Faith-Filled Celebrities Call for Justice in the Midst of Turmoil

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Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, and plead the widow’s cause,” (Isaiah 1:17).

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Let’s be active in making sure our hearts are softened, to engage, to understand that our privilege gives us the power to make a difference and that we can stay silent and ineffective no longer. Prejudice and latent white supremacy lies in all of our hearts if we will dig deep enough to find it. We have to start with ourselves to be able to truly elevate and serve our brothers and sisters of color and challenge those who refuse to look within to their own sin. Let’s get to work. This is the beginning of a song I wrote. Soften my heart Lord Soften my heart Soften my heart Lord Soften my heart. From all indifference From any pain From privileged silence Wash me again

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A prayer for peace and justice ?? #BlackLivesMatter

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7 days ago this man’s life was taken in the most inhumane way. Period. It can only be described as PURE Human Evil, void of any mercy or compassion. As a Christian I have been in shock at what our world is.. I don’t say what our world has “become” because it’s always been like this, sitting below the surface, but now it’s more visible, better documented and spread faster then ever before. Black lives matter George Floyd’s life mattered Ahmaud Arbery’s life mattered. And the countless unnamed victims who’s deaths haven’t been horrific enough to go viral, their lives mattered also. I have seen Los Angeles a city I called home for 10 years burn on the television while I’m back home taking care of my family. I have watched in horror as the United States a country that took me in, is being crippled by hate. I have actually come to hate social media. I Hate that everyone needs to weigh in on everything immediately as if we are just programmed robots. Void of feelings, void of pain, just billboards for the mob, targets for the Godless and self righteous. Like I said I’m a Christian, a follower of Jesus. People somehow forget that Jesus was “the” innocent man who was killed at the hands of human evil. Here you see God’s love and man’s evil clash in a single moment within human history. This is what I choose to share in the face of our world’s consistent hate & prejudice. People want me to use my voice, but don’t want to listen to my message. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. WE LOVE, BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US. If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.

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Maxwell and Finnegan at 2 years old. “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite” – Nelson Mandela #justice #georgefloyd

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