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#christian

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Greg Johnson

Henry Highland Garnett, NY Presbyterian minister, summarizes slavery to Congress. It is theft, pollution of the innocent, incest, murder, blasphemy, defiance of the laws of God. It descecrates the family in mulitple ways. It feeds prejudice.

Today, we have many people seeking to rehabilitate the reputation of slavery, who also champion “family values”.

How can you seek out wickedness in your life and speak out for those abused by it?

HENRY HIGHLAND GARNET (1815-1882) MEMORIAL DISCOURSE; DELIVERED IN THE HALL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, ON SABBATH, FEBRUARY 12, 1865. "It [slavery] is the highly concentrated essence of all conceivable wickedness. Theft, robbery, pollution, unbridled passion, incest, cruelty, cold-blooded murder, blasphemy, and defiance of the laws of God. It teaches children to disregard parental authority. It tears down the marriage altar, and tramples its sacred ashes under its feet. It creates and nourishes polygamy. It feeds and pampers its hateful handmaid, prejudice."
#christian#helping#abolition
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Peter Nimmo

It's strange to many people that the horrific death by #crucifixion of #Jesus is so important to #Christian belief. Here are some of my thoughts on this, in a #sermon for Palm/Passion Sunday in 2019. It's based on the #lectionary texts for this coming Sunday
#PalmSunday
#PassionSunday
peterwnimmo.co.uk/2022/04/07/t

Rev Peter W Nimmo · The Strange Power of the Cross: a sermon for Palm/Passion Sunday
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Greg Johnson

Edward Norris Kirk, Presbyterian missionary, says we must love as the Good Samaritan (Luke 10) did. Be like Christ, seek the happiness of those whose character you hate. If that’s too much to ask, why would God allow you in heaven?

I often see the “without holiness” (Heb 12:14) applied to purity, but Kirk applies to love of enemy.

Today we’re asked to acquiese to cruetly cuz victim might be an enemy.

How can you seek others’ happiness?
#christian #hearhim #workwoke #beatitudes #scriptures

EDWARD NORRIS KIRK (1802-1874) Lectures on the Parables of our Saviour "You must love as this Samaritan did; love all men; so that like God, you can seek their happiness, while you hate their characters; so that like Christ, you can sacrifice yourself for your enemies. You say: this is requiring too much; then it is requiring too much on your part to ask God to take you to heaven; for this is holiness, and, without holiness, no man can see the Lord."
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lobster

As a practicing Pagan weirdo, 🥰

I have been involved in #Magick and the #occult as long as I have been a #Christian...

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I won't be paying the Trump Tariff. Too poor to understand what money is...
I might need a miracle unknown to most Christians. The coin in a fish miracle...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin_in_

Have a great day, everyone 🦞

web.archive.orgTarotTarot (Cards of Wisdom)
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Greg Johnson

A.B. Simpson, C&MA founder, on Job 31:17, “if I have eaten my morsel alone”. Simpson repeats the curse of Job, and warns those of us who would be content with eating a morsel alone. He says we are more selfish than brute creatures, and our selfishness is worse than inhuman. Brutes themselves would be ashamed of our brutality. Ducks feed fish.

Would this fly in the modern pulpit?

How can you consider how you eat your morsel alone?

ALBERT BENJAMIN SIMPSON (1843-1919) "The Curse of Selfishness" "O ye who are eating your morsel alone, who are hoarding the gold of earth or the Gospel of heaven while others are perishing, the very creatures that you despise will some day rise in judgment and condemn you for a selfishness which is worse than inhuman, nay, worse than brutal, because the very brutes themselves would be ashamed of it."
#christian#harmony#workhard
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