Mark 4:35-41 This past week at our presbytery gathering, we were challenged by Rev. J. Herbert Nelson, director of our Office of Public Witness in Washington DC. You may remember him– he is good friends with James Parks and preached here at Hunting Ridge one Sunday when I was away. He praised our Presbytery for being willing to confront the issues of racism, classism and poverty, and told us the rest of the denomination was watching us. Because of the unrest last year and the ongoing anxiety about the upcoming trials of the police officers involved in the arrest of Freddie Gray, Nelson noted that if Presbyterians don’t move forward in being faithful to God’s plan for justice, security, community and healing for all of God’s people, God will certainly move on and use someone else to accomplish the plan! He told us this was our time, a unique moment in history. And then he said: “Don’t blow it.”
Don’t blow it. I took that to mean…. Continue reading “Sermon: Hunting for the Kingdom…on the other side?”
