JUSTICE FROM PREDATORS

Blogging the Bible.  Genesis 9:1-7

Noah and his family where he Adams and Eves of the post-Flood world.  God even commissioned them with the same blessing and purpose He’d bestowed on the original pair in Eden. 

So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. (Genesis 9:1)

But God went ever farther.  Prior to the Flood people had been just one of many species trying to gather and grow enough vegetation to survive.  An intelligent and spiritually conscious species made in the image of God.  But just one of many.  In fact, if you look at the story of the Fall from a slightly different perspective and consider that scripture called the Edenic serpent

“more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God” (Gen. 3:1),  and factor in the implications that the snake was smarter than the people, well then, even allegorically speaking, though humans were NOT at the top of the food chain. Uniquely made in the image of God, yes.  But not the species to be voted most likely to succeed in the nearly prehistoric landscape.

After the Flood, that changed.  Mankind became an apex predator.

And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, on every bird of the air, on all that move on the earth, and on all the fish of the sea.  They are given into your hand. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs. (Genesis 9:2,3)

Mankind became THE apex predator.  The tippy top of the global food chain.

But with great power comes great responsibility.

Look at how sin and crime were addressed before the Flood.  Adam and Eve didn’t judge Cain.  God did.  Lamech wasn’t worried about the community punishing for killing a young man.  He expected the same treatment as Cain.  In the antecedent sins the Flood nobody seemed to do anything about everybody doing the worst possible things they could do. If these instances were typical, then God had been the direct and only administrator of justice.  Post-Flood, the Lord delegated that task.

Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man his blood shall be shed; for in the image of God He made man. (Genesis 9:6)

People must carry out justice among people.  The blessing of dominion over the natural world comes with the responsibility to maintain justice in human society.

And justice isn’t optional.  In verse 5, God requires justice for and from every man.

Genesis 9 declares the death penalty for murder.  The passage doesn’t talk explicitly discuss any other crimes.  Does that mean that it's O.K. to lie, or to steal, or to violate someone's civil rights?  Of course it doesn’t.    The call to justice for the worst crime necessarily assumes righteous adjudication of all “lesser” offenses.  It takes more than executions to create a just community.  But whatever it takes, as the species God placed at the top of the food chain, it is our responsibility to make sure that justice --- actual justice --- is done.

Whether we like it or not.

As Jesus said:  For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more. --- Luke 12: 48

---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).

Subscribe to my personal blog  www.andersontgraves.blogspot.com .

Email atgravestwo2@aol.com

Friend me at www.facebook.com/rev.a.t.graves

Follow me on twitter @AndersonTGraves  #Awordtothewise 

You can help support this ministry with a donation to Miles Chapel CME Church.

You can help support Rev. Graves’ work by visiting his personal blog and clicking the DONATE button on the right-hand sidebar.

Support by check or money order may be mailed to 

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P O Box 132

Fairfield, Al 35064

DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? THE GREAT FLOOD.

 Blogging Genesis.  Chapters 7 & 8

⁴ For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made.” (Genesis 7:4)

The Bible says that a long time ago, God made it rain so much that every man, woman, child, bird, and land-based animal who wasn’t inside Noah’s ark drowned.

Does that make sense?

There are over 7 billon people on this people.  How could one rain storm, even one that lasted almost a month and a half,  drown everybody? Wait. In Noah’s time, humans weren’t a global population.  We were a tiny emerging species, just a few generations old.  The descendants of Adam and Eve were only a few thousand people all concentrated in a small geographical area near Eden and Nod, the city Cain founded.    

The 1931 floods of the Yellow River in China killed at least 145,000 people.  Some estimates put the death toll between 3.7 million and 4 million.  A single series of localized flooding could kill millions of people.  In Noah’s time there were only thousands, maybe tens of thousands.

Does that make sense?

The Bible says that the waters rose so high that the mountains were covered  (Genesis 7:20).  But come on. Mt. Everest, the tallest mountain in the world (above sea level) is 60 million years old and 5 ½ miles high.  That’s 5 ½ miles of water  above normal sea level.  Seriously?

Does that make sense?

Noah and his children passed down the story of the Great Flood.  They described what they saw through stories and song, according to the great human oral tradition.  When Moses compiled Genesis into a single book he wrote what Noah and his family had seen.  From the deck of the Ark, they saw the rain fall.  They saw the waters rise and stretch to every horizon.  They saw trees and hills and mountains disappear so far below the waters that the ark could drift for year without running aground. Nothing beyond the ark moved except fish and water.  From the honest perspective of Noah, The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered. And all flesh died that moved on the earth. (Genesis 7:20, 21). 

Fifteen cubits is something like 7 ½ yards or about two stories.  Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the 2016 flooding of the Mississippi River both provided images of people standing in water waving for helicopters to rescue them from the tippy top of the roof of two and three story homes.

Does that make sense?

Oh, and it didn’t just rain.  Genesis 7:11 says that the along with rain so heavy that is seemed that the bottom had dropped out of the sky (the Bible more poetic says that and the windows of heaven were opened) --- along with that ---  on that day all the fountains (foundations) of the great deep were broken up.  Noah and, thousands of years later, Moses could not have known that the solid land on which they lived was actually a series of continent-sized island floating on an ocean of molten rock.  Nobody knew that until 1912 when Alfred Wegener published his theories on continental drift.  It’s not surprising that people thought Noah and Moses were making stuff up.  For 50 years, “modern” scientists that that the whole idea of continents resting on foundations that periodically shift and break apart were ridiculous.  

When the Great Flood started, rain fell, underground springs and geysers erupted, and the massive supercontinent (like Pangea) broke apart causing earthquakes, tidal waves, and volcanic eruptions.  Any poor souls not already sealed inside a giant boat under God’s personal protection were doomed.

Does that make sense?

Massive rains.  Prolonged, catastrophic flooding.  Earthquakes.  Tsunamis.  We have a term for all of that.  We call it “climate change.”  

Maybe the Earth’s magnetic poles reversed.  Maybe a natural cycle of temperature shift reached critical levels.  Something happened that altered the geographical face of the world forever.  Whatever it was so bad that every human who wasn’t prepared, died. 

A 2012 NPR article on ancient human populations states, “once in our history, the world-wide population of human beings skidded so sharply we were down to roughly a thousand reproductive adults. One study says we hit as low as 40 . . . "breeding pairs" (children not included).”

The Bible says that the actual number was 8. 

So Noah went out [of the ark], and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. (Genesis 8:18)

Does that make some sense now?

Noah and the Flood is a Bible story, but it’s not JUST a story.  It’s a collection of reasonable, logical truths warning us of the dread consequences of ignoring the weather.  

The Great Flood of Genesis is also a promise that God is aware of and ultimately in control of the climate, even when it changes in catastrophic ways.  

Then the Lord said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.

²²          “While the earth remains,

Seedtime and harvest,

Cold and heat,

Winter and summer,

And day and night

Shall not cease.” (Genesis 8:21-22)

God warns us to prepare for the changes that are coming, and He promised to protect us from the worse of climate change.    Neither fact cancels out the other.  

To treat the Genesis Flood as a fiction with no relevance to us now is to despise on of the earliest promises of grace and to miss one of the greatest  command for stewardship of the planet.

Climatologists warn that our time has already passed the tipping point at which rapid climate change is inevitable.  The rain is coming.  God won’t let us all perish, but we all still need to prepare.  

In Noah’s time, a lot of people died because they treated the Flood as just a story made up by some guy called Noah.  In our time, if we accept the truth of the story, it doesn’t have to be quite so bad.

Does that make sense?

---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).

Subscribe to my personal blog  www.andersontgraves.blogspot.com .

Email atgravestwo2@aol.com

Friend me at www.facebook.com/rev.a.t.graves

Follow me on twitter @AndersonTGraves  #Awordtothewise 

You can help support this ministry with a donation to Miles Chapel CME Church.

You can help support Rev. Graves’ work by visiting his personal blog and clicking the DONATE button on the right-hand sidebar.

Support by check or money order may be mailed to 

Miles Chapel CME Church

P O Box 132

Fairfield, Al 35064

THE GREAT FLOOD. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?

 Blogging Genesis.  Chapters 7 & 8

⁴ For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made.” (Genesis 7:4)

The Bible says that a long time ago, God made it rain so much that every man, woman, child, bird, and land-based animal who wasn’t inside Noah’s ark drowned.

Does that make sense?

There are over 7 billon people on this people.  How could one rain storm, even one that lasted almost a month and a half,  drown everybody? Wait. In Noah’s time, humans weren’t a global population.  We were a tiny emerging species, just a few generations old.  The descendants of Adam and Eve were only a few thousand people all concentrated in a small geographical area near Eden and Nod, the city Cain founded.    

The 1931 floods of the Yellow River in China killed at least 145,000 people.  Some estimates put the death toll between 3.7 million and 4 million.  A single series of localized flooding could kill millions of people.  In Noah’s time there were only thousands, maybe tens of thousands.

Does that make sense?

The Bible says that the waters rose so high that the mountains were covered  (Genesis 7:20).  But come on. Mt. Everest, the tallest mountain in the world (above sea level) is 60 million years old and 5 ½ miles high.  That’s 5 ½ miles of water  above normal sea level.  Seriously?

Does that make sense?

Noah and his children passed down the story of the Great Flood.  They described what they saw through stories and song, according to the great human oral tradition.  When Moses compiled Genesis into a single book he wrote what Noah and his family had seen.  From the deck of the Ark, they saw the rain fall.  They saw the waters rise and stretch to every horizon.  They saw trees and hills and mountains disappear so far below the waters that the ark could drift for year without running aground. Nothing beyond the ark moved except fish and water.  From the honest perspective of Noah, The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered. And all flesh died that moved on the earth. (Genesis 7:20, 21). 

Fifteen cubits is something like 7 ½ yards or about two stories.  Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the 2016 flooding of the Mississippi River both provided images of people standing in water waving for helicopters to rescue them from the tippy top of the roof of two and three story homes.

Does that make sense?

Oh, and it didn’t just rain.  Genesis 7:11 says that the along with rain so heavy that is seemed that the bottom had dropped out of the sky (the Bible more poetic says that and the windows of heaven were opened) --- along with that ---  on that day all the fountains (foundations) of the great deep were broken up.  Noah and, thousands of years later, Moses could not have known that the solid land on which they lived was actually a series of continent-sized island floating on an ocean of molten rock.  Nobody knew that until 1912 when Alfred Wegener published his theories on continental drift.  It’s not surprising that people thought Noah and Moses were making stuff up.  For 50 years, “modern” scientists that that the whole idea of continents resting on foundations that periodically shift and break apart were ridiculous.  

When the Great Flood started, rain fell, underground springs and geysers erupted, and the massive supercontinent (like Pangea) broke apart causing earthquakes, tidal waves, and volcanic eruptions.  Any poor souls not already sealed inside a giant boat under God’s personal protection were doomed.

Does that make sense?

Massive rains.  Prolonged, catastrophic flooding.  Earthquakes.  Tsunamis.  We have a term for all of that.  We call it “climate change.”  

Maybe the Earth’s magnetic poles reversed.  Maybe a natural cycle of temperature shift reached critical levels.  Something happened that altered the geographical face of the world forever.  Whatever it was so bad that every human who wasn’t prepared, died. 

A 2012 NPR article on ancient human populations states, “once in our history, the world-wide population of human beings skidded so sharply we were down to roughly a thousand reproductive adults. One study says we hit as low as 40 . . . "breeding pairs" (children not included).”

The Bible says that the actual number was 8. 

So Noah went out [of the ark], and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. (Genesis 8:18)

Does that make some sense now?

Noah and the Flood is a Bible story, but it’s not JUST a story.  It’s a collection of reasonable, logical truths warning us of the dread consequences of ignoring the weather.  

The Great Flood of Genesis is also a promise that God is aware of and ultimately in control of the climate, even when it changes in catastrophic ways.  

Then the Lord said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.

²²          “While the earth remains,

Seedtime and harvest,

Cold and heat,

Winter and summer,

And day and night

Shall not cease.” (Genesis 8:21-22)

God warns us to prepare for the changes that are coming, and He promised to protect us from the worse of climate change.    Neither fact cancels out the other.  

To treat the Genesis Flood as a fiction with no relevance to us now is to despise on of the earliest promises of grace and to miss one of the greatest  command for stewardship of the planet.

Climatologists warn that our time has already passed the tipping point at which rapid climate change is inevitable.  The rain is coming.  God won’t let us all perish, but we all still need to prepare.  

In Noah’s time, a lot of people died because they treated the Flood as just a story made up by some guy called Noah.  In our time, if we accept the truth of the story, it doesn’t have to be quite so bad.

Does that make sense?

---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).

Subscribe to my personal blog  www.andersontgraves.blogspot.com .

Email atgravestwo2@aol.com

Friend me at www.facebook.com/rev.a.t.graves

Follow me on twitter @AndersonTGraves  #Awordtothewise 

You can help support this ministry with a donation to Miles Chapel CME Church.

You can help support Rev. Graves’ work by visiting his personal blog and clicking the DONATE button on the right-hand sidebar.

Support by check or money order may be mailed to 

Miles Chapel CME Church

P O Box 132

Fairfield, Al 35064

THE GREAT FLOOD: DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?

 Blogging Genesis.  Chapters 7 & 8

⁴ For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made.” (Genesis 7:4)

The Bible says that a long time ago, God made it rain so much that every man, woman, child, bird, and land-based animal who wasn’t inside Noah’s ark drowned.

Does that make sense?

There are over 7 billon people on this people.  How could one rain storm, even one that lasted almost a month and a half,  drown everybody? Wait. In Noah’s time, humans weren’t a global population.  We were a tiny emerging species, just a few generations old.  The descendants of Adam and Eve were only a few thousand people all concentrated in a small geographical area near Eden and Nod, the city Cain founded.    

The 1931 floods of the Yellow River in China killed at least 145,000 people.  Some estimates put the death toll between 3.7 million and 4 million.  A single series of localized flooding could kill millions of people.  In Noah’s time there were only thousands, maybe tens of thousands.

Does that make sense?

The Bible says that the waters rose so high that the mountains were covered  (Genesis 7:20).  But come on. Mt. Everest, the tallest mountain in the world (above sea level) is 60 million years old and 5 ½ miles high.  That’s 5 ½ miles of water  above normal sea level.  Seriously?

Does that make sense?

Noah and his children passed down the story of the Great Flood.  They described what they saw through stories and song, according to the great human oral tradition.  When Moses compiled Genesis into a single book he wrote what Noah and his family had seen.  From the deck of the Ark, they saw the rain fall.  They saw the waters rise and stretch to every horizon.  They saw trees and hills and mountains disappear so far below the waters that the ark could drift for year without running aground. Nothing beyond the ark moved except fish and water.  From the honest perspective of Noah, The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered. And all flesh died that moved on the earth. (Genesis 7:20, 21). 

Fifteen cubits is something like 7 ½ yards or about two stories.  Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the 2016 flooding of the Mississippi River both provided images of people standing in water waving for helicopters to rescue them from the tippy top of the roof of two and three story homes.

Does that make sense?

Oh, and it didn’t just rain.  Genesis 7:11 says that the along with rain so heavy that is seemed that the bottom had dropped out of the sky (the Bible more poetic says that and the windows of heaven were opened) --- along with that ---  on that day all the fountains (foundations) of the great deep were broken up.  Noah and, thousands of years later, Moses could not have known that the solid land on which they lived was actually a series of continent-sized island floating on an ocean of molten rock.  Nobody knew that until 1912 when Alfred Wegener published his theories on continental drift.  It’s not surprising that people thought Noah and Moses were making stuff up.  For 50 years, “modern” scientists that that the whole idea of continents resting on foundations that periodically shift and break apart were ridiculous. 

When the Great Flood started, rain fell, underground springs and geysers erupted, and the massive supercontinent (like Pangea) broke apart causing earthquakes, tidal waves, and volcanic eruptions.  Any poor souls not already sealed inside a giant boat under God’s personal protection were doomed.

Does that make sense?

Massive rains.  Prolonged, catastrophic flooding.  Earthquakes.  Tsunamis.  We have a term for all of that.  We call it “climate change.”  

Maybe the Earth’s magnetic poles reversed.  Maybe a natural cycle of temperature shift reached critical levels.  Something happened that altered the geographical face of the world forever.  Whatever it was so bad that every human who wasn’t prepared, died.

A 2012 NPR article on ancient human populations states, “once in our history, the world-wide population of human beings skidded so sharply we were down to roughly a thousand reproductive adults. One study says we hit as low as 40 . . . "breeding pairs" (children not included).”

The Bible says that the actual number was 8. 

So Noah went out [of the ark], and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. (Genesis 8:18)

Does that make some sense now?

Noah and the Flood is a Bible story, but it’s not JUST a story.  It’s a collection of reasonable, logical truths warning us of the dread consequences of ignoring the weather. 

The Great Flood of Genesis is also a promise that God is aware of and ultimately in control of the climate, even when it changes in catastrophic ways. 

Then the Lord said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.

²²          “While the earth remains,

Seedtime and harvest,

Cold and heat,

Winter and summer,

And day and night

Shall not cease.” (Genesis 8:21-22)

God warns us to prepare for the changes that are coming, and He promised to protect us from the worse of climate change.    Neither fact cancels out the other. 

To treat the Genesis Flood as a fiction with no relevance to us now is to despise on of the earliest promises of grace and to miss one of the greatest  command for stewardship of the planet.

Climatologists warn that our time has already passed the tipping point at which rapid climate change is inevitable.  The rain is coming.  God won’t let us all perish, but we all still need to prepare. 

In Noah’s time, a lot of people died because they treated the Flood as just a story made up by some guy called Noah.  In our time, if we accept the truth of the story, it doesn’t have to be quite so bad.

Does that make sense?

---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).

Subscribe to my personal blog  www.andersontgraves.blogspot.com .

Email atgravestwo2@aol.com

Friend me at www.facebook.com/rev.a.t.graves

Follow me on twitter @AndersonTGraves  #Awordtothewise 

You can help support this ministry with a donation to Miles Chapel CME Church.

You can help support Rev. Graves’ work by visiting his personal blog and clicking the DONATE button on the right-hand sidebar.

Support by check or money order may be mailed to 

Miles Chapel CME Church

P O Box 132

Fairfield, Al 35064

UGLY PEOPLE

⁵ Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. ⁶ And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. ⁷ So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” ⁸ But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. (Genesis 6:5-8)

We don’t exist just to exist.

God created humanity with and for a purpose.  He made us  

1) to reflect the image of God (imago dei)

2) to be productive (fruitfulness) consistent with the Divine nature, and

3) to express both the Image and productivity through community.

In Genesis 6, with probably only a few thousand homo sapiens on the entire planet, all clustered together somewhere on the continental plates of Africa and the Middle East, the human species moved exactly away from our purpose.

They turned against the imago dei.  The people in Noah's time tried to alter their physical image by marrying and mating with “the sons of God”  (Genesis 6:4). 

They pursued fruit-less activities. Our ancient ancestors used their magnificent brains to think up knew and exponentially worse ways to disobey their Creator.

They corrupted community.  Few though they were, they hurt each other.  Noah's world was filled with murder and violence.  Nobody was his brother’s keeper. Every human being in the Pre-Flood era was a danger to himself and to others. 

Humanity had become so exactly the opposite of what God created them to be that letting them fill the planet would have been completely counter-productive.

So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, . . . for I am sorry that I have made them.”

God said, “I’m sorry I even made you.”

Dang!  That’s harsh. But it was totally justified.

The amazing thing isn’t that God decided to literally wash the Earth clean of human influence, but that He decided not to wash the Earth completely clean of human influence.

God preserved the human species by saving Noah and his immediate family.

Noah was “perfect in his generations” (Genesis 6:9).  That doesn’t mean that he was absolutely perfect.  Later on the dude gets sloppy, naked drunk. (Genesis 9:21 ).  “Perfect [sic] in his generation” means that Noah was the best his culture could produce.

(By the way, the next time you turn up your nose at someone else’s dysfunctional family, remember that we’re ALL descended from a guy who got sloppy, naked, passing-out drunk and then cursed out his grandson because the child’s dad laughed about it. That’s Genesis 9:20-24.)

Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

This Noah dude was the best pre-Flood humanity had to offer, but this is what GRACE does.  Grace is God working with the best we have when even our best is pretty terrible.

Anybody with an active newsfeed can see how generally ugly and imaginatively cruel we modern, advanced humans are.  Every cultural and political demographic accuses the others of being worse, but all of us are pretty frickin’ terrible.  I mean, do you re-read the stuff you post about THEM?

We prefer lies tailored to our digital profiles to the truth.  (Matthew 24:11-11)

We complain about injustice, and we applaud injustice when it works to our advantage.  (Matthew 24:12a)

 

Christians who preach about love spew liberal and conservative hatred. (Matthew 24:12b)

We exploit each other and feel entitled to do so.

We dismantle and desecrate every kind of human community.  

We are moving exponentially faster and farther away from our purpose.

The Great Flood of Genesis 6 was the result of God being just dog tired of people being ugly to one another.  Look how ugly we've become.

Oh, yes. God is full of grace.  He always has been.  He was in Noah's day, too.

But even God gets tired of ugly.

 ---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).

Subscribe to my personal blog  www.andersontgraves.blogspot.com .

Email atgravestwo2@aol.com

Friend me at www.facebook.com/rev.a.t.graves

Follow me on twitter @AndersonTGraves  #Awordtothewise 

You can help support this ministry with a donation to Miles Chapel CME Church.

You can help support Rev. Graves’ work by visiting his personal blog and clicking the DONATE button on the right-hand sidebar.

Support by check or money order may be mailed to 

Miles Chapel CME Church

P O Box 132

Fairfield, Al 35064