Sermons on Racism
1 Samuel 24, 26
SERIES: Leadership in Hard Times Vengeance is Mine SCRIPTURE: 1 Samuel 24, 26 SPEAKER: Michael P. Andrus Note to David: This is from a series I did in 1988 in St. Louis. Check to see if you have the tape. Introduction: Revenge has been called life’s most subtle temptation. It’s also one of life’s most frequent temptations. It’s subtle because we are never tempted to take vengeance without provocation, and if we’re provoked it’s easy to justify our response. And it’s frequent because the provocations in life are so numerous. A guy cuts…
Acts 10, 1-11, 18
The Evil of Spiritual Apartheid Introduction: South Africa has been much in the news for the past several years. Lately Congress and the executive branch of our government have been regularly consumed by debate over questions of human rights, sanctions, divestiture, and other such matters as they relate to the government in Pretoria. The social conscience of many in our country has been aroused by the practice of institutional apartheid in South Africa. Apartheid is, of course, a legalized system of racial discrimination which…
Acts 11:19-30
The Crumbling Wall of Partition Introduction: In Ephesians 2:12-14 the Apostle Paul speaks to Gentile believers and urges them to “remember that you were at one time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one,…
James 2:1-13
When Favoritism and Prejudice Come to Church Racism in the church today is not as bad as it used to be. Forty years ago Jan and I were members of a Bible Church in Arlington, Texas, pastored by a graduate of Dallas Seminary, where blacks were unwelcome and the whites in the church made no bones about it. They would literally get up and move if an African American sat down next to them. Needless to say, there weren’t many who visited, and…