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February: Black History Month
Theme: “Striving for Justice and Liberation”

Sermon Series: “Striving for Justice and Liberation”
Texts: James 5:15-16, Exodus 3:7-10, Psalm 137:1-6, Galatians 3:26-29


 

Sermon #1: Managing God’s Tools for Community Health
Text: James 5:15-16
SCI: The Tools of Intercession and Confession Can Lead to Community Healing and Restoration
Billboard: MANAGE GOD’S TOOLS FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH!

Sermon #2: Striving for Justice and Liberation Through Our Ombudsman
Text: Exodus 3:7-10
SCI: God Is Not a Distant Observer but a Divine Ombudsman of Systemic Injustices
Billboard: TRUST GOD FOR JUSTICE AND LIBERATION!

Sermon #3: Striving for Justice and Liberation Through Resistance
Text: Psalm 137:1-6
SCI: God Gives Psalms for Rejoicing and God Gives Psalms for Resistance
Billboard: RESIST OPPRESSION AND INJUSTICE!

Sermon #4: Striving for Justice and Liberation Through Spiritual Connection
Text: Galatians 3:26-29
SCI: Our Identity Is Not Through a Social Category—Our Identity Is Through a Spiritual Connection
Billboard: FOCUS ON OUR SPIRITUAL CONNECTION!

Each Sermon Central Idea is developed in the form of an indicative.
Each Billboard is developed in the form of an imperative.

Sermon Series Overview and Outline
Prepared by Pastor Trevor Crenshaw for February 1, 2026 – February 22, 2026

Helpful Quotes
Compiled by Pastor Trevor Crenshaw for Feburary 1, 2026 – Feburary 22, 2026

All outlines are subject to divine adjustment.

 

Helpful Quotes

  • "Justice is what love looks like in public." — Dr. Cornel West

  • "True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice." — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

  • "To do justice is to render to everyone their due, and this is done out of love for God." — St. Thomas Aquinas

  • "The opposite of poverty is not wealth. In too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice." — Bryan Stevenson

  • "Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it." — Paulo Freire

  • "None of us is free until all of us are free." — Maya Angelou

  • "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." — Desmond Tutu

  • "Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous." — A. Philip Randolph

  • "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." — Frederick Douglass

  • "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." — Theodore Parker (popularized by MLK)

  • "Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought." — John Rawls

  • "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

  • "We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself." — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  • "Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals." — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

  • "The Bible is a book about liberation. It is a book about a God who takes the side of the oppressed." — James H. Cone

  • "Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. They claim it as their own and none can keep it from them." — Kwame Nkrumah

  • "I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own." — Audre Lorde