Posted on 08/07/2017 8:06:06 PM PDT by TigerClaws
And join the astronaut program too!
And join the astronaut program too!
I love God’s word and handle it with care, so I’m annoyed to no end when some God-hating unbeliever shouts, “Judge not lest ye be judged.” They gallingly use it as a refuge to cover all manner of perversion and sin.
Preach Spirit Cooking with Night Train Express and Boons Farm....
"Judge not, that ye be not judged."
And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
Hey ripvanwinkle, you must have been asleep since 1992.......there is enough evidence to hang (literally) this Jezabel of a woman ten times over......you're no christian if you can't see that.
Wow, I successfully decoded your acronym on the first try!
The female clergy who contributed to the book seemed particularly preoccupied with the strong women of the Bible:
Just read my mothers notes regarding Esther
“Don’t underestimate the value of one person. How thru Mordechai, He persuaded Esther to try to spare her people, Risking her own life, she appeared to the King and rescued her own people. Thru the providence of God, she was directed.”
Note the flavor?
Clearly looking for ways to fleece. It’s all she knows.
I agree with fair, Godly and charitable. But go too far that direction and you will end up in the last days apostasy - which is were much of the US church is right now.
There are two side of the sword. Mercy and judgement. Everyone now wants to ignore Judgement.
“God uses the good ones. The bad ones use God.”
Jimmy Stewart - Fool’s Parade
There was one bible verse I will always remember as I believed it the moment I heard it in Sunday school and have ever since. The story about the sick man on a litter whose friends carried him to the roof and removed the tiles, lowered him to Jesus, and Jesus healed him.
And my favorite stained glass window, Jesus with sheep and was a lamb. Maybe it is supposed to represent the 23rd Psalm.
My experience growing up the the UMC in southern Illinois was a positive one. We had a wonderful community. People I knew there fifty years ago, I still count as friends. But as I grew older and saw the alternatives in the UMC as either social-Gospel liberalism or a kind of saccharine evangelicalism, I had to move on, too. My father remained in the UMC until his recent death. His funeral was traditional and uplifting and the people of his church were very kind and supportive. There are still a lot of good people there. Nearly thirty years ago I converted to the Orthodox Church, and have had nearly no contacts with Methodism or other Protestantism since then, so now it seems kind of alien to me. I have changed, but Protestantism has changed some too. Gone is a more traditional order of worship, which I liked, and the old hymns have been replaced by more contemporary music. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but they just aren’t my cup of tea.
Your photo is of a Good Shepherd window. That is very common in older Methodist churches. My grandparents attended what had been a German Methodist Church in Ellis Grove, IL. They had a nice one there.
Oh my, my mind draws a blank about my father's funeral. He remarried a Catholic widow but didn't go to mass. I only remember a couple things about his burial, guess I was in kind of shock.
Yes, I miss the more traditional liturgy, and there was a wonderful choir. Now I don't know what it is, more of a social outreach. A good friend has faithfully attended every Sunday after she lost her husband to leukemia many years ago.
Two of my closest friends (one a Presbyterian) one a Methodist. Shortly before the latter died, she worked in a big funeral home and was very good with people. Anyway, I asked her what about her faith we had as children? She was into reincarnation and don't know what else. her father was a Freemason as was my Presbyterian friend's.
I wouldn't have thought I could ever become religious, but I take it very seriously.
From some contacts I have with mainline Protestants, I understand there is a certain amount of home-brew theology and syncretism among some church members, not to mention the clergy. A friend of mine served as a UMC pastor in Connecticut for some years, and he said his people had little understanding of the Bible, weren’t much interested in learning about it, and had some unique ideas about things. But, as I said, there are still some good people there. My friend is conservative. My father’s last two pastors, both of them women, very positively impressed me, both for their faithfulness to traditional Christian theology and their pastoral manner. They serve in southern Illinois. Whether they could get away with traditional views in other places, such as Chicago, is highly questionable.
The story is, you see, that one night Hildy called desperately to Pres Trump, saying that she heard Judge Ruth Nader Ginsberg had just died and she desperately wanted to take her place... Trump pondered a moment and replied, ‘I guess it is ok with me but you would have to clear it with the funeral home.’
Bloody Kindle... Ruth B-a-d-e-r Ginsberg!
LOL! That’s a keeper! . . . Hope you are well.
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