Recently added articles from The African American Pulpit:
A Time to Say GOOD-BYE
Jul 01, 2008; Washington, Katara A ... Three years ago, I was blessed to begin serving as coexecutive editor of The African American Pulpit. Ironically the first issue I worked on was the Summer issue of 2005-our second "20 to Watch" issue (we run this popular issue featuring promising preachers under age 40 approximately every 3 ...
A WORD from the President and Publisher
Jul 01, 2008; Simmons, Martha ... I would be remiss if I did not take the time to say thank you to Reverend Katara A. Washington. For the past three years, her professionalism, hard work, and congenial spirit helped keep TAAP as the standard bearer among religious journals that serve African Americans. She is one of the most ...
A WORD from the Coexecutive Editor
Jul 01, 2008; Gibson, Eugene L Jr ... In closing, as the partner to Katara Washington for the past three years, let me add my thanks to her first for her friendship and second for her professionalism as a partner in this work. I will miss you, but thanks for the lifelong bond that has been formed. Continue to soar, as I know you ...
The DANGER of Misunderstanding Generational Gaps in the LOCAL CHURCH
Jul 01, 2008; White, Chad A Sr ... A relevant question that is being posed to the body of Christ is: How do we meet the needs of the various generations that exist in our churches and communities? This question has caused disagreements, arguments, fights, and even church splits. This problem does not discriminate; it crosses ...
THE IMPORTANCE OF Dramatic Narrative and Storytelling in Preaching
Jul 01, 2008; Smith, Robert Jr ... The Bible is like a finely-cut diamond. There are many facets to it. But you can never look at the diamond in its completeness with one glimpse. It takes many glimpses. It's the same with the biblical narratives. We keep going back to them, preaching the same story, because there's another ...
Pneumatology, the Church, and SOCIAL CRISIS
Jul 01, 2008; Wills, Richard W Sr ... As long as there is a human species, there will be human suffering of one sort or another. I often give thought to how the God who created humanity figures into this pathos of human pain and unbridled social perplexity. Most would stand with the gospel writer who revealed God as that one who "so ...
20 TO WATCH
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... These 20 outstanding young African American ministers under the age of 40 are playing a major role in helping to shape the future direction of the African American Church. MICHAEL JOSEPH BROWN is one of the 21st century's new and outstanding biblical scholars. He is associate professor ...
A Perspective on SPIRITUALITY and the Musical Arts in the African American Tradition
Jul 01, 2008; Williams, Nolan Jr ... This is an edited version of the keynote lecture delivered for the 2007 Amalfi Coast Music and Arts Festival and Festival Musica e Filosofia-Istituto Politea, Napoli at the Complesso monumentale di S. Lorenzo Maggiore-Naples. My task today is to offer thoughts on the theme of ...
Just Be FAITHFUL
Jul 01, 2008; Brown, Michael Joseph ... Luke 17:5-10, NRSV The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!" The Lord replied, "If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you. "Who among you would say to your slave who has ...
From PROCLAMATION to Protest
Jul 01, 2008; Coates, Delman ... Acts 4:13-22 and 5:27-29, 40-42, NIV When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus. But since they could see the man who had been healed standing there with ...
LIVING on the Left Side of God
Jul 01, 2008; Davis, Christopher B ... Job 23:8-10, KJV "Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I ...
When YOU'RE Sinking
Jul 01, 2008; Fomby, Sheleta E ... Matthew 14:22-31, NRSV Immediately [Jesus] made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone, but by this time the ...
The CURSE of Being Average
Jul 01, 2008; Goodman, Charles E Jr ... Numbers 13:30-33, NIV Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, "We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it." But the men who bad gone up with him said, "We can't attack those people; they are stronger than we are." And they spread among the ...
FAVOR and Flossin'
Jul 01, 2008; Jones, Christopher Michael ... Genesis 37:19-22, NIV "Here comes that dreamer!" they said to each other. "Come now, let's kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we'll see what comes of his dreams." When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their ...
When God Is MISSING
Jul 01, 2008; Jones, R Timothy ... Job 23:1-10 "If only I knew where to find him; if only I could go to his dwelling! ... But if I go east, he is not there; if I go to the west, I do not find him. When he is at work in the north, I do not see him; when he turns to the south, I catch no glimpse of him. But he knows the way ...
Sacrificial GIVING
Jul 01, 2008; Kinloch, Solomon Jr ... Mark 12:41-44, NIV Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a fraction of a ...
Do YOU Have the Fruit of the SPIRIT?
Jul 01, 2008; Marshall, Eboni K ... Galatians 5:22-25, KJV But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also ...
Law and ORDER
Jul 01, 2008; Patterson, Alan Lamar ... Mark 2:1-12, RSV And when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. And many were gathered together, so that there was no longer room for them, not even about the door; and he was preaching the word to them. And they came, bringing to him a paralytic ...
The JOURNEY to the Well
Jul 01, 2008; Ridley, Kimberly A ... Luke 17:11-19, NRSV On the way to Jerusalem Jesus was going through the region between Samaria and Galilee. As he entered a village, ten lepers approached him. Keeping their distance, they called out, saying, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!" When he saw them, he said to them, "Go and ...
A NATION'S Amnesia
Jul 01, 2008; Warnock, Raphael Gamaliel ... Exodus 1:6-14, NRSV Then Joseph died, and all his brothers, and that whole generation. But the Israelites were fruitful and prolific; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them. Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. He ...