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Amiri Hooker
Contributing sermons since Mar 22, 2011
Newest Sermons
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Words Have Power/ Don’t Babel
Contributed on Jun 4, 2022
We all grow as disciples of Jesus Christ, enlarging our understanding of the church and the faith. And then maybe we can overcome Babel by speaking one in Christ on this Pentecost Sunday.
This text is offered as an alternative First Reading for the Day of Pentecost, with the instructions that if it is chosen, then Acts 2:1-21 gets used as the Second Reading. Certainly, there have been connections made between Genesis 11:1-9 and Acts 2:1-21, with people understanding God’s gift of ...read more
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"what God Called Clean" Fifth Sunday Of Easter, Year C
Contributed on May 14, 2022
Change is all around us, even in the church. And change is never easy. Our text this week is about a whole new direction for the beginnings of the church.
Acts 11:1-18 The Jewish leaders in Judea, the circumcised, The Church Leaders rebuked Peter for sharing a meal, Breaking Bread, with the uncircumcised, the Gentiles (cf. Galatians 2:11-14). They gave him holy heck for doing what they felt went against the rules. Peter proceeds to tell how it ...read more
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We Are Witnesses Second Sunday Of Easter, Year C
Contributed on Apr 24, 2022
Easter is unsettling. That’s our thesis for this series. No, wait, that’s a given. That’s a foundational statement. The thesis is because Easter is unsettling for the world, we need to be witnesses to the Easter event.
We Are Witnesses SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER, YEAR C Acts 5:27-32 5:27 When they had brought them, they had them stand before the council. The high priest questioned them, 5:28 saying, "We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and ...read more
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"I Thirst” Jesus Is Thirsty.
Contributed on Apr 13, 2022
Jesus was also showing us that what we need when things get to their worst is a thirst to overcome our dry faith.
Sermon Good Friday 2022 Seven Last Words “I Thirst” Jesus is Thirsty. This may appear overly simplistic. The temptation is to take these words and interpret them in some overly spiritualized manner. We might equate “thirsting” with Christ’s call to “hunger and thirst after righteousness” (Matthew ...read more
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Sermon "Judas’s Never Want To Help The Poor”
Contributed on Apr 13, 2022
The Scripture says basically That satin entered him, and Jesus Said Just Do it! Wow and then the text says the disciples thought Judas was concerned with the poor.
Sermon Lent Services Lake City UMC Date 04/13/2022 Sermon “Judas’s Never want to Help the Poor.” John 13:21-30 The Message 21 After he said these things, Jesus became visibly upset, and then he told them why. “One of you is going to betray me.” 22-25 The disciples looked around at one another, ...read more
Newest Sermon Series
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Easter Year C
Contributed on May 14, 2022
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Seven Last Words
Contributed on Apr 13, 2022
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Gathered Up In Jesus
Contributed on Mar 11, 2022
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#myblackhistory
Contributed on Feb 4, 2022
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What The Church Can Learn From The Carolina P...
Contributed on Feb 6, 2016
What the Church can learn from the Carolina Panthers: by Burt Williams 1. Leadership matters: The leadership on Offence and Defense this year is stellar and it begins with the primary leaders Cam Newton and Luke Kuechly, they lead the team on the field and have the responsibility to adjust ...read more
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Killing Each Other Over Race
Contributed on Mar 22, 2011
KILLING EACH OTHER OVER RACE Two million people have been killed during the civil war in the Sudan Region of Africa mostly over race, mostly over skin tone. The name Sudan comes from "bilad al sudan": Arabic for "the land of the blacks." So you might expect Sudanese to be comfortable with the ...read more
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Use What Is There
Contributed on Mar 22, 2011
USE WHAT IS THERE My son Omri is large, extremely smart and very active. He has not met a tree or roof that he has not at least mentally pondered climbing. Omri's teacher runs up to me the other day and says, "Your son almost made me lose my mind, my religion and my job." This is not unusual, so ...read more
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The Birth Of The Poor People's Campaign
Contributed on Mar 22, 2011
THE BIRTH OF THE POOR PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGN A visit to a fledgling Head Start program in Marks brought home the reality of rural poverty to Dr. King and Ralph Abernathy. "We looked around the primitive schoolhouse and saw them watching us, wide-eyed and silent, having been told who we were," ...read more