Prayer for Peace

As we look at the cycle of violence and how it has been escalating over the past few years, with the inception of the Black Lives Matter movement in response to police killings in Fergusson and Cinncinati, it's hard not to become disheartened and disillusioned over the moral state of humanity, especially in the United States.  Our culture has become so enamored of guns that it has risen to the level of fetishism.  Yet we defend our right to bear arms and protect ourselves, even as we continue to kill each other at an alarming rate.  In today's podcast, I'm presenting not a sermon, but a prayer.  This prayer and its introduction I gave at the July 10th service at Ebenezer United Methodist Church.  I just felt that it was important to address these issues in a timely manner, and to remind ourselves that while prayer is needed, it also needs to be backed by action.

Recorded at Ebenezer UMC on July 10, 2016