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.
If
you can’t get the audio on your device, visit the main podcast page at http://revandersongraves.podomatic.com/
---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).
Email atgravestwo2@aol.com
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mourning, joy, peace
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