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.
John’s Gospel omits a large amount of material found in the synoptic Gospels, including some surprisingly important episodes: the temptation of Christ, Jesus’ transfiguration,...
Today is Day 100 of our series 100 Days in the New Testament. And we end our series in Book 66 of God’s Word,...
John 15:19 states, “If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the...
