FREE AT LAST (2 OF 10)
by Will McGee
Scripture: Galatians 1:11, Galatians 2:10
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Free At Last (2 of 10)
Series: No Other Gospel
Will McGee
Galatians 1:11-2:10
9/11 PRAYER
Today, as we all are aware... is the 15th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the two towers in Lower Manhattan.
- I don't remember what I said last year... On this Sunday... But as I racked my brain all week trying to think of something to say this morning... I keep coming up with a blank.
So instead of trying to say something inspirational or pastoral. I want us to simply take a moment of silence. To pray and reflect. To pray for comfort for those who are grieving today. To honor the many heroes that gave themselves to save others
PRAY
INTRODUCTION
On August 28, 1963. The greatest nonviolent protest in the history of the United States took place on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood behind a podium in front of over 250,000 people at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
In his speech, he said many memorable things. Perhaps most the most riveting moment were his final words.
- Dr. King was a Baptist preacher, so there was a melody to his conclusion. A crescendo.
He said. ''Let Freedom Ring!''
And when this happens, and when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
Dr. King's speech was a speech about freedom.
- But as Dr. King made that speech. He was technically a free man. Black Americans were technically free in 1963.
- 100 years earlier, President Lincoln issued an Executive Order called ''The Emancipation Proclamation'' freed slaves in the Southern states during the Civil War. After the Civil War, the Northern States abo ...
Series: No Other Gospel
Will McGee
Galatians 1:11-2:10
9/11 PRAYER
Today, as we all are aware... is the 15th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the two towers in Lower Manhattan.
- I don't remember what I said last year... On this Sunday... But as I racked my brain all week trying to think of something to say this morning... I keep coming up with a blank.
So instead of trying to say something inspirational or pastoral. I want us to simply take a moment of silence. To pray and reflect. To pray for comfort for those who are grieving today. To honor the many heroes that gave themselves to save others
PRAY
INTRODUCTION
On August 28, 1963. The greatest nonviolent protest in the history of the United States took place on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood behind a podium in front of over 250,000 people at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
In his speech, he said many memorable things. Perhaps most the most riveting moment were his final words.
- Dr. King was a Baptist preacher, so there was a melody to his conclusion. A crescendo.
He said. ''Let Freedom Ring!''
And when this happens, and when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
Dr. King's speech was a speech about freedom.
- But as Dr. King made that speech. He was technically a free man. Black Americans were technically free in 1963.
- 100 years earlier, President Lincoln issued an Executive Order called ''The Emancipation Proclamation'' freed slaves in the Southern states during the Civil War. After the Civil War, the Northern States abo ...
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