Sessions Include:

Amos, Hosea, Jonah, Micah
Lesson #1: Amos 2 

Amos, Hosea, Jonah, Micah
Lesson #2: Amos 4

Amos, Hosea, Jonah, Micah
Lesson #3: Amos 5

Amos, Hosea, Jonah, Micah
Lesson #4: Amos 9

Amos, Hosea, Jonah, Micah
Lesson #5: Jonah 1 - 2 

Amos, Hosea, Jonah, Micah
Lesson #6: Jonah 3 - 4 

Amos, Hosea, Jonah, Micah
Lesson #7: Hosea 1, 3

Amos, Hosea, Jonah, Micah
Lesson #8: Hosea 6 

Amos, Hosea, Jonah, Micah
Lesson #9: Hosea 10 

Amos, Hosea, Jonah, Micah
Lesson #10: Hosea 14 

Amos, Hosea, Jonah, Micah
Lesson #11: Micah 3

Amos, Hosea, Jonah, Micah
Lesson #12: Micah 4, 5 

Amos, Hosea, Jonah, Micah
Lesson #13: Micah 7

Perhaps one of the 10 greatest sermons in the history of Christianity was King’s “I Have a Dream” sermon, delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., in August 1963:

I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor’s lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.

King’s “I Have a Dream” sermon changed the way the nation viewed equality and eventually led to the civil rights legislation in Congress. The civil rights legislation established equal rights for Black Americans under the law and affected all Americans in many ways—from installing special curbs for people in wheelchairs to banning stores from segregating their bathrooms and drinking fountains.

King’s civil rights movement was rooted in the belief that all humans are made in the image of God: “So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them” (Gen. 1:27). King believed that all people—male or female, young or old, rich or poor, healthy or sick—deserved to be treated with respect and equality under the law. Like the prophet Amos (who King quoted in his “I Have a Dream” sermon), King desired for “justice [to] run down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream” (Amos 5:24).

King formed his policy of passive resistance based on the writings and experience of Mahatma Gandhi, who in the 1930s organized people in India to aggressively—but nonviolently—revolt against the British government. Ghandi resisted British rule by having his followers boycott British-produced salt, tea and cloth. He set an example by weaving his own cloth and urging millions of others to do the same. Gandhi led marches and suffered for his cause. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Gandhi were men who saw injustice in the world and decided to make a stand against that injustice. -- Towns, Elmer L. 2006. How to Pray: When You Don’t Know What to Say. Ventura, CA: Regal; Gospel Light.

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