Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Thursday, February 10, 2022
Monday, February 10, 2020
LET'S TALK ABOUT LOVE (audio)
By God’s providence our series through the book of Romans came to this passage just in time for Valentine’s Day. From Romans 13: 8-10, the title of the message is: LET’S TALK ABOUT LOVE.
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---Anderson T. Graves II is a pastor, writer, community organizer, and consultant
Rev. Anderson T. Graves II is pastor of Bailey Tabernacle CME Church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He writes the popular blog: A Word to the Wise at www.andersontgraves.blogspot.com
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Monday, January 13, 2020
THE POWER OF CHARACTER TRANSFORMATION (audio)
From the closing verses of Romans chapter
12, the message is: THE POWER OF
CHARACTER TRANSFORMATION.
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---Anderson T. Graves II is a pastor, writer, community organizer, and consultant
Rev. Anderson T. Graves II is pastor of Bailey Tabernacle CME Church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He writes the popular blog: A Word to the Wise at www.andersontgraves.blogspot.com
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35401
Sunday, November 17, 2019
THE SACRIFICE GOD WANTS (audio)
Delivered for our annual Sacrificial
Feast Sunday, the message is titled: THE
SACRIFICE GOD WANTS.
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 pastor, writer, community organizer, and
consultant
Rev.
Anderson T. Graves II is pastor of Bailey Tabernacle CME Church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
He writes the popular blog: A Word to the Wise at
www.andersontgraves.blogspot.com
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Sunday, September 15, 2019
HOPE THAT FLOATS (audio)
From Romans 8: 24-25, a message about: HOPE
THAT FLOATS.
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---Anderson
T. Graves II is a pastor, writer, community organizer, and
consultant
Rev.
Anderson T. Graves II is pastor of Bailey Tabernacle CME Church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
He writes the popular blog: A Word to the Wise at
www.andersontgraves.blogspot.com
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Sunday, November 25, 2018
THIS IS US (sermon audio)
A timely message about when current
events become too familiar. The title of
this sermon is: THIS IS US.
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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 Bailey
Tabernacle CME Church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He writes the
popular blog: A Word to the Wise at www.andersontgraves.blogspot.com
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me at www.facebook.com/rev.a.t.graves
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me on twitter @AndersonTGraves
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Monday, October 8, 2018
GET YOUR HEAD RIGHT; GET YOUR HEART RIGHT; GET YOUR FAMILY RIGHT (audio)
The 3rd message in the sermon
series: HEALING WOUNDED FAMILIES. The title of this message is: GET YOUR HEAD RIGHT; GET YOUR HEART RIGHT;
GET YOUR FAMILY RIGHT.
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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 Bailey
Tabernacle CME Church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He writes the
popular blog: A Word to the Wise at
www.andersontgraves.blogspot.com
Friend
me at www.facebook.com/rev.a.t.graves
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me on twitter @AndersonTGraves
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Monday, October 1, 2018
SELF-CARE FOR FAMILIES (audio)
The introductory message in the sermon
series: HEALING WOUNDED FAMILIES. The title of this message is: SELF-CARE FOR FAMILIES
Listen well and leave a comment.
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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 Bailey
Tabernacle CME Church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He writes the
popular blog: A Word to the Wise at
www.andersontgraves.blogspot.com
Friend
me at www.facebook.com/rev.a.t.graves
Follow
me on twitter @AndersonTGraves
Click here to support this ministry with a donation.
Or go to andersontgraves.blogspot.com and
click on the DONATE button on the right-hand sidebar.
Visit
the ministry’s website at baileytabernaclecme.org
Support
by check or money order may be mailed to
Bailey
Tabernacle CME Church
P.O. Box 3145
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35403
Monday, September 24, 2018
INVESTING IN THE BOSS'S KID
I wrote this post 4 years ago, on the eve of my daughter's 16th birthday. Tomorrow she turns 20, and what I said then is even more true today.
Tomorrow
my daughter turns 16. For the last
couple of hours I’ve been looking at her picture and feeling all wet in the
eyes.
Which
made me think about Eliezer and Abraham.
Genesis
15: 1-3 says that Eliezer was the chief servant in Abraham’s household.
The household of a Biblical patriarch was a lot like a family owned corporation. For example, in the house of Abraham, the patriarch had more servants (employees) than actual relatives by blood or marriage.
Yet
the entire household depended on one another. Together they weathered storms and
famine. Together, they fought marauders
and rival tribes. Together they would either prosper or die in
the Canaanite frontier. And when God
gave Abraham the sign of circumcision in Genesis 17, EVERY male in Abraham’s
house became a Jew---- the hard way.
But
you could say that was all just good business.
You
have to be nice to the boss. You have to
work together. If the company
(household) fails then everybody’s out of a job. In Old Testament days, being “out of a job”
meant death or enslavement, so doing a good job was simple self-interest. Genuine love wasn’t necessarily part of the
job description.
But
sometimes it was.
Before
Abraham and Sarah had children, Eliezer was the designated heir of Abraham’s
entire fortune. So when Isaac, the promised
son, came along Eliezer had no objective economic reason to love the boy.
But
he did.
We
know that Eliezer CARED ABOUT Isaac because Eliezer INVESTED IN Isaac.
In
Genesis 25, Abraham sent his chief servant to research and negotiate a
marriage-merger for his son. This was a
lot of trouble. There was no match.com
to sign onto, no Instagram full of selfies to peruse, not even a postal system
to send letters asking, “Hey, do you know any nice single women around Isaac’s
age?”
Eliezer
had to take ten camels and basically wander around the sparsely populated
Canaanite and Mesopotamian wilderness looking for “the one.”
And if the woman is not willing to
follow you, then you will be released from this oath; only do not take my son
back there.”…Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed,
for all his master’s goods were in his hand. (Genesis 25: 8, 10)
At
this point Abraham was old and Eliezer had power of attorney over the whole
family business. All he had to do was “not
find” the right woman or ship Isaac off to Syria and he could have taken over
the family.
But
he didn’t.
Instead,
he risked his time, the peril of his own safety (wandering around the dessert
with a caravan of provisions at his age), and his personal self-interest; and
invested it all in his boss’s child.
Then he said, “O Lord God of my master
Abraham, please give me success this day, and show kindness to my master
Abraham. (Genesis 25: 12)
In
my career as an educator and pastor I’ve worked with, for, and over a lot of
people. Especially on faculties when I
was a department chair or administrator (boss), teachers had an economic
self-interest in being nice to me because I performed their evaluations and
managed their personnel files.
They
didn’t have to really love me. They didn’t
have to really love my house, my family.
But
they have.
My
daughter turns 16 tomorrow. When I posted the announcement online and looked at
the range of people who commented and liked I realized how expansive my
household has really been.
Over
the last 20 years, teachers, counselor, pastors, co-workers, colleagues, church members, and employees have invested in their
time, their gifts, their favor, and their love in me, my wife, and our children.
They
have gone far, far out of their way to protect my children when I could not be
there to protect them.
They
have prayed for my family. They have
looked out for my wife. They have sought
our good when our good wouldn’t do them any good. They helped me and mine when undermining me would
have been easy and profitable.
I
know what you did.
You
loved my house when you didn’t have to.
Thank
you.
Thank
you all.
---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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Saturday, September 8, 2018
MAKING A DIFFERENCE: A Lesson from the 4th Plague
Blogging Exodus 8:20 - 32
20 And the Lord said to Moses, “Rise early in the
morning and stand before Pharaoh as he comes out to the water. Then say to him,
‘Thus says the Lord: “Let My people go, that they may serve Me.
21 Or else, if you will not let My people go, behold, I
will send swarms of flies on you and your servants, on your people and into
your houses. The houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and
also the ground on which they stand.
22 And in that
day I will set apart the land of Goshen, in which My people dwell, that no
swarms of flies shall be there, in order that you may know that I am the Lord
in the midst of the land. 23 I will make a difference between My people and your people.
Tomorrow this sign shall be.” ’ ”
24 And the Lord did so.
Thick swarms of flies came into the house of Pharaoh, into his
servants’ houses, and into all the land of Egypt. The land was corrupted
because of the swarms of flies. . .
The first 3 plagues had affected
everyone in Egypt. For a week, neither
the Egyptians nor their Hebrew slaves could find a cup of water blood red and
stinking. The frogs had hopped through the
palaces in Egypt and the slave quarters in Goshen. Lice had chewed on the flesh of slaves,
overseers, masters, and visitors to the country. The wrath of God had fallen on the whole nation
of Egypt in general.
But then God sent word to Pharaoh,
“I will set apart the land of Goshen, in
which My people dwell. . . I will make a difference between My
people and your people.”
When Pharaoh refused again to
grant religious leave to the Hebrew slaves, thick swarms of flies invaded the
homes and lands of ethnic Egyptians. The land was corrupted because of the swarms
of flies. Corrupted in this sense
means “contaminated.” The flies brought disease. The insects were just gross and inconvenience. People died. But not Hebrew people.
The flies didn’t fly in Goshen
because God made a difference between His people and the other people.
When the process of deliverance begins
it feels like a general disaster.
Companies all over are
closing.
Kids in every community have lost
their minds.
Families in every demographic dissolve
in an epidemic of divorce and infidelity.
Every faith and denomination is
tainted with scandal.
Every political persuasion is guilty
of hypocrisy against their stated values.
The poor urban (black and brown)
kids are addicted to crack and weed. Rural
white kids are addicted to meth and weed.
The middle-class and rich kids are addicted to heroin (and weed). Old folks are addicted to opioids, and
everyone else is on sleeping pills and/or antidepressants.
The plagues afflict us all.
They say “Misery loves company,”
but if you’re waiting on God to save your people, shared misery doesn’t
actually make your situation any better.
But then.
Even while things in the country are generally miserable, watch for that moment when God makes a difference for you.
Even while things in the country are generally miserable, watch for that moment when God makes a difference for you.
After the Civil War came
Reconstruction and the Freedmen’s Bureau which made such a difference that the HBCU’s
were founded, African-Americans were elected to Congress, and in 1870, a new,
independent Christian denomination was founded, fully led and administered led
by ex-slaves (the Colored Methodist Episcopal church). God made a difference for His people.
After Vietnam and the Cultural
Revolution of the 1960’s Affirmative Action and the Office for Civil Rights. The
list
of firsts in that period is to long for this blog post, but you see the
pattern, right?
God’s people cry out to Him. He sends them the promise of deliverance, but at first things just get worse. Their enemies double-down on their attacks, and the outpouring of Divine wrath meant to get the nation to repent is a series of general disasters in which God’s people suffer, too. But then, the story shifts and God starts making a difference between His people and everybody else.
God’s people cry out to Him. He sends them the promise of deliverance, but at first things just get worse. Their enemies double-down on their attacks, and the outpouring of Divine wrath meant to get the nation to repent is a series of general disasters in which God’s people suffer, too. But then, the story shifts and God starts making a difference between His people and everybody else.
We call that “a season of favor.”
What is the difference that God is ready to make in, among, for, and through His people? What is the DIFFERENT approach to alleviating poverty that communities of faith can deliver? What is the DIFFERENT approach that Bible-studying people can find to make the legal system a system of actual justice? In the midst of all the disastrous news pouring out of every crevice of the country, what has God put in the church, in YOUR church, that will set apart your response and make a difference between how your people deal with the next crisis?
What is the difference that God is ready to make in, among, for, and through His people? What is the DIFFERENT approach to alleviating poverty that communities of faith can deliver? What is the DIFFERENT approach that Bible-studying people can find to make the legal system a system of actual justice? In the midst of all the disastrous news pouring out of every crevice of the country, what has God put in the church, in YOUR church, that will set apart your response and make a difference between how your people deal with the next crisis?
Think about it. Pray about it. Because as surely as other plagues followed
the flies in Exodus 8, another crisis IS coming after whatever next goes wrong in
America.
Be ready God’s people. Be different.
--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 Bailey Tabernacle CME
Church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He writes the popular blog: A Word
to the Wise at
www.andersontgraves.blogspot.com
Friend me at www.facebook.com/rev.a.t.graves
Follow me on twitter @AndersonTGraves
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35401
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
WHEN HATE OUTWEIGHS LOVE
We say, “If
you’re nice to people, people will be nice to you.”
God says, “No.
Not necessarily.”
It’s like what
the Lord told Moses in Exodus 3:18 – 19: And
you shall say to [Pharaoh], ‘The Lord
God of the Hebrews has met with us; and now, please, let us go three days’
journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.’
But I am sure that the king of Egypt will
not let you go, no, not even by a mighty hand.
God warned Moses
and Aaron that when they approached Pharaoh humbly and respectfully and in an
unthreatening tone very nicely asked him to allow the Hebrew slaves just a few
days off for worship, Pharaoh would NOT give the same respect he was given.
And he
didn’t. Instead, Pharaoh accused Moses
and Aaron of being outside agitators stirring up trouble among his ni--- umm. Among his Hebrews.
Then the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses
and Aaron, why do you take the people from their work? Get back to your labor” (Exodus 5: 4).
As individual
Christians, we identify with Moses, the believer, the humble underdog making a
simple request. We identify the American
church with the children of Israel, God’s people oppressed and persecuted by a
wicked dominant culture.
No. Not necessarily.
What if you, I, we
are Pharaoh?
Here’s how we
can tell: the bad guy in the story is
the one who’s hate outweighs his love.
Let’s run some tests.
Do you justify your hatred like Pharaoh did?
Pharaoh said, “Look, the people of the land
are many now, and you make them rest from their labor!” (Exodus 5: 5)
Pharaoh’s refused
to give the Hebrew slaves time off because there were too many Hebrew workers. Yeah, but would Pharaoh have given them time
off if there had been fewer Hebrew slaves?
No.
And what in the
world did the number of slaves have to do with whether or not enslaving them
was right? Nothing.
It’s like in the
pre-Civil War South when Confederates states said, “We can’t free the
Negroes. There are too many of them.”
It’s like during
World War II when the United States locked up Japanese-Americans in internment
camps because, “There are so many of them, some of them might be spies.” Of course, there were a whole lot more
German-Americans at the time, so why didn’t we lock up German-Americans? (Hint, it’s because they’re White.)
It’s like when
people say we can’t allow Mexicans, or Muslims into the country because there
are too many Mexicans and Muslims.
Those people
don’t really care how many there are.
They’d hate “those people” if there were only six of them on the
planet.
Do you apply blame like Pharaoh?
Pharaoh’s racist
foolishness followed the same game- plan that racist foolishness always follows:
Say the minority
is a threat. Say that oppression is
necessary for national security or to
protect the economy . Keep them
dependent and geographically contained.
Ignore everything God says condemning
your actions. And, when they ask for reasonable
relief, call them lazy.
So the same day Pharaoh commanded the
taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying, “You shall no longer give the people straw to
make brick as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.8 And
you shall lay on them the quota of bricks which they made before. You shall not
reduce it. For they are idle; therefore
they cry out, saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’
9 Let more work be laid on
the men, that they may labor in it, and let them not regard false words” (Exodus
5:6-9).
You enslave these
people to do your work so your people don’t have to do the work, and the slaves
are the lazy ones?
People are
walking thousands of miles through deserts and mountains to enter this country
and WORK. You’re seeking them out to
fill positions Americans won’t take and paying them illegally low wages
Americans won’t accept to labor under
conditions Americans would never endure.
And then you
accuse them of being lazy welfare recipients.
How is the guy who traversed a desert to get a job the lazy one?
If they can’t get a job if they fail a drug test,
and there aren’t enough slots in rehab centers; if they can’t get a job without
a permanent address, and there is no housing for the homeless; if they can’t
get a job if they have EVER been convicted of ANY felony ---- if you’ve
literally made it illegal to hire addicts, the homeless, and the formerly
incarcerated ------ how can you scream at them “Get a job!”?
Is your heart devoid of compassion like Pharaoh?
There were no
plagues after Moses’ and Aaron’s first meeting with Pharaoh. The Lord gave Pharaoh space to take a small
step toward easing his oppression of the Hebrews. That’s GRACE.
Pharaoh chose to
double-down on his hateful rhetoric and policies.
So, the Lord
withdrew grace from Pharaoh. God let
Pharaoh run uninterrupted in the direction of hate and anger and narcissism all
the way to its self-destructive end.
That’s why Scripture says God hardened
his heart.
When you see
people struggling under burdens you can’t even imagine and, without knowing
their story you unilaterally decide, “They’re lazy; I need to make their lives
harder,” that’s hard-hearted.
When people
approach you or me graciously and respectfully, asking for help and we respond
with insults and threats (and it doesn’t matter whether you give them the money
or not), that’s hard-hearted.
That’s some
Pharaoh foolishness.
When we see
suffering in other parts of the country or the world and we say, “Well, if
they’d pulled their pants up, if they hadn’t talked back to the officer, if
they’d been at home instead of at that club, if they hadn’t been living in a
country full of terrorists ----- then they wouldn’t have anything to complain
about” --- that’s hard-hearted.
That’s some
Pharaoh foolishness.
When we hear the
Word of God spoken to us and we open our own Bibles and see point blank that
the Bible says You shall neither mistreat a stranger nor
oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt (Exodus 22:21), but you don’t like those
people so you decide to mistreat them anyway, that’s not patriotism.
That’s some
Pharaohish foolishness.
Pharaoh became
so hardened in his heart, so hostile to God’s offer of grace that he ordered
his people to make life harder on the people they were oppressing ----- and to blame them for it.
Do you, like Pharaoh, hate the others more than you love your own?
A sign of a
Pharaoh hard heart is when you hurt your own people just so you can hurt “those
people.”
Prior to Exodus 5,
the Egyptians had supplied the Hebrew brick-making teams with the straw they
needed to do massuh’s work. To pay them
back for having the audacity to send some liberal Midianite looking shepherd
and his brother to beg for a minor improvement in working conditions, Pharaoh
changed the labor laws. Now the Hebrews
had to get their own straw and still meet their daily brick-making quotas.
The straw had
been supplied by Egyptian farmers, who would have been paid for supplying
straw. The Hebrews couldn’t afford to
buy straw from Egyptian farmers, so Exodus 5: 12 says the slaves collected stubble instead of straw. The stubble
was scraps and tips and pieces leftover from hand cutting the grass into
straw.
The quality of
the bricks used in construction diminished because they were using inferior raw
material, and all the native Egyptian straw providers were out of
business.
Pharaoh degraded
his country’s infrastructure and bankrupted an entire sector of his nation’s
economy ----- cause he didn’t like Jews.
Warlords burn
villages in their own territories because it MIGHT hurt their rivals. Dictators starve their own citizens because
some of them MIGHT supporter their political opponents.
What about us?
America guts the
Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, internet privacy rules, and fair wage
protection for women because ---- liberals. We hurt everybody cause we’re still
mad about that uppity Obama guy.
That’s some
Pharaoh foolishness.
What about you?
Who you mad at?
Which person or
people do you despise for their very existence?
Whom do you hate SO MUCH that everything they say is wrong? That everything is wrong because they said
it?
Are you willing
to sin to hurt them? Do you want to
destroy anybody who even thinks about mitigating their suffering? Do you find joy in the thought of their pain?
Do you think like Pharaoh?
Scripture warns
us: Do
NOT rejoice when your enemy falls, And do NOT let your heart be glad when he
stumbles (Proverbs 24: 17).
The Hebrews were
already enslaved when Moses met with Pharaoh, but those negotiations didn’t
begin with Moses calling down a plague. Technically,
God didn’t plague Egypt for having slaves; He plagued Egypt because Pharaoh
refused to extend grace to those slaves, grace that would have been a path to
freedom.
God plagued
Pharaoh for refusing to let his hard-heart be softened by the Word of God
delivered by Moses and Aaron.
The plagues are coming. The question is, when the plagues come, will we be on the side of the grace-filled Word of God, safe under the Blood?
Or are we Pharaoh?
--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 Bailey
Tabernacle CME Church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He writes the popular
blog: A Word to the Wise at www.andersontgraves.blogspot.com
Friend me at www.facebook.com/rev.a.t.graves
Follow me on twitter @AndersonTGraves
Click
here to support this ministry with a donation. Or go to andersontgraves.blogspot.com and
click on the DONATE button on the right-hand sidebar.
Visit the ministry’s website at baileytabernaclecme.org
Support by check or money order may be mailed to
Bailey Tabernacle CME Church
1117 23rd Avenue
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35401
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35401
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