.

 

Angela Watkins .. http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Angela_Watkins_Thomas