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Monday, October 31, 2016

PUSH

Imagine you know you have less than 24 hours to live.  You gather your best friends around you and tell them, but they don’t believe you. They say you’re too calm, too peaceful, to healthy to die. How can you explain? How can you make them understand and at the same time, give them the words to guide them through grief and loss and into peace and strength?

In the text for Sunday’s sermon, Jesus was in exactly that situation. The Lord answered His friends with a metaphor about . . . childbirth.  Yes, childbirth.

Turn to the closing half of John 16.  The title of sermon is PUSH.


Listen well.

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---Anderson T. Graves II   is a writer, community organizer and consultant for education, ministry, and rural leadership development.

Rev. Anderson T. Graves II is pastor of Miles Chapel CME Church in Fairfield, Alabama;  executive director of the Substance Abuse Youth Networking Organization (SAYNO);  and director of rural leadership development for the National Institute for Human Development (NIHD).

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