Life Doesn’t Get Much Simpler than This

Here is a sure-fire, three step solution to simplify your busy, complicated life. Ready. Ok. Believe me you will be amazed! Step 1: Act justly. Step 2: Love mercy. Step 3: Walk humbly with your God. That's it! I told you it was pretty simple. Everything that God requires of us, He has laid out …

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The Great Divorce

I don't know about you, but I am finding an interesting dynamic playing out in the church today and those loosely affiliated with the church among people concerned about social justice. As a result of a deep history of injustice, oppression, exploitation and slavery, some people are divorcing the Gospel from messages of social justice …

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Video: Spurring Change for Social Justice

I just put together this one minute video that I would love for you to watch. Where do we start? How do we, as a church, as a people, create the change that we so desperately need. Send me your own ideas in a video to ebanna22@gmail.com. I am excited to hear what you have …

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Slavery? In the 21st Century?

Many people are led to believe that slavery was abolished centuries ago. Perhaps in some forms it has, well at least formally, so that it is no longer an accepted or legal practice. But informally, slavery or human trafficking is alive and well. Human trafficking operates all over the world most commonly as forced labor …

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Exploring Communion as a Means of Reconciliation

Apartheid is a form of racial segregation that affected South Africa for decades. Most effective during the period of 1948 and 1982, the Nationalist party’s aim was to divide the country into separate states based on race. Undeniably, these actions led to many fiscal and economic disparities in the black parts of the country. Places …

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