elders and spokesmen are shown no respect. “Everything here resonates with our deepest religious values to love our neighbors and lift from the bottom,” Barber said. 2 Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens, and our houses to foreigners. We get bread (or jog in our neighborhoods) at the risk of our lives           because of the guns on the streets. Find Lamentations 5 Sermon Illustrations, browse preaching ideas and sermon stories on Lamentations 5 REUTERS/Eric Miller. Why do you always forget us? Lamentations . Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. Unjustly incarcerated because of staggering negative expectations. This sermon does not have any notes. Black women have been violated throughout our nation's history;           Breonna Taylor gunned down in her own home. The Paperback Bible presents the Bible by the Book and is designed to be portable, readable, and truly personal with ample margins for notations. Subscribe to the weekly sermon from Keep Believing Ministries. Bible> Commentaries> Sermon. We submit to uncaring government officials and to big business to get enough bread. Lamentations 3 Funeral Sermon: She Kept Us from Taking Ourselves… (Hoffacker) Only a couple days ago I came to realize the lesson that Margaret taught us. Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. J.R. Thomson . Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. Lamentations 5:1. The Decline Of National Religion . + Funeral Homilies Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2 Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens, and our houses to foreigners. 3 We have become orphans and waifs; our mothers are like widows. 21. Lamentations 5: 1 – 22 Vengeance of the servants 1 Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us; Look, and behold our reproach! Our ancestors sinned the great sin of instituting slavery;           they are no more — but we bear their shame. 3 We have become orphans and waifs; our mothers are like … Quoting scripture and St. Augustine, Joe Biden becomes second Catholic U.S. president. The system of slavery and institutionalized racism ruled over us,           and there is no one to free us from their hands. The work of racial justice and the 2020 election. But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. Lamentations. Why do you forsake us for so long? They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 5 is no less a part of Lamentations than the previous four chapters; perhaps the raw emotion and agony could no longer be contained in the disciplined acrostic form. Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us;Look, and behold our reproach!Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens,And our houses to foreigners.We have become orphans and waifs,Our mothers are like widows.We pay for the water we drink,And our wood comes at a price.They pursue at our heels;We labor and have no rest.We have given our hand to the EgyptiansAnd the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.Our fathers sinned and are no more,But we bear their iniquities.Servants rule over us;There is non… Sermon … Lamentations 5:8. Our sense of exceptionalism has been exposed. 1. A study of Jeremiah’s life reveals a portrait of unending sadness and deep depression. Lamentations 1:1-22. Received an unwanted call to minister - Jer. The secret of man's perfection may be summed up in these short words: Love to God. 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