RECONCILIATION - Day 1

The following are from the blog: Godspolitics, a ministry of Sojourners. Both provide a good starting point from which to view the events of the next week, and to communicate the goals of my posts for the week.

The first, is a prayer for our nation and our new President by Shaine Clairborn:

A Prayer for a New President and a New America
by Shane Claiborne 11-07-2008

God of Abraham, Miriam, Hannah, Rizpah, and David…
God of Elijah, Amos, Ruth, Isaiah, Deborah…
God of Mary, John the Baptizer, Peter, Paul, Philemon and Onesimus…
God of Anthony, Ambrose, Dirk Willems, Teresa of Avila, and Francis of Assisi,
God of Dorothy Day, Martin Luther…

. . .

Give us imagination…
that we might not conform to the patterns of this world.
that we might shatter indifference and interrupt injustice with grace.
that we might choose the cross over the sword.
that we might be as shrewd as serpents and as innocent as doves.
that we might consider the lillies and sparrows as they shame Wall Street’s splendor.
that we might choose the dream of God over the dreams of nations.
that we might cling to the God that so loved the world, not just America.
that we might allow our Jesus to change America rather than America to change our Jesus.

In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen.

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And second, below are several links to PDF files of sermons delivered by Pastor Bill Hybels in challenging and leading his church body towards racial reconciliation and a more compassionate ministry mindset:

Bridging the Racial Divide – 2001
Life’s Missing Ingredients: Freedom – 2003
The God Who Hates Injustice – 2005
Word on the Street - 2006
Can We Get Along? - 2008

Blessings
3 John 8
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