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Driscoll, Avatar, and Native Justice | Out of Ur | Conversations for Ministry Leaders

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Paul Louis Metzger is professor of Christian theology and theology of culture at Multnomah Biblical Seminary in Portland, Oregon.  He writes a great article reviewing the movie Avatar and the infamous critique of a Seattle Pastor.  Go to the above link to read the entire post.

Jayson and Tarrah Palm and the Ministry of Freedom Firm

Jayson and Tarrah Palm, July 25

(Listen to Sunday July 25th teaching by clicking the link above or right click to download file to your computer).  Jayson and Tarrah Palm share about their first year and a half in India serving with Freedom Firm.  Freedom Firm is a ministry dedicated to rescuing and restoring girls sold and trafficked in India.

For more information go to www.FreedomFirm.org

The Dream of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Here's the text of MLK JR's I have a Dream Speech

"I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."