Sunday, August 09 (11:00 am)
“Between Jabbock and a Hard Place”
Genesis 32: 22-32
There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from running. Not the kind you train for — the kind where you’ve spent years managing a mess of your own making, and the past finally catches up with you in the middle of the night, alone, at a river you have to cross whether you’re ready or not.
That’s where we find Jacob on the shores of the Jabbok. A man who built his whole life on deception now wrestling — literally, physically wrestling — with God until daybreak. And he doesn’t walk away unscathed. He walks away with a limp. He walks away with a new name. He walks away changed in a way that shows in how he moves through the rest of his life.
Join us Sunday, August 9th, as Rev. Darrell R. Hamilton II brings the Word in a sermon titled “Between Jabbock and a Hard Place.” Because most of us know exactly what it feels like to be caught there too — caught between the thing we can’t undo and the thing we’re afraid to face.
Shiloh Baptist Church | 1 Holton St, Medford, MA
All are welcome. Come ready to dig deep and build something that lasts.
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Rev. Darrell R. Hamilton, II, MDiv, is an ordained Baptist pastor. He received his seminary degree from Wake Forest School of Divinity in 2017. Darrell also has an undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of Central Oklahoma.
Rev. Hamilton is the Executive Pastor of the First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain. His ministry is centered on leading our world toward greater justice and love for all people. His vocational and professional journey has been inspired by the scholarship of people such as James Cone and Kelly Brown Douglas, and the ministries of Jeremiah Wright, Jr., Martin Luther King, Jr., William Barber, II, and others.
He is the former Executive Minister of Operations and Resource Development at Middle Collegiate Church in New York. Prior he was the Program Director for City Mission Boston’s Urban Pastoral Ministry Program, Adjunct Professor for Contextual Education at Boston University School of Theology, and held leadership positions with the Massachusetts Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.
Darrell is the father of Kaylani Rae Wilson-Hamilton. He is a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. He enjoys going to the movies, reading books, and is a self-professed comic book movie nerd.
Instagram Handle: @blackandeducatedpreacher
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