Peace and Blessings,

In this season of Lent—40 days of prayer and fasting leading up to Resurrection Sunday—there is a song that addresses to the significance of the season, as it speaks to the hearts of every Christian. I believe that you will know the following lyrics:

Alas! And did my Savior Bleed? And did my Sovereign die? Would He devote that sacred head for such a one as I? Was it for crimes that I have done He groaned up on the tree? Amazing pity, grace unknown! And love beyond degree! Well might the sun in darkness hide and shut HIs glories in. When Christ, the mighty Maker died for man the creature’s sin. But drops of grief can ne’er repay the debt of love I owe. Here, Lord, I give myself away—Tis all that I can do!

At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light, and the burden of my heart rolled away. It was there by faith I received my sight, and now I am happy all the day!

How blessed we are that God so loved the world, that God sacrificed and saved us from every sin through the blood of Jesus the Christ. To suffer for the sins of another is a profound and humbling thought, but that’s what Jesus did, and we should never forget it. So, this Sunday, I begin a three-part series entitled “The Journey to the Cross.” This Sunday’s message is coming from Luke 22:14-23. 

Peace, 

Bishop Dr. Mark W. Thompson

Senior Pastor

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Here is the next installment of reading materials that are both diverse and instructive in the ways of the Spirit. These books are what can be labeled “Extra-Biblical,” in that they share the Social Gospel of Jesus Christ in various ways. Enjoy.

1. Separation of Church and Hate by John Fugelsang
2. Carry On by John Lewis
3. The Reason for God by Timothy Keller
4. A Hidden Wholeness by Parker Palmer
5. The Centering Moment by Howard Thurman
6. Christless Christianity by Michael Horton
7. The Ways of the Spirit by Evelyn Underhill
8. Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer
9. The Mind of Jesus by William Barclay
10. The Spiritual Man by Watchman Nee
11. The Black Church by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
12. White Poverty by Bishop William J Barber II
13. The Battle for the Black Mind by Karida L. Brown
14. Black AF History by Michael Harriot
15. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibrant

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