The “101 Tuskegee Airmen” typically refers to the 101 Black officers arrested at Freeman Army Airfield in Seymour, Indiana, in April 1945. They engaged in a historic act of mass civil disobedience against military segregation, known as the Freeman Field Mutiny. Black officers peacefully entered and attempted to use the White officers’ club and were arrested by military police. Base leadership...
Fix Your Thoughts and Free Your Mind (Inspired by Worry to Worship devotional written by Lakeisha Maldon) The enemy takes great joy in having us so entangled with the cares of everyday life that our minds are constantly in overdrive. We can run miles in minutes and can’t really give focus and attention on the...
“If God gives such attention to the appearance of wildflowers — most of which are never even seen — don’t you think he’ll attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for you? What I’m trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not be so preoccupied with getting, so...
Be kind to yourself. Some of you pray for everyone you care for, but sometimes you do not care for yourself. You are precious to Me, says the Lord, and are like a delicate instrument that I can use to fulfill spiritual purpose (Burns). Psalm 139:14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully...
For all of God’s promises have been fulfilled in Christ with a resounding “Yes!” And through Christ, our “Amen” (which means “Yes”) ascends to God for his glory. 2 Cor 1:20, NLT Live like you love Him
We celebrate and commemorate all of the fathers, grandfathers, and father figures.
No Greater Love! “What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? Since He did not spare even His own Son but gave Him up for us all, won’t He also give us everything else?…Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does...
Many of you are adjusting to a new normal, and it feels like you are in a foreign land. But, when you come into My presence you will always be at home and in a place of safety, says the Lord. Put aside all trepidation and know that you are on solid spiritual ground. I...
“This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an...
Wilson Newman, J.C. Pratt, S.M. Holland, and Heston Welborn were African American entrepreneurs who founded the Ardmore Lubrication Oil Company in 1917, in Oklahoma. During the Jim Crow era, they created a largely forgotten, pioneering, fully Black-owned oil operation that included drilling and building a refinery in Tatums, Oklahoma. The Company was capitalized at $50,000 and purchased a 100-acre oil...
