Great book. This is not a book to read in one sitting. I had to stop after each sermon and think about what he was saying, and how it applies to today and to my life.

A collection of recordings of Martin Luther King’s sermons brought me into a Baptist Church, with a Baptist minister. It is a privilege to hear s voice that changed the world.Each sermon is introduced by a leader in their own right who describe the sermon and put it in context.Dr. King was 100% Baptist minister and 100% radical thinker. Just wow!Also, reading Ibram Kendo’s Stamped from the Beginning adds a mile of depth to these.

A collection of MLK sermons. They are good, but not as striking as the sermons collected in Strength To Love. Even though those were given before 1963, and these have several after that year (and 4 are common to the 2 books), the earlier sermons have a freshness (and, amazingly, a timeliness for now) that seems more lacking in these. Also, King used chunks of rhetoric over and over, and that repetition becomes evident in these sermons. It is not surprising, since he became so much busier in his

this was a man who called christains to live out the faith of true Christianity. here was a man who was willing to call us out on our passive allowance on injustice to the poor class as well as the racial divide of the times.this is a great book that helps us to remember what it was to live in the tension of unjustice and unfair abuse and the hypocrisy of the church.this was a man who called the chritians to arms and to demand action when the time was right. This was a man who taught us we have

MLK sermons to understand MLKIn these sermons Martin Luther King, Jr reveals a man who loved the Church, was dedicated to its mission and learned to love ALL of man from the shepherding of Christ in his life. He understood the importance, the imperative, to all creation that evil be resisted peacefully. Trusting and patiently waiting on justice from God, he knew the vision God had given him on the mountain top, the promised land of peace, might not be his to visit but tried to point it out to al...

Dr. King was a profound thinker except when it came to religion. I should out myself as one of the formerly religious who has little tolerance for dogma. Do not give me claims based on faith. I want facts and when facts do not exist to support a conclusion, give me the logic that does.This book prints sermons, note, SERMONS, from throughout Dr. King’s too short career. As the afterword says, one can see his religious beliefs evolve, or I think I can, because god references become fewer, King use...

This is a CD of some sermons. Makes you think about just how great of a preacher he was in addition to the popular speeches. Interesting to listen to how most of the issues he is speaking on are just as relevant today.

"Love is the only way!"

I have read this collection of sermons each year since my senior seminar course at Christian Theological Seminary with Dr. Rufus Burrows, Jr.

This is a book not to speed read but to mull over and digest. There are golden nuggets throughout this book from MLK and others he quoted. I particularly liked this one - That within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude towards individuals.

As I read “A Knock at Midnight,” a collection of Dr. King’s sermons,I felt as if he was speaking to us now in 2017, and not in the 1950s and 1960s. Dr. King was a preacher first and foremost, but he actively engaged with the social issues of his time: Jim Crow, racism, poverty, Vietnam war. America and the world was experiencing deep upheaval when Dr. King preached these sermons, and he didn’t shy away from speaking to the social issues of his time with a gospel lens. The things people of King’s...

What a shame to lose such a smart man. Dr. King was able to take really deep concepts and make them accessable (not a 2nd grade word -- not sure of the spelling). Nevertheless, this is not a book to read in one sitting. I had to stop after each sermon and think about what he was saying, and how it applies to today and to my life. I read this book, not listened to the audio version. It would be awesome to listen to the recorded versions from which the trascripts were made. The one drawback of the...

perhaps one of the best purchases i've ever made -- need to get the CD version (i have audio). if anyone needs proof that mlk jr. was prophetic, listen.

King was truly an amazing man with a heart that has so much to teach. His politcally and spiritually relevant messages of his time are applicable today.

I did the audiobook version of this and was amazed and pleasantly surprised to find that it was a series of King's actual voice and sermons and not someone else reading them. Each one of the sermons had an introduction by another minister (often someone who knew King). It was fascinating to see how his civil rights work backed up his sermons and vice versa.There are some issues with some of the recordings (understandable because they are old and in some cases, the recording equipment probably wa...

Thiswas really hard to rate for me. On one hand I admire MLK. I admire him for his accomplishments. I admire him for the cause for which he fought. I admire him as a leader. I admire him in any number of ways and I wanted to give this collection of speeches five stars because of my admiration for MLK. On the other hand, these speeches are not just speeches. They are sermons and sermons promote religion. When someone pushes religion on me I feel like my intelligence is being insulted. I consider

I wanted to know specifically how Pastor King spoke to a divided and bruised church, specifically to believers, at a time when society at large was navigating a years-long brutal justice movement, an unjust war abroad, poverty domestically and elsewhere, gluttony of wealth and comforts in contrast, an apathetic or divided church, a time of 'revolutions' or 'midnight' as he called it. It's different reading Dr. MLK vs. hearing (found myself missing hearing his oration..), but the collection still...

An excellent collection of Dr. King's sermons and in his own words from his own mouth! awesome! This book does not hurt in any way his activism it does in some major ways undermine his position in modern history. I mean to say that he shows that unlike the nearly deified figure we all learned about in history class, or the moral saint that we have been always shown of Dr. King is not so true as just another flawed human with his own vices and his own shortcomings. The major of which is true for

A Collection of sermons that MLK gave throughout the years of the civil rights movement. The topics often mentioned include the Vietnam war, poverty, morality, and civil rights. “Knock at midnight,” “American Dream,” and “Drum Major Instinct” were a favorite and throughly thought-provoking. I was surprised with how MLK incorporated psychology, sociology and even economics into his sermons. It made the sermons feel more modern and intellectual.

So many quotes from Dr. King are thrown and tossed about, but I have never actually read or heard from the beginning any of his sermons. I loved reading these printed versions of some of his sermons. I could actually hear the cadence in my head as I read through some beautifully put together thoughts. It was also amazing to read in several of his sermons his thoughts on his death...which he didn't know would come so quickly.