Is There Not a Cause

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Reginald Buckley. Is There Not a Cause

Table of Contents

Introduction

Resisting the Temptation of Open Carry

Jesus and the Color Line

The Blessing and the Burden in Raising Black Boys

I’ve Got Some Issues: Mental Illness

The Mis-Education of the Negro

Love for a Leper: HIV/AIDS and the Black Church

Let’s Get It Together

Sermon Commemorating the Birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

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I am grateful to so many who helped to bring me to this moment of publication. Perhaps I should begin with my mother and father. Mom, you have always been my biggest supporter. Thank you for being an incredible nurturer and a committed educator both in the classroom and in our home.

To my father, whose sermons are much more worthy of print than are these. I am blessed to have been exposed to such rich and dynamic preaching from him since I was a child. Rev. Horace L. Buckley is without question my homiletic hero.

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But wait a minute, let’s reread that. Because the text says, “they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.” So this is not something that God is going to do for us; but this is something that He expects for us to do for ourselves. And so the question becomes how do we transform weapons of violence into tools of productivity?

I’m glad you asked that question because that’s the crux of this sermon. And the first thing we’ve got to do is:

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