“Egypt and the Promise of Refuge” is a Christmas sermon rooted in Matthew 2 that centers the nativity story on displacement, protection, and survival. Rather than treating the flight into Egypt as a minor detail, the message focuses on Jesus entering the world as a child threatened by political violence and preserved through refuge. Through a close reading of Matthew 2, the sermon presents Egypt as a place of shelter and preservation, highlighting how the survival of the Christ child depended on the protection and hospitality of unnamed people amid political violence. The sermon calls listeners to trust God as a refuge, to care for their own spiritual well-being, and to practice love for neighbors—especially the vulnerable—as central to the meaning of Christmas.

This sermon on Luke 14:25–33 examines the radical cost of following Christ through the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. From Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church to resisting Hitler, Bonhoeffer models “costly grace.” Three lessons call the Church to humility, faithfulness over tradition, and resurrection hope in the face of death.

Part five of The Sisters of Hagar—“The Brothers & Sisters of Hagar”—reads Leviticus 24 through Acts 7:22 to expose boundary-keeping that denies Nile-Valley roots. Pastor Qadry charges the Black Church to reject colonized preaching, reclaim Ma’atic balance, and let anti-African forms die so a resurrected, Africa-rooted, Christ-charged community can rise. Anchored by ancestral veneration and the Asar-to-Christ arc.