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William Wilberforce introduced his first bill against the British slave trade in 1789. It failed. So did the next, and the next. He…
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Christ Is Risen in Red Square
Charles Colson, The Body (recounting May Day 1990, Moscow)
On May Day 1990 in Moscow’s Red Square, while tanks and missiles rolled past the reviewing stand, a group of Orthodox believers carried a large cross in the procession of protesters. As they came in front of Gorbachev, the priests lifted the cross high so that the figure of Christ rose above the giant portraits of Marx, Engels, and Lenin. One priest called out toward the Soviet leader, “Mikhail Sergeyevich! Christ is risen!” In a public square still marked by the machinery of a regime that had tried to erase the faith, the oldest Christian proclamation was spoken again.
How you’d preach it
Powerful picture of the cross publicly confronting the symbols of a system that claimed God was dead. Works well for Easter or for the public claim of the resurrection.
- Hope
- Courage
- Faith
Colson