Posted on 01/26/2025 11:37:54 PM PST by Cronos
Millions of Christians in churches around the world heard the same passage on Sunday from the Gospel of Luke. In it, Jesus declares his intentions “to proclaim good news to the poor,” as he speaks to people gathered in a synagogue in Nazareth.
At Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration in Dallas, the passage felt particularly appropriate this week, though it was chosen years ago as part of a three-year cycle of Bible readings.
“It’s Jesus 101,” said Michelle Williams, 55, a parishioner at the church.
It was the first Sunday since a fellow Episcopalian, Bishop Mariann E. Budde, delivered a sermon that many observers heard as an echo of passages like the one from Luke. Speaking at a prayer service at the National Cathedral in Washington the day after President Trump’s inauguration, she faced the president and made a direct plea: “Have mercy.”
...Across the country, mainline churchgoers proudly shared clips of Bishop Budde’s sermon online and made plans to read her books with their book clubs. Priests and pastors discussed the sermon in church newsletters and in intimate conversations with their members.
Pastor Jonathan Barker of Grace Lutheran Church in Kenosha, Wis., said he felt a thrill seeing the clips of the sermon spread across his social media feeds, popping up from Lutheran colleagues, parishioners and people he would not have guessed to be supportive.
His congregation is part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and it was active in mobilizing support for Jacob Blake, a Black man shot by a white police officer in Kenosha in 2020. Some 50 years ago, at the height of mainline strength, the Grace congregation had about 1,500 people. Now it has about 40.
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The Psycho Bishop.
The far-left is trying to get some fake religion. Anything to make the slow among us love them.
So this Budde woman is now the Joan of Arc of the Trump Derangement Syndrome crowd? Bully for her.
The “cheap ticket” to appear on The View...
The bulimic harridan.
Again, people finding someone to tickle their ears and make them feel good instead of truly whole heartedly seeking God and His answers for them. Now she is their new idol to worship while they still have sin or unresolved issue.
"Blessed are the groomers and kiddie-castrators..."
Appalling!
Regards,
The world loves their own, and hates God. You’re on the wrong side of the ledger, bishop Budde.
CC
Gallego is the Mexican Drug Cartel’s ticket to the U.S. House of Representatives. Thank you Far-Left Arizona.
perhaps you may not know, but episcopalians are not protestants, and protestants are not catholics.
A few minutes in a monastery or convent will quite quickly disabuse you of your misapprehensions and errors...
More like thanks to far-left cheating despot Katie Hobbs.
ELCAs give Lutherans a bad name. Heretics.
Ya don’t think all those killed and physically harmed were in FEAR? How abt the 320,00 kids missing by the biden admin. Don’t ya think THEY are living in FEAR? How abt some MERCY for they you ignorant selfish fool? SHE is no PASTOR.
Across the country, mainline churchgoers proudly shared clips of Bishop Budde’s sermon online and made plans to read her books with their book clubs. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Budde is a psychopomp, like Obama......a woke scourge in the face of God.She will destroy America if she can.
BUdde cannot seperate good from evil. She works against the Bible:
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Leviticus 18:22 ~ You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
Leviticus 20:13 ~ If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
Jude 1:7 ~ Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
Romans 1:26-28 ~ For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
Genesis 2:24 - Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Mark 10:6-9 ~ But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 - Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Timothy 1:8-11 ESV - Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.
1 Corinthians 7:2 - But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
I sure hope you guys can get rid of her the next time she comes up for election. Her and her girlfiend, Mayes.
The GAY SECT!
The mainline Protestant churches have been the farthest to the Left for decades.
40% if those leaving mainstream Protestant churches say they can no longer stomach the liberal elites that have taken over positions of power in the church hierarchy.
Those people are literally killing their own churches.
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