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What Is Going On With Gen Z? It’s A Matter Of Your Health – Season 5 Show #2
The Podcast With Marben Bland
09/17/24 • 28 min
According to the American Psychological Association’s latest Stress in America report, Generation Z—young adults born in the mid-1990s and early 2000s experienced a dramatic rise in psychological distress and depressive symptoms. In fact, researchers found that increases in Gen Z depression are more significant than in any other age group.
The report concludes that Gen Z adults and younger millennials are “completely overwhelmed” by stress. Licensed Professional Counselor Dr. Omi Dobbins, who has been treating Gen Z adults, younger millennials and their families cope with the pressures of post pandemic life, joins Dr. Veita Bland to discuss what is going with Gen Z.
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Why We Study Black History
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02/05/22 • 2 min
John 1:43-51 describes the calling of Philp and Nathanael by Jesus.
As the Superbowl approaches folks in Cincinnati and Los Angeles have taken great pride in being from there and having their teams in the Big Game. Philp and Nathanael took great pride in being from the city of Bethsaida. They thought that being from Bethsaida made them superior. They believed in their superiority so much that despite learning that Jesus was the one written about by Moses and spoken about by the prophets. Jesus was dismissed by Philip and Nathanael because he was from Nazareth instead of Bethsaida. So, secure in his superiority Nathanael commented about Jesus saying, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”
America in its laws, actions, and attitudes has been saying “can any good thing come from black people?”
This drumbeat of negativity, discrimination, and hostility can eat at the strongest of black people making us feel worthless.
We study Black History to remind ourselves that we are great people with a history worthy of study. No history of America is complete without a study and celebration of the achievements of African Americans.
We study Black History to examine not only our successes but also to remember the times when our nation failed to live up to its creed that all people are created equal. We study Black History because we must pass our story on to the next generation of young, gifted, and back children who will continue to blaze a trail of greatness in an America that will do everything it can to stop their greatness.
Come and join us tomorrow at Greater Saint Peter as we learn more from John 1:43-51 in a sermon entitled Why We Study Black History. Our service starts at 10:00 AM we worship safely in person at 9540 Fayetteville Road in Jonesboro, Georgia. You can also catch us on Facebook at GSP9540. So, until tomorrow, Blessings, Peace, and Love. j
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Sermon: What Happens When The Priest Are Corrupt
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10/09/23 • 34 min
Sermon: What Happens When The Priest Are Corrupt
Corruption is defined as dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power. Corruption is alive and well in the United States as these resent cases indicate
In a sermon from Malachi chapter one, Pastor Marben Bland, extends God’s message about corruption and how to honor him.
Key Teaching – 3 Godly Ways To Avoid Corruption
1. Stay informed know what God expects from you.
And what does the Lord require of you But to do justly,
To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God? Micah 6:8
2. Recognize that small acts of corruption leads to larger acts of corruption.
“He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.” If you sin in the “little” things, you will sin in the “big” things. Luke 16:10
3. We serve a big God that will forgive and keep us from corruption.
“You say, ‘Oh, it’s too difficult to serve the Lord and do what he asks.’ And you turn up your noses at the rules he has given you to obey...... I am a Great King,” says the Lord Almighty, “and my name is to be mightily revered among the Gentiles.” Malachi 1:13-14
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Devotional: If God Can Tell Our Uncomfortable History, Why Can't We?
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02/25/23 • 2 min
If God Can Tell Our Unpleasant History, Why Can’t We
Without question W.E.B. Du Bois the American sociologist, historian, author, editor, and activist is one the most important Black leaders in the world. He helped found the NAACP and edited The Crisis its magazine. Educated at Fisk and Harvard where he received his Ph.D. in 1895 Dr. Du Bois taught at the then Atlanta University. His collection of essays The Souls of Black Folk published in 1903 continues to be a landmark of American literature.
In his 1935 book Black Reconstruction in America Dr. Du Bois wrote:
We have too often made deliberate attempts to change the facts of history so that the story will make pleasant reading for Americans.
The echoes of Dr. Du Bois words ring true today as the House Speaker has given security tapes of the January 6 uprising to a rightwing media host so that the history of that day can be made more pleasant. Governors across the nation are enacting laws restricting what teachers in kindergarten, elementary, high school and college can teach ensuring that the story of our history remains pleasant. And school boards in the north, south, east, and west are banning books all in the name of keeping anything that is unpleasant away from students.
All this suppression of facts in the name of keeping things pleasant has me wondering if God can tell our unpleasant history, why can’t we?
The Bible while inspiring and uplifting is filled with unpleasant stories. The fall of humankind as Adam and Eve tumble into the devil’s scheme. The rape Tamar and also of Bathsheba by men who used their power to take sex. God’s rapture as described in Revelation is as unpleasant as reading can get. And there is the killing of Jesus on the cross, nails in hands, hanging from the 6th to the 9th hour it is unpleasant.
God provides us with this unpleasant history so we can learn, so we can grow so we can live without fear.
Dr. Du Bois reasoned that fear is the driving force behind the whitewashing of history. In Black Reconstruction in America he writes:
Standing in the back of the writhing, yelling, cruel-eyed demons’ mobs who break, destroy, maim, and lynch and burn at the stake, people of color. There is a knot, large or small, of normal human beings, and these human beings at heart are desperately afraid of something. Of what? Of many things, but usually of losing their jobs, being declassed, degraded, or actually disgraced; of losing their hopes, their savings, their plans for their children; of the actual pangs of hunger, of dirt, of crime.
It is this fear that people like the Governor of Florida, the Speaker of the House and the 44th President of the United States use to wipe out the unpleasantness of history. For they are fearful that with the truth their power is gone.
The Bible is full of unpleasant truths – and with those truths God has not lost any of his power. And neither will you if you embrace the unpleasant truths of the Bible and the unpleasant truths of our own lives for if if God can tell our unpleasant history, why can’t we?
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The Myth About The Peace Of Jesus
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08/16/22 • 2 min
I have a question for you this morning. How many of you believe that the church and for that matter the world should be a place of peace? And that unity should abound not only in church but in our families.
After all, don’t we worship and follow Jesus. Think of all the peaceful titles we give him the lamb of God, the Lilly of the valley, the prince of peace.
When we think of Jesus, we think of peace. Jesus in Luke 12:49-56 busts the long-established myth about him and peace establishing the true meaning of his mission on earth and redefining what peace is. Listen to what he says, 49 “I’ve come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already ablaze! 50 I have a baptism to be baptized with, and what stress I am under until it’s completed! 51 Do you think that I came to bring peace on earth? Not at all, I tell you, but rather division! 52 From now on, five people in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three. 53 They will be divided father against son, son against father, mother against daughter, daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
Dr. King said, True Peace Is Not Merely the Absence of Tension. It Is the Presence of Justice.
While we may not like it Jesus is telling us that the conflict, the tension the difficulty must happen. The Justice that the civil rights movement brought only came about because of the conflict, the tension, the difficulty of the actions on the Edmond Pettus Bridge, The March on Washington, and the strike by the trash men in Memphis.
Later in the passage Jesus offers a stinking assessment of our ability to interpret the time that we are in. Jesus says “When you see a cloud coming in from the west, you immediately say, ‘There’s going to be a storm,’ and that’s what happens. 55 When you see a south wind blowing, you say, ‘It’s going to be hot,’ and so it is. 56 You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, yet you don’t know how to interpret the present time?”
The interpretation of the present time by this humble slave of the Lord tells me it is time for Jesus.
It is time for Jesus because we have messed up and polluted the planet that God has given us dominion over.
It is time for Jesus because despite the marvels of medicine and the goodness of higher education we have priced both so high that folks go in lifelong debt trying to get well or educated.
It is time for Jesus because this week the Republican party again showed what it is and who it is made up of not only right wing raciest, nut jobs and anti-democracy folks, hell bent on defending the lies of a formal President whose lies and theft of classified documents has endangered national security but those people except for Liz Chaney who know what he had done is wrong to decide to remain quite.
So, saints go ahead and bask in the glow of the myth of peaceful church, and the myth of a peaceful Jesus.
However, for me I will follow and act like Jesus keeping in my heart and mind his words:
“I’ve come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already ablaze!
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Sermon: Keep Sowing Good Seeds
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04/22/24 • 16 min
This week the Augusta Conference of The African Methodist Episcopal Church had its Annual Conference.
Pastors make a report at the annual conference. As part of our report which is a written document in addition to an oral report, I reported that we had zero conversions, meaning no one under our watch during the 2023-2024 conference year gave their lives to Christ.
At Greater Bethel we have one mission one vision one purpose: That is fulfilling the Great Commission Command of Matthew 28:16-20—That command is to make disciples for Christ.
So, there are 52 Sundays in a year. And each of those Sundays, during the 2023-2024 conference year we had a church service.
And during those services, we offered the people in the church, the people watching online, the people listing to the sermon later on a Podcast, we have offered them Christ. We have offered them salvation we have offered them Jesus.
No one came, no come accepted Jesus.
At Greater Bethel we have one mission one vision one purpose: That is fulfilling the Great Commission Command of Matthew 28:16-20—That command is to make disciples for Christ.
And in the 2023-2024 conference year, we failed, as your pastor I failed. For no one accepted Jesus.
In 1st Samuel chapter 8 we find that Samuel whom God has appointed as his anointed leader is growing old. Samuel appoints his sons as leaders. They do a poor job, and the people are upset.
The people of Israel who have never had a king, demanded to have one saying in 1st Samuel 8:6 “Give us a king to lead us,”
Depressed and believing that he had failed Samuel prayed to God asking forgiveness. God answered saying it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.
Saints, after offering Jesus every week in our worship service, and our in everyday efforts to offer Jesus on our prayer call, Bible Study, devotional moment and two Sunday Schools. No one accepted Jesus it was not us that was rejected it was Jesus.
In every age and in every place, people can, will, and will continue to reject the Jesus.
We see Jesus in John chapter 8 verses 58-59 escaping being stoned by an angry mob because they did not like his teaching of the gospel.
The text tells us that our savior was saved to live another day, however, the life of Christ and the life of the followers of Christ is a constant tail of rejection.
Isaiah 53:3 describes Jesus as a person who was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. He was despised, and held in low esteem.
Nathanael in John 1:46 rejected Jesus saying, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”
In the book The Great Dechurching authors Jim Davis, Michael Graham and Ryan Burge chronicled that America is currently in the middle of the largest and fastest religious shift in the history of our country.
About 15 percent of American adults living today (around 40 million people) have effectively stopped going to church, and most of this dechurching has happened in the past twenty-five years. And with a ton of it happening as churches returned to in person operations after the restrictions of the pandemic.
What does Greater Bethel AME in Athens, Georgia A church with one goal, one mission, one vison which is to make disciples for Jesus do when the people reject Jesus?
What do we do in Athens, Georgia a town with a vast college population? What do we do in Athens, Georgia a town with diversity from some of the best educated people in the state to go alone whit one of the largest homeless populations in the state?
What do we do, what do we do? As in all things I must tell Jesus.
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Sermon: The 23rd Psalm
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10/16/23 • 25 min
The 23rd Psalm is well known and well loved. Folks who claim not to be quoters of scripture or religious, or faithful know it’s verses.
So why is the 23rd Psalm so popular? The 23rd Psalm is so popular because we can relate to it.
Key Sermon Points:
1. We need a shepherd in our lives, and we need to be a shepherd for others.
God has given us shepherd and his name is Jesus.
2 God gives us green pastures and still restorative waters to keep us focus, productive and fun loving.
For many of us, busyness can become a way of life where doing overrides being. We care for the sick, volunteer, build businesses, and raise families, which are all wonderful things to do; but how often do we take time out from our busy schedules to slow down, relax, and just be?
3. We need to realize that goodness and mercy will follow us all the days of our lives regardless of dark valleys of death that we may tread.
As the death toll rises in the Israeli-Hamas War stories of heroic actions of many are starting to emerge from the October 7th attack on Israel.
Inbar Lieberman is a resident of a Kibbutz a stone’s throw from the Gaza Strip.
When the 25-year-old heard the explosions on that early Saturday morning she realized that the sounds were different than those heard during the usual rocket attacks on the kibbutz.
So, Lieberman rushed to open the armory, distributed guns to the 12-member security team and coordinated their decisive response amid the unfolding attack.
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Devotional: How Godly Is Christian Nationalism?
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06/25/24 • 2 min
Christian nationalism is the belief that the United States is defined by Christianity, and that the government should take active steps to keep it that way.
Scholars like Samuel Huntington have made a similar argument: that America is defined by its “Anglo-Protestant” past and that the United States will lose its identity and its freedom if white cultural is not maintained, preserved, and enhanced.
As Christian Nationalism has grown in popularity in Evangelical circles becoming orthodoxy for the Trump campaign and the Republican party. The question is how Godly is Christian Nationalism?
“For there is no respect of persons with God.” Romans 2:11 is Paul’s admonishment to the supremacy claims of the Christians of Jewish ancestry over the Gentiles who had become recent converts to Christ. This reflects the overwhelming evidence that the Bible does not support Christian Nationalism.
People who claim that their nationality or race gives them special favor with God or that United States should give advantage to them are wrong.
People who place their devotion to Jesus on the same level as their devotion to the United States are wrong.
People who view Christian Nationalism as the way to fix what is wrong with the United States are wrong.
Into all this wrongness there is hope. People who are born again know that this earth and this nation are not our home. While our Christian, voices, influences and actions should be part of the public policy debate we have a higher calling.
Colossians 1:13-14 reminds us that God has saved us from the dark kingdom where Satan rules. He has brought us into the kingdom of his Son, whom he loves. 14 God's Son, Jesus, paid the price for our sins and made us free. Yes, God has forgiven us.
The idolatry, racism, and division of Christian Nationalism will not stand. God’s word is the thing that will stand and as it stand Jesus will be there to forgive who were ever foolish enough to believe that Christian Nationalism was Godly.
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Sermon: The World Becomes Flesh
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12/25/21 • 16 min
John 1:1-14 are verses that reveal not only the actions and promises of God but also the outcomes that can only be achieved if we believe.
Let’s look at the actions of God that are uncovered in this text. First, before anything else existed there was God and with God there was Christ. Second God created everything and third, it is His eternal light that shines through the darkness.
Next are the promises of God. God sent John the Baptist as a witness to Isiah’s prophecy that a child has been born a son has been given to us. Authority will rest on his shoulders, and he shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. That child is Jesus, the son of God who was with God from the beginning before anything came to be. God sent Jesus to live with us, full of loving forgiveness and truth. Then God made one more promise all who believed in Jesus would be saved and would have everlasting life.
Now, remember I said this text John 1:1-14 describes the actions and promises of God.
The outcomes, well in the great wisdom of God, the outcomes have been left to us. And the text addresses them, we rejected Jesus not recognizing this great gift of God sent to live among us. We arrested Jesus, beat Jesus, convicted Jesus on trumped-up charges, nailed him to a cross, and crucified him.
But the Glory of the Lord is greater than any outcome of humans. For on the third day Jesus rose from the dead bringing with him all power and another outcome, this one controlled by God.
The outcome is forgiveness of our sins. For you see Jesus is the Word and God made the Word flesh that lived with us.
So today on this Christmas Eve as we terry about with gifts in tow. Let us pause for a moment to consider the gift of Jesus, the Word that became flesh.
In this pause consider these questions. Are you saved? Have you accepted the gift of Jesus? If not now is the time to pray with me please. Father, I come to you on this day of your son’s birth to say that I am a sinner seeking your forgiveness. Please come and save me and it is in Jesus' name that I pray let us all say Amen.
You have just received the best Christmas present of all salvation. Now the actions, promises, and outcomes of your life are now in God's hands.
You have found the light, now you need to find a good church to keep your light shining brightly because the Word has become flesh within you.
Greater Saint Peter is a church where the Word of God is taught, practiced, and lived.
I invite you to give me a call or send a text my number is 608 358 1309. Connect with me any time and let’s start a dialogue about your faith.
Now for a Christmas Benediction, a special covering of God’s grace until we meet again. May the light of Jesus be with you this and every day as you bask in the goodness of God’s forgiveness. – Let us all say Amen.
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Devotional Leading With God
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09/18/24 • 1 min
2nd Kings 18:3 describesHezekiah as a model King. Who did what was right in the sight of the Lord, just as his ancestor David had done.
However, like David, Hezekiah did not always lead with God. Under threat of attack from the King of Assyria, Hezekiah gave away the gold and other treasures of the temple. Allowing the ungodly to plunder the things of God.
In our modern world it is so easy for us to allow the ungodly to plunder the things of God in our lives.
However, as Hezekiah found later when he prayed, allowing God to lead him, the threat facing his nation were eliminated and the King of Assyria who caused all the trouble was killed.
Hezekiah, was imperfect and so are we and that is why we should lead with God.
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