Pass-The_ Ball...
From Generation to Generation- Durham,N.C.
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Saturday, February 3, 2024
Friday, February 2, 2024
The Great Migration: The African American Exodus from The South
https://priceonomics.com/the-great-migration-the-african-american-exodus/?fbclid=IwAR10Ty95hnI_6XeCNfEQ9UaxIOfQGxVctGfxeQqBh899DNExltR2cVQfi0U
The Negro in Literature and Art-1918.
Collecting African American Artbooks and Catalogs:
Going through my collection.
The Negro in Literature and Art-1918.
Detailed look at black people, mainly American, but also some European, from the 1700s to the 1900s in art, literature, painting, sculpture and theatre. The author also gives an interesting analysis of the work of these people.
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Pass-The_ Ball...: A Prayer for the New Year
Pass-The_ Ball...: We Are Blessed
Pass-The_ Ball...: We Are Blessed: We Americans are a blessed people, but we are also spoiled. I know I am. I can get flustered over the stupidest things—like when my cell p...
Pass-The_ Ball...: Christmas is Coming
Monday, December 11, 2023
A MARVELOUS LIGHT!
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT TEXT, THE ACCOUNT BY ISAIAH, THE PROPHET AND
PREACHER IS THE MESSAGE OF HOPE AND LIGHT TO A PEOPLE WHO WERE INDARKNESS. GOD APPEARED TO ISAIAH A FEW CHAPTERS EARLIER. IN THE
CHAPTER, ISAIAH TELLS US THAT IT WAS THE YEAR THAT KING UZZIAH DIED
AND ISAIAH SAW THE LORD OF LIGHT SITTING UPON HIS THRONE, HIGH AND
LIFTED UP; AND THE LORD'S TRAIN FILLED THE TEMPLE.
GOD ALWAYS HAS A WORD OF HOPE TO SPEAK TO US WHENEVER WE CONSIDER
OURSELVES AT A POINT OF ABSENCE OF HOPE.
WE CANNOT SEE OUR WAY--JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME WHEN WE CALL ON HIM
HE SHOWS UP! TOO OFTEN WE DON'T SHOW UP BUT THE LORD ALWAYS SHOWS UP!
SOMEBODY SAID THAT HE MAY NOT COME WHEN YOU WANT HIM BUT HE IS ALWAYS
RIGHT ON TIME.
NOW AS WE MOVE TO THE N.T/ SCRIPTURE, FOR FOUR HUNDRED YEARS THE
PEOPLE OF GOD WERE WITHOUT A PROPHET--THEY WALKED AND LIVED IN
DARKNESS IN THE NIGHT. THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH WAS NEAR
AND FAR!
WAR, HEATHEN WORSHIP, SCOURGE OF THEIR ENEMIES CONSTANTLY WERE ON
THEIR MIND AND COLORED THEIR EVERYDAY EXISTENCE. IN THE OT,
NEBUCHADNEZZAR AND THE BABYLONIANS HAD DESTROYED THE CHILDREN OF GOD
AND TORE DOWN THEIR FAMILIES--WOMEN AND CHILDREN. DEPORTED THEM TO
BABYLON EXILE AND SUBJUGATED THEM INTO A NEW SLAVERY SIMILAR TO
EGYPTIAN BONDAGE. DARKNESS AND HOPELESSNESS COVERED EVERY ASPECT OF
THEIR LIVES. NOW THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF DARKNESS IN THE LIVES OF
GOD'S PEOPLE
THE TEXT TELLS US TODAY THAT THE PEOPLE WHO WALKED IN DARKNESS HAD
SEEN A MARVELOUS LIGHT! THE PROPHECY FROM ISAIAH IS GOOD NEWS TO A
PEOPLE IN DARKNESS. HIS PROPHECY OF THE COMING SAVIOR AND LIGHT
BRINGER OF LIFE IS TIMELY, RELEVANT AND SPEAKS TO THE CONDITION OF
EVEN MEN AND WOMEN TODAY WHO ARE STILL IN DARKNESS.!
Thursday, November 9, 2023
Focus
I suppose those reading this page are believers. As believers we know that God
has a purpose in our lives. We know that God gives us things to do that we can't
do by ourselves. These things are like walking on water to us. We can only walk
on water as long as we keep our eyes fixed on HIM. So, the enemy, who doesn't
want us to have victory distracts us from our focus. Yet, we will have victory if we can focus on the Lord.
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