If It Ain't One Thing... The Blues Before the Benediction | Pastor Courtney Clayton Jenkins |

About this sermon

From spirituals to gospel, Black music has always carried the testimony of a people who refused to be erased. These songs were never written for entertainment. They emerged as the soundtrack of survival—born in captivity, grief, hope, and holy resistance. Throughout this February sermon series, Rhythm & Resistance, we listen for how faith finds its voice under pressure, how rhythm becomes theology, and how song becomes a lifeline for people committed to remaining faithful to God on the long walk. Some seasons do not arrive one at a time. Before you can process one loss, another phone call comes. Before you can recover from one headline, another breaks. Before you can exhale, life shifts again. Job 1 tells the story of a day when everything came at once. Messenger after messenger. Loss after loss. Back to back devastation. And yet, in the middle of the avalanche, Job does something unexpected. He grieves. He falls. And then he worships. In troubling times, when the news keeps coming and the weight feels relentless, how do we hold faith without pretending? How do we honor the blues without losing the promise? What does worship look like when there has not yet been a benediction?

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• Leadership