Sermon Illustrations about Black History Month
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Air Force Academy Head Challenges Racism on Campus
After racial slurs were scrawled outside black students' doors at the US Air Force Academy's preparatory school, Superintendent Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria ...
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The Resurrection Proved its Power among African Americans
A recent (2018) article in Christianity Today traces how early African American Christianity proved the power of the Resurrection against oppression.
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Frederick Douglass Challenged Christians to Live Without Hypocrisy
In his 77 years, Frederick Douglass, America's most famous abolitionist, delivered thousands of speeches, wrote three autobiographies, started newspapers, ...
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'Klan Whisperer' Dismantles White Supremacy through Conversation
Daryl Davis tends to attract attention and vitriol whenever he's seen at political demonstrations, but he's used to it.
According to CNN, in early December, ...
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Rosa Parks Was the Right Person at the Right Place and Time
A blog on The Henry Ford website remembers the brave decision made by Rosa Parks in 1955:
It's one of the most famous moments in modern American civil ...
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The Sermon That Changed Rosa Parks' Life
In his book, Chase the Lion Mark Batterson shares that:
Shortly after being installed as the twentieth pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, ...
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John Perkins Shares His Greatest Regret
The Christian leader John Perkins has written movingly about the need for racial reconciliation even after his painful encounters with brutal racists. ...
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Harriet Tubman's Practice of Scripture Meditation
Harriet Tubman was a spy who, even in moments of extreme danger, demonstrated nothing but raw, calm courage. Born into slavery in the 1820s, Harriet was ...
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The First North American Missionary—a Freed Slave
The first missionary from North America was George Liele, a former slave who left the American colonies for Jamaica in 1782 and began a ministry of preaching ...
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Woman Prays Her Way Through Injustice
Bryan Stephenson, author of Just Mercy and founder of an organization that tries to help those unjustly convicted of crimes, was trying to free a man ...
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