Rev. Dr. Mark David Albertson
The Sermon I Almost Didn’t Preach
It was Saturday night, and my sermon was sitting on my desk like a dare.
It was about racial justice.
About the call to repair what’s been broken.
I could hear the little voice in my head:
“This will make people uncomfortable.”
“This could get you in trouble.”
Jeremiah’s words wouldn’t leave me alone: “If I say, ‘I will not mention God or speak any more in his name,’ his word is in my heart like a fire… I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.”
By Sunday morning, my stomach was in knots.
But as I stood in the pulpit, I thought about Jesus flipping tables in the temple.
He wasn’t polite about injustice.
He was passionate because he loved people too much to let corruption stand.
I preached the sermon.
Some people thanked me through tears.
Some people never came back.
That’s the cost of truth-telling.
It’s also the privilege.
Progressive faith isn’t about picking safe topics.
It’s about trusting that the Gospel is good news — and sometimes good news sounds like “The way things are isn’t the way they have to be.”
Have you ever almost stayed silent about something that mattered?
What gave you the courage to speak?
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