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Natalya Cherry | Read Amos 8:1-6
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Sign Up TodayWhy does the first leg of our journey in search of “the better part” take us back to the earliest minor prophet of Israel? Most people today recognize Amos’s words because of Martin Luther King Jr.’s oft-repeated call to “Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing...
God of justice, I confess that my bargaining ends cannot justify unholy means. Do not pass me by, but give me a hunger for justice that transforms my appetite. Amen.
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Our resolve must be different. My prayer is that we have finally reached a tipping point. My hope is that when the protests fade and the marches slow that our will as a church to truly eradicate the scourge of racism won’t dissipate but grows even stronger.”
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