Dr. Martin Luther King

On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King gave what I think is the greatest speech of our time. I would like to encourage you to click on the link below and listen to the speech today in honor of Dr. King.

While you listen to his profound words, I would also ask that you read the words (transcribed on the web site page.

Please pay attention to the whole of the speech. In our fast food, drive through, microwave, rushed world, it is too easy to reduce his whole life to one speech and then to reduce that one speech to one sound bite. Pay particular attention to his words of wisdom about the destiny of people interlinked with others. (Hint: there will be more about that phrase in the near future!)
Praise God for what He is doing in our lives and our church! Thank you Dr. King for dedicating your life to others.

http://www.mlkonline.net/video-i-have-a-dream-speech.html

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major. Say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. Say that I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter. I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things in life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind. And that's all I want to say. If I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a word or song, if I can show somebody he is traveling wrong, then my living will not be in vain."

Excerpted from "The Drum Major Instinct", a sermon by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1968. Available on CD and print in A Knock At Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

http://www.thekingcenter.org/

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Some additional information about a life well lived...indeed very well lived:

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html

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Note: I feel there is little that I can say about Dr. King. His words and his life speak volumes of what God desires to do in the lives of those that follow Him!