It's Time To Provide For Our Own House

Bishop Carroll Johnson of Lifevision Church Orlando discusses the mandate of our community to start providing for ourselves, using Bible Scripture to prove his point. Bishop Carroll Johnson has been a leader and advocate for self improvement for several decades and in this series, he drives the point home

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Bold Steps For Black Churches

BishopHoltBy Lawrence A Robinson
During Sunday Worship Service this week, a Black church in Orlando took the daring position of announcing it’s endorsement of the ‘BootStrapping Project.’ The congregation was asked to take out their phones and log into a prerecorded 4 minute presentation.

Before worship service begin, the ushers added a page to each member's program with instructions on how to login to the online community announcement update site.

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We Get To Save Ourselves

PastorGlendy 200We already know that no cavalry on horseback is riding down the hill to save us, right? Our politicians are fighting the good fight, but we are still losing.
We are losing the fight for fair housing. We lose when we try to fight for justice. We are not receiving equal income for equal abilities and we are losing badly in our pursuit of happiness.

As a pastor in our community, you know this better than most, don’t you? Maybe, if we build our own economic system, we could start to win, right?

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Are You One Of God's Elite Class?

RevWilliamBarberby Samantha M Phillips (comments on Rev. Dr. William Barber Dem. Convention Speech)
"I'm so concerned with those who say so much about what God says so little while saying so little about what God says so much" Rev Dr William J. Barber, II

I don't know for sure, but can safely assume from the full content of his speech that Dr Barber & I may not share the exact same position on every predominate policy of our time. However, we do agree on the majority of what his speech is saying and calling out to our nation for!

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