Lutheran (EL
* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.
Be rooted in Christ!
I hope I'm not overloading y'all with too many pings, but there is a lot going on this week.
SmithL
* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.
Be rooted in Christ!
I hope I'm not overloading y'all with too many pings, but there is a lot going on this week.
SmithL
To defend the ELCA’s move away from Scripture in favor of political correctness, and their new mantra of “voting on Scripture,” the various ELCA synod bishops tell congregations about the seven verses of Scripture that deal with homosexuality being sinful. However, those seven are to be ignored in favor of being neighborly and inclusive. Incredible!
Hmmm. The NALC this week votes to organize a new Lutheran Church body. Yet Mark Hanson, head of the ELCA makes a statement imploring against “rushing to judgment and closing off discussion.”. Since the congregations involving themselves with the NALC have already voted to sever ties with the ELCA, it would seem Hanson is addressing dissenters within his own synod. Methinks there must be a great deal of dissension going on within the ELCA at this time...
Christianity has been strenghtened and improved everytime honest folowers have called the leadership on corruption charges, even when it meant starting a new brand. What Martin Luther did five centuries earlier is just being repeated today.
Praying for all the courageous men and women at the conference and in the world, that we may stand and stay standing in the Truth that sets us free.
19 The world would love you as one of its own if you belonged to it, but you are no longer part of the world. I chose you to come out of the world, so it hates you. 20 Do you remember what I told you? ‘A slave is not greater than the master.’ Since they persecuted me, naturally they will persecute you. And if they had listened to me, they would listen to you. 21 They will do all this to you because of me, for they have rejected the One who sent me . . .
26 “But I will send you the Advocate[b]—the Spirit of truth. He will come to you from the Father and will testify all about me. John 15
Praying for mercy for self-satisfied and self-directed souls who have yet to know the release and joy of Jesus’ grace poured out in his precious blood for sinners such as I.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ6LAdMTDLY
What grace is mine that He who dwells in endless light
Called through the night to find my distant soul
And from His scars poured mercy that would plead for me
That I might live and in His name be known
So I will go wherever He is calling me
I lose my life to find my life in Him
I give my all to gain the hope that never dies
I bow my heart, take up my cross, and follow Him . . . .