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She went back

Harriet Tubman, c. 1822–1913

Harriet Tubman escaped slavery in Maryland in 1849. Freedom, for her, was not a finish line. She returned south again and again — perhaps thirteen trips — guiding family and strangers along the Underground Railroad. She carried a pistol, sang coded hymns, and moved at night. Estimates of those she led out are debated; the courage is not. She had every human reason to stay north and call it enough. She treated her own deliverance as an unfinished sentence.

How you’d preach it

Land this on salvation that turns outward. We are not saved to become a closed circle. Ask who the congregation has stopped going back for because the journey is inconvenient.

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Tubman · Luke 15 · Philippians 2

Luke 15:4–6; Philippians 2:4–8

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