Tag: Kwanzaa
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Joyous Kwanzaa, Day 7: IMANI
True believers understand that salvation is a deed-less experience, that we are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. That we find redemption in receiving the forgiveness purchased by the blood shed on the cross. But there IS another step thereafter. That same faith, when fully formed through the hearing of the word, produces…
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Joyous Kwanzaa, Day 6: KUUMBA
The creative mind of God is immeasurable—something that mankind has spent its existence investigating in an ongoing attempt to extricate the source and replicate the perfection thereof. From DNA strands and quarks, to particle accelerators and space missions, to the Tower of Babel and astrology and the so-called ascended masters, we’ve been trying to reproduce…
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Joyous Kwanzaa, Day #5: NIA
When God created mankind God did so with intention, making man in His own image and taking time to shape the form of man with His own hands and breathe into man life. Within the breath of God is a portion of God’s character, and that is PURPOSE. We are shaped in it, born with…
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Joyous Kwanzaa, Day #3: Ujima
One of the great mysteries of the believer’s walk of faith is the belief that God exists in a plural state of oneness. This is no theology lesson on today; but I want to point out to you that from the very beginning, God has modeled for us the perfection of the collective. In Genesis…
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Joyous Kwanzaa, Day 2: Kujichagulia
A critical missing piece of my personal puzzle has been understanding and accepting without fear and uncertainty “who I am”. And not only “who I am” but am I being all that I have been created, called, and purposed to be? The excessively outward living that we have always done in this nation—white-ward, heavenward, money-ward,…