Jun 10, 2026 · 31 min · 9 segments
What does freedom in Christ really mean and look like for the believer? Join Rev. Lisa Yebuah with Rev. Donna Coletrane Battle at SER\T for a special co-sermon.
Donna Coletrane BattleGuest
Lisa YebuahHost
It's always a gift to get to co-preach with individuals within our church community.
And this morning, Reverend Dr. Donna Coletrane Battle will be my co-preacher today.
But I want to share a little bit of background as to why it is Donna's voice that's going to help carry this understanding of what it feels like, what it is for us to be a church community in the month of June that centers the gift of liberation.
In 2020, when we were living behind closed doors, in the midst of being in shelter-in-place, the first phase of kind of coming out of shelter-in-place happened in June.
I don't know why, but in the June of 2020, our staff said, you know what we want to anchor this month in is in the five senses of liberation.
And then the passages of Scripture after the season of Pentecost also lean into the Exodus wanderings of a God who is a liberating God, a God who is at work in our lives to help us to know that Jubilee... you know, life more abundantly is not just this ethereal notion, but that Jubilee can actually be lived out with our lives.
And so since June of 2020, which is so odd because we were really locked up then, And yet I believe that there was something inside of us that knew that this is not the life we want to settle on.
Somehow being closed up, that there's a spiritual manifestation and also to this literal manifestation of a God who was like, no, we want you to live free.
And June has these touch points that help us to do that in addition to the scripture.
God has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give them a garland instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a faint spirit.
They will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord to display God's glory.
It's always a gift to get to co-preach with individuals within our church community.
And this morning, Reverend Dr. Donna Coletrane Battle will be my co-preacher today.
But I want to share a little bit of background as to why it is Donna's voice that's going to help carry this understanding of what it feels like, what it is for us to be a church community in the month of June that centers the gift of liberation.
In 2020, when we were living behind closed doors, in the midst of being in shelter-in-place, the first phase of kind of coming out of shelter-in-place happened in June.
I don't know why, but in the June of 2020, our staff said, you know what we want to anchor this month in is in the five senses of liberation.
And then the passages of Scripture after the season of Pentecost also lean into the Exodus wanderings of a God who is a liberating God, a God who is at work in our lives to help us to know that Jubilee... you know, life more abundantly is not just this ethereal notion, but that Jubilee can actually be lived out with our lives.
And so since June of 2020, which is so odd because we were really locked up then, And yet I believe that there was something inside of us that knew that this is not the life we want to settle on.
Somehow being closed up, that there's a spiritual manifestation and also to this literal manifestation of a God who was like, no, we want you to live free.
And June has these touch points that help us to do that in addition to the scripture.
God has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give them a garland instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a faint spirit.
They will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord to display God's glory.
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