Sermon: Amichai Lau Lavie at St James Worship 01 18 2026 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Tiime Year A MLK скачать в хорошем качестве

Sermon: Amichai Lau Lavie at St James Worship 01 18 2026 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Tiime Year A MLK

This sermon moment invites you to pause—and to show up. Before the sermon begins, Rev. Derrick McQueen, Ph.D., offers the special music “The Impossible Dream (The Quest)”—a prayer set to song that names the cost, courage, and hope required to keep walking toward justice when the road feels long. It is not performance; it is invocation. From that place, we turn to the sermon offered by Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, founding Spiritual Leader of Lab/Shul. His sermon centers on a single, powerful word: ANOKHI — “Here I am.” Not as a statement of certainty, but as an act of presence. A willingness to stand with others. A refusal to turn away. Drawing on the prophetic tradition, the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the shared witness of communities committed to justice and repair, this sermon invites us to consider what it means to answer love’s call in our own time. Anokhi becomes a shared posture—across faiths, across difference—anchored in courage, humility, and solidarity. Watch this moment not as a spectator, but as a companion along the way. Listen for where you are being invited to say, quietly and faithfully, Here I am. Please visit our website’s bulletin page for the Sermon Companion Guide.