ABOUT THIS EPISODE
If a good deed isn't posted online, does it still count? In this sermon, shared Sunday, November 1 at Wheat Ridge Congregational Church, Loren Richmond Jr. shares a message about humility, hope and the promise of another way to live.
Beginning with the basic question, must doing good always mean playing the same power games we're trying to change? Loren draws on Audre Lorde's warning that "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." Then he turns to Jesus' teaching in Matthew that greatness comes through humility and service, and to the self-emptying love of Christ in Philippians 2. Along the way he looks at the Estonian Singing Revolution, where ordinary people found a way to resist without violence. He closes with a challenge for the days around a national election: what will we do with power once we have it?
TRANSCRIPT 🔗
I hope to be some advice and some help with the federal, federal HBQ involvement to not do what they do, do not practice what they teach. The child, I think they're in this department here, and they have on the shoulders of others, and they can still also find ways to look at the danger to the children.
They do all their deeds to receive their numbers, or they make their deliveries to us in the finish line. They love to have a place of honor and to set the date for this…
