I Am Somebody: Celebrating Identity, Baptism, and Black History

If you're looking or need a church home and the Lord is drawing you to Mount Moriah where you can be planted, where you can grow, where you can be all that God has called you to be. I wish I could tell you you could do it on your own, but we were created to exist in community. And we only reach where the Lord has us to go when we are connected with a community of saints to be all that God has called us to be. We offer Christ to you, my brother and my sister. [01:23:34] (33 seconds)  #FindChurchCommunity

Uncomfortable feelings are actually teachers, they teach us. When facts give us feelings we don't like, we don't run. We sit in it. We learn. We grow. We invite the holy spirit to help us sort through this. That's how individuals grow, communities grow, societies grow, and the world changes for the better. Scripture puts it this way in Hosea four six, my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge. [01:09:05] (35 seconds)  #GrowThroughDiscomfort

We all have areas that need improvement and those should be called to our attention and there should be accountability there. However, over critical people are unhappy with who they are and they take it out on you by being over critical of you. They try to make you feel bad in order to make themselves feel better. In essence, they are attempting to feel good but they already feel bad and the way that plays out is they try to make you feel the way they already feel. They come off as know it alls but inside they really don't feel smart, they feel insignificant and like they aren't good enough. [01:15:59] (82 seconds)  #StopProjection

we get it and you do look good and I love that you love black culture, but let me ask you a question. What do you know about black history? That's not history, double p. That's a ridiculously narrow highlight reel with most of the story missing. Well, double p, history isn't about a feeling, whether it be good or bad. History is about telling the truth even when the truth makes us uncomfortable. [01:07:13] (54 seconds)  #LearnBlackHistory

Well well, this is a psalm that that king David wrote. He's a man that was after god's own heart. He was a king. He did many great things. The word fearfully here comes from a fancy Hebrew word called Yarah. It means to fear, revere and stand in awe. The word conveys reverence, awe and a holy weightiness. [01:11:43] (28 seconds)  #LiveWithAwe

History is not about a feeling. It's about a fact. And there is no salvation without acknowledging trauma. We celebrate each and every first Sunday, the most traumatic event a man could go through, the most traumatic event God could go through, being betrayed, being bruised, being punished for a crime you didn't commit, the embarrassment of being hung on a cross, [01:21:07] (42 seconds)  #AcknowledgeTrauma

If you wipe out even the worst of the past, you'll miss the goodness of God in the present. And so if a puppet can learn that, anybody can learn that. I want to offer and extend an invitation to you if you don't know Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior. If you have not acknowledged the trauma that he went through [01:22:19] (44 seconds)  #HealingThroughRemembrance

Well, double p, history isn't about a feeling, whether it be good or bad. History is about telling the truth even when the truth makes us uncomfortable. When we don't know history, humanity has a way of repeating the worst parts and the worst mistakes of the past. And that's why it's concerning when parts of our history are whitewashed, erased, or removed, [01:07:55] (32 seconds)  #NoWhitewashingHistory