Lutheran Ping!
Alleluia! Christ is Risen!
Posted on 04/13/2016 6:22:36 AM PDT by C19fan
A vote against God’s word cannot go unnoticed by The Creator.
It must be heartbreaking to folks of good faith.
Freegards
I’m assuming you’re in Norway? Wow, thanks for that information. At least we know that there is a differentiation between cultural “identities” of “Christian” and those who believe. That’s a good thing.
And another one bites the dust (i.e., abandons Christian moral teaching, which is part and parcel of the faith).
...and Christian denominations wonder why the evangelical churches are so popular right now when various Methodist, Presbyterian, and Lutheran groups are making these announcements.
“Cafeteria Christianity” will give you popular opinion among the masses, but what is popular opinion when you cannot fill the seats?
The left’s “long march through the institutions” is all but complete. Churches were the last institutions offering some resistance but they are succumbing too.
Gramcsi is smiling.
The Muslims in Norway are not going to like that.
There is nothing Lutheran about those who belong to The Church of What’s Happenin’ Now, and that includes the ELCA in the U.S. Luther is rolling over in his grave.
In the US, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod remains sola scriptura and true to the Apostolic faith.
Most likely you’d get some kind of DIY blessing which nobody claims is “Marriage,” except it sorta kinda is, wink wink. A nice little sentimental sacrilege. Wasn’t the music wonderful? And the flowers: Padraig arranged them himself.
Alleluia! Christ is Risen!
The Orthodox Church has also stood firm against the gay agenda, viewing it as one of the most debased manifestation of lives overtaken by the passion of lust.
Tonight many Orthodox prayed the Great Canon of Repentance by St. Andrew of Crete, which includes these pointed petitions:
David, the forefather of God, once sinned doubly, pierced with the arrow of adultery and the spear of murder. But thou, my soul, art more gravely sick than he, for worse than any acts are the impulses of thy will.
Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me.
David once joined sin to sin, adding murder to fornication; yet then he showed at once a twofold repentance. But thou, my soul, hast done worse things than he, yet thou hast not repented before God.
Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me.
David once composed a hymn, setting forth, as in an icon, the action he had done; and he condemned it, crying: ‘Have mercy upon me, for against Thee only have I sinned, O God of all. Do Thou cleanse me.’
Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me.
When the Ark was being carried in a cart and the ox stumbled, Uzzah did no more than touch it, but the wrath of God smote him. O my soul, flee from his presumption and respect with reverence the things of God.
Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me.
Thou hast heard of Absalom, and how he rebelled against nature; thou knowest of the unholy deeds by which he defiled his father David’s bed. Yet thou hast followed him in his passionate and sensual desires.
Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me.
Thy free dignity, O my soul, thou hast subjected to thy body; for thou hast found in the enemy another Ahitophel, and hast agreed to all his counsels. But Christ Himself has brought them to nothing and saved thee from them all.
Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me.
Solomon the wonderful, who was full of the grace of wisdom, once did evil in the sight of Heaven and turned away from God. Thou hast become like him, my soul, by thine accursed life.
Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me.
Carried away by sensual passions, he defiled himself. Alas! The lover of wisdom became a lover of harlots and a stranger to God. And thou, my soul, in mind hast imitated him through thy shameful desires.
Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me.
O my soul, thou hast rivaled Rehoboam, who paid no attention to his father’s counselors, and Jeroboam, that evil servant and renegade of old. But flee from their example and cry to God: I have sinned, take pity on me.
Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me.
Alas, my soul! Thou hast rivaled Ahab in guilt. Thou hast become a dwelling-place of fleshly defilements and a shameful vessel of the passions. But groan from the depths of thy heart, and confess thy sins to God.
Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me
Leni
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