The Old Black Church

 Church Tasha Cobbs Leonard and her husband, music producer, Kenneth Leonard, Jr. are celebrating their one-year church anniversary.  It’s Our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY‼️ Join is for an incredible time of worship LIVE NOW! Posted by Tasha Cobbs Leonard on  Sunday, April 11, 2021

Church THEM (streaming on Amazon Prime starting Friday, April 9) is a limited anthology series that explores terror in America. Set in the 1950s, it centers on a Black family that moves from North Carolina to an all-white Los Angeles neighborhood during “The Great Migration.” The family’s new dream home becomes ground zero where evil forces – both next-door and otherworldly – threaten to taunt, ravage and destroy them. For me, I fail to see black people's trauma as being used as entertainment.  Anyhow some are upset and saying that Hollywood using black people's trauma as entertainment, but, my question is what do folks want? I binged watched it and finished watching the last couple of episodes today. I understand it. It had a lot of symbolism and truths in it. Life for blacks in this country has been a horror story from day one. Some people say it's black trauma but the truth of the matter is our people lived these uncomfortable, ugly truths.  We simply can not ignore it j

Church Lecrae said that he forgets how toxic Facebook can be. He made a post congratulating a 22-year-old girl who wrote a song to articulate the Goodness of God...then Michelle Obama who is a leader and has access to millions exposes the world to the song, then his hateful fans on his Facebook page went in on the artist and our forever first lady. The artist Wande whose signed to Reach Record has a very interesting testimony. She was born in Nigeria as Mutiat Yewande Isola. Born to a Muslim father and a Christian mother, this made for an interesting dynamic. In fact, her entire family was Muslim. Her mother was not because she attended a Christian boarding school in her village and got saved. This school was the only route to go if you wanted to make it out of that village and move on. In reality, it was also her only way out to find Christ too. Lecrae continue sharing great news, don't let those trump supporters steal your peace.  Love your work and how God is using you to advanc

Church white people playing the victim is absolutely hilarious to me. Clearly evidence of paranoid delusion! "assault on America"?? "Islamists and 'radical left' united"?? Show me the evidence. None of those groups are working to overthrow the country. None of those groups led an insurrection on our Capitol. And there is no evidence of any organization, let alone coordination between Muslims and "radical left."  So making police officers do their jobs without the perks of beating the crap out of black people and/or killing them is an assault on them. How if they don't want to do their job right maybe they should find another career path, ain't no one forcing police officers to police. This article is a piece of trash published by a publication that calls itself Christian. I'm saying it again the Christian post's whole purpose is to push a right-wing agenda.  It's nothing Christian about that. If this is true, who do they wa

 Church a book written by Faculty member Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes an Associate Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at Mercer University's McAfee School of Theology, is causing a slight stir online. The book 'A Rhythm of Prayer' a Collection of Meditations for Renewal containing the prayer by the black female author is calling on God to "help me hate white people." The book was edited by Sarah Bessey and published in February and is available at major sellers such as Target, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.  The passage in the book by Chanequa Walker-Barnes, "Prayer of a Weary Black Woman," seeks spiritual guidance to stop "caring" about white people who inevitably perpetuate racism. "Dear God, Please help me to hate white people," Walker-Barnes writes. "Or at least to want to hate them. At least, I want to stop caring about them, individually and collectively. I want to stop caring about their misguided, racist souls, to

Church my heart goes out to Earl Simmons family and friends to be comforted and may his untimely departure cause others to “seek the LORD THE highest while He may be found....” so that He may draw near to them”. Rapper DMX has died at the age of 50 after suffering a heart attack one week ago.  As a child growing up, DMX and his two older sisters would attend the local Kingdom Hall with their mother. His mother chose the Jehovah’s witness faith over other denominations because she felt it provided good structure for kids. DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and raised in Yonkers, New York. DMX, to the average person who only knows him by his music, is not usually associated with religion or spirituality (except of course for the fact that he names one song on all of his albums, “Prayer”). But this best-selling hardcore rapper is actually quite religious.  It all started when he went to prison as a result of drug charges. There, DMX found Jesus–or fo

Church it's now a known and proven fact that we the American people would not have had as many dead loved ones to die from the pandemic if the idiot who was in the White House at the time of the pandemic would have done his job. Anyhow those who have lost a family member to the devastating grips of COVID-19 will soon be able to apply for help with funeral costs, the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced. FEMA will begin accepting applications Monday for its COVID-19 Funeral Assistance Program. Reimbursement of up to $9,000 per funeral will be available for families who can prove their loved one died from COVID-19 and incurred subsequent funeral expenses after Jan. 20, 2020, regardless of income. Applicants will be allowed to apply for more than one deceased family member. So while FEMA is limiting the financial assistance to $9,000 per funeral service, they will reimburse up to $35,500 to cover the funerals of multiple people in the same family. FEMA will begin accept

Church according to a press release , the self-appointed bishop of a Pennsylvania ministry has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for forcing church members to work certain jobs, pocketing their earnings, and directing them to defraud various hotels.   A jury in 2019 convicted TRACIE DICKEY, also known as “Tracie Williams,” 57, of Pittsburgh, Pa., on wire fraud and labor trafficking charges. Dickey was a self-appointed bishop of Deliverance Tabernacle Ministries, an organization she founded that proclaimed to offer faith-based services in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Florida. She also purported to operate a travel agency known as World Ambassador Travel.   Evidence at trial revealed that Dickey recruited young women to become members of the ministry, and directed them to work multiple jobs, including as desk clerks at hotels. She instructed the members on how to have the hotels pay reservation-commission fees to Dickey’s travel agency, even though her agency never ac

Church this man should’ve been removed from the pulpit when he allegedly beat his wife and cheated on her with the church secretary. These Trump supporters are crazy.  Pastor Greg Locke of Global Vision Bible Church in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, isn’t afraid to say what’s on his mind, and his church’s Easter service on Sunday was no exception. In fact, Locke felt like it was a perfect opportunity to tell the “sheep” in the congregation to “take them stupid masks off!!!” Preaching a sermon titled “Signs of a Lukewarm Heart” to a packed crowd outside under a large tent, Pastor Locke spoke on Isaiah 53. He said the people the prophet was talking to were like our culture of chaos and confusion today. The Tennessean pastor said, “The whole world can reject Jesus. The world can say that we have lost our mind and that we have gone stark raving crazy for being in a tent with this many people with no masks and no social distancing and having our church open and preaching the Bible.” I wear my ma

Church Beth Moore waking to see the hypocrisy and lies of what she believed and taught beforehand is commendable. In stating her new truth she has probably lost millions of followers and was willing to do so. That takes incredible strength. Beth Moore is realizing the damage and error caused by complementarian theology, which has fed into not only rampant sexual abuse and domestic violence but militarism as well. Look at what took place with the rebellion, revolt, uprising, insurrection at the Capitol on January 6.  Beth is 100% right. Complementarian theology isn’t a doctrine that defines one as orthodox or not, it is a matter of interpretation, not all Christians believe in the idea that there are certain roles for men and certain roles for women. That is the belief of a couple of different denominations but not indicative of the whole who have misinterpreted that 1 Timothy scripture both in the context of Paul’s writings and within the Bible itself. A large chunk of Christian theolo

Church this is why God is allowing what we see taking place in our nation to play out.  We can wag our fingers, and shake our fist at those who sleep in every Sunday because it makes us feel self-righteous. But, this is a true shame, that on any given period the church doors may be open, there are far too many crazy men in the pulpit and leadership.  Shaun Nepstad, the pastor of People Church based out of Chicago and has campuses all over the world, preached a sermon on Easter Sunday where he had bags of garbage hauled into the church and preached out of a dumpster on stage. Foolishness: Pastor Hauls Bags of Garbage into Church and Preaches from Dumpster via @reformationclt https://t.co/NXJbkXJpg3 — ReformationCharlotte.org (@ReformationCLT) April 6, 2021

Church the Christian community is in shock by the news of the transition from life of Dr. Kimberly Credit. People who knew her said she did life her way, she ascended to the top of her profession but never lost the common touch of love. Her mission was to pour into others and open doors for others, especially women, which she did boldly.  Dr. Kimberly stood in her pulpit for the last time Sunday morning. She shared she was short of breath. She shared she had recently had surgery and it was successful. She said she weaned herself off of the pain medication 4 days ago. Pastor Mark Moore, Jr. preached for her on Sunday as it was her first Sunday back in her building. Me, Myself, and I are praying for the awesome woman of God, family, friends, and church family.  "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints." ~ Psalm 116:15 With great sadness, we, the Mount Zion... Posted by Mount Zion Baptist Church of Boonton Township on  Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Church The Detroit News is reporting that Orlandus Dunning of Detroit is suing the singer, rapper Lizzo for damages in the amount of $750,000 he claims are related to the emotional distress he suffered as a result of the song’s release. Named in the lawsuit are Lizzo – whose legal name is Melissa Jefferson; Atlantic Records; Warner Music Group, which owns the subsidiary Atlantic Records; and Nice Life Recording Company.   Dunning, an elder of Church of God in Christ, claims “Coconut Oil” contains certain portions of a hymn he sang at a mutual relative’s funeral and are used at the beginning and the end of the song. In the claim, he asserts there was an expectation of privacy that was violated when Lizzo recorded snippets that were then used in her song.  “When Plaintiff sang the devotional, it was at a private funeral and done for the specific purpose of uplifting his family and friends during their time of bereavement. (Dunning) had a reasonable expectation of privacy and that his voi

Church I'm HIGHLY disappointed ( I still support the man of God) in Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock for his now-deleted tweet on Resurrection Sunday. The now-deleted tweet has landed the man of God in hot water. He released the tweet then deleted it when Christians started calling him out for it.     It is impossible for anyone to work to earn salvation, “because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight” (Romans 3:20a). “For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9). Salvation is only by God’s grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. Works contribute nothing to salvation (Ephesians 1:4-6; 2:4-5, 8-9; Romans 3:20, 24; Hebrews 12:2). The message of Easter is the message of the Cross and the Resurrection, a message which says in no uncertain terms, that... Posted by Damon Richardson on  Sunday, April 4, 2021

 Church a prayer vigil is planned today outside the suburban New York hospital where rapper DMX remains on life support following a heart attack.  “On Friday night, April 2nd, 2021, our brother, son, father, and colleague DMX, birth name of Earl Simmons, was admitted to White Plains (NY) Hospital, facing serious health issues,” the family said through a publicist. “We ask that you please keep Earl/DMX and us in your thoughts, wishes, and prayers as well as respect our privacy as we face these challenges.” DMX is in one of my favorite Steven Segal Movies "Exit Wounds" & one of my favorite Jet Li Movies "Romeo Must Die" so I send nothing but well wishes to DMX on a speedy recovery. Glad it was a Heart Attack and not an overdose that was first reported in the media. Got to hate the initial reports before the full story is released on incidents like this. Thank God this is not drug-related. 🙏PRAYERS FOR DMX🙏 A prayer vigil was planned for Monday outside the su

Church Relentless Church Pastors John and Aventer Gray made an announcement today that they were moving to the ATL. And, if you are anyone you know who wants to be a part of something life-changing, get connected to Relentless Atlanta. You can join them for their first interest meeting on April 14 with him and his beautiful wife Aventer for the planning stages.  Come see what God is doing through Relentless in the city of Atlanta.  Now here is my question what about the 151 staff members who presently work for them? What about the $1,250,000 PPP loan money they received that they don't have to pay back, because of those staff members?  

Church, Activist Shaun King the founder of the North Star, has a viral Facebook post that has garnered many views. King said his whole life has been inspired by the Jesus he sees in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. ⁣ ⁣The white man’s Jesus has always been a farce designed to give them power and take it away from everyone else. ⁣I agree, if Jesus had come to Earth today instead of 2000 years ago he'd be for universal healthcare and against those who are opposed to it like Mitch McConnell. He'd be against police brutality, he'd be for Black lives Matter, not the Proud Boys. He'd be against separating families. He'd be against discrimination. He'd be for raising taxes on the rich not cutting them. And all these pastors living in mansions and flying in private jets would get a rude awakening because he'd sure be opposed to their lifestyles. I do not know whose teachings it is that today's evangelicals follow, but it certainly is NOT the Jesus of the Bible most

Church happy Resurrection Sunday, to all my dear brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ Amen!!!

 Church some COGIC online members are becoming more and more vocal in their disappointment of the Sheards taking over the helm of the Church Of God In Christ organization. There is online mumbling that this will not end well for the denomination nor for the Sheards. Today's mumbling is because Karen is featured on the cover of the International Sunday School summer quarter. The claim is that no other presiding bishop wife has ever been given the featured cover, so why should she?   Let me say this from what I've seen from the position of an experienced blogger for over 10 years. Karen is truly a humble person. She's the epitome of caliber, in my opinion. I said all that to say this, I was on YouTube one day, and a video of Kierra Sheard the daughter of Presiding Bishop Sheard, and Lady Sheard giving her mom a virtual birthday popped up. As I watched, celebrity after celebrity joined the virtual birthday party just to tell Karen how amazing she is and to say happy birthday.