The spiritual is a combination of African musical traditions and European Christian hymns. They are meditations on the triumph of the metaphysical over the physical realities of slavery. They attempt to answer profound questions: What happens to an enslaved person when she dies? What does it mean if her life has been so denigrated on earth? What does freedom feel like if your only access to it is in your imagination? What miracles of God are needed to get free?
Today’s Top Ten List explores “Messages – Explicit in Implied – in Some African American Spirituals.” Scriptures referenced include Joshua 3; Jeremiah 8; Jeremiah 46:11; Isaiah 2:4; and Joshua 6.
Toward the end of His earthly life, Jesus could testify to His disciples that He had been faithful to His Father’s commandments, and, as...
Today we wrap up our brief study of the book of Hosea. This book, with its themes of unfaithful love, judgment, and the promise...
Our study of Jesus, in “Every Book of the Bible,” takes us to the book of Job. Job is one of the most enigmatic...
