#Reformed church

[annagracewood]

Merry Christmas, y'all and a prayer request and family update

Merry Christmas, y’all. God surely is gracious, isn’t He? This year has been one of tremendous ups and downs. My heart has broken a thousand times this year as some of my children denied their faith. I beg your prayers for them. However, in midst of such pain, the Lord has reconciled a daughter and myself. This is such a huge thing, something I’d prayed for for so many years. She’s a Christian…

[andreaspadaccini-andrea]

SPANISH WINE

It has been a month since I started attending a Reformed confessional church. It has been a breath of fresh air to me. There is much rest in accepting my humanity—that I'm a sinner, falling short of God's standard, of God's holiness. I can genuinely feel the care of the people especially my friends who are helping me to transition.

We drink Spanish wine for the communion of the saints. The wine is bitter than other wines. As I heard if you are a wine enthusiast, you do not pick this one or you whined, wordplay intended. But as for me as long as I'm at the table of Cristo Rey, I know that any wine—no matter how bitter—is still a grace from God that I can enjoy the serving of His love through reminding myself of Jesus' sweet sacrifice for my salvation. I can enjoy God through thick and thin, in health and sickness, in better or worse, in smooth and rough roads of my pilgrimage.

Me, internally, as I'm typing those words above thinking of how grateful I am with my friends from the church where I'm transitioning to who encourages me and are willing to genuinely lend their ears to listen to me as I share my struggles in life, and me having the confidence that they will not use it to their advantage:

[battleforgodstruth]

How to Truly Hear God's Word - Pastor Patrick Hines Sermon

James 1:21-25New American Standard Bible21 Therefore, ridding yourselves of all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls. 22 But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not just hearers who deceive themselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a…

[world-v-you-blog]

The Tapestry of History, 12 – The Rise of the West, 7 – The Reformation, 3

(Image credit – Wikipedia – St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, Paris 1572 – by François Dubois) The Protestant Reformation of the 16th Century is one of the pivotal events of Western History, and thereby of World History. The geopolitical state of the world in the 21st Century is, in part, attributable to the consequences of the division of Europe into Roman Catholic and Protestant nation-states…

[thoughts-of-caly]

protestants the entire month of october:

[housederiva]

You guys know how I keep ragging on BioWare for *gestures vaguely*? Guess who the Black Divine is

King you could be changing the system from the top down at the drop of a hat why are you starting at the bottom

[apilgrimpassingby]

Roman Catholics and Orthodox have got to knock it off with "Protestants have brutalist corporate churches". A particular modern strain of Protestantism has hideous modern churches. It's a depressingly common strain, and arguably the dominant one in America, but it's either ignorant or dishonest to pretend as though all Protestants have ugly churches.

Behold:

Clockwise from top left:

St. Peter's Church, Geneva, canton of Geneva, Switzerland (Swiss Reformed)

Barnes Methodist Church, London, England, UK (Methodist)

Dutch Reformed Church, Newbury, New York state, USA (Dutch Reformed)

St. Jude's Church, Glasgow, Scotland, UK (Presbyterian)

[crippledanarchy]

If you're in the US and you're concerned about Palestine, leave US Jews alone, and start asking your local evangelist how much money their christian church sends annually to support the genocide being committed by the state of israel.

[famousinuniverse]

St. Paul's Church, Strasbourg, France: The St. Paul's Church of Strasbourg is a major Gothic Revival architecture building and one of the landmarks of the city of Strasbourg, in Alsace, France. Wikipedia

[canisalbus]

as a 16th century clergyman what does machete think of the printing press

I think by the time he was born the printing press had been around for almost a century and a half, so I'd reckon the society as a whole was largely past it's initial novelty and controversy. Machete himself is bookish and nerdy, he's very invested in gathering knowledge about various topics and trying to piece together a good picture of how the world works. Getting access to reading material would be a lot harder if every book was still copied individually by hand. His standards are pretty high though, there's a lot of poorly translated, shoddily printed and flimsily bound books around and he's prone to scrunching his nose at them.

[secretariatess]

I've said it before and I'll say it again.

I think it's a dang shame that we'll put celebration of the day the church split over the day the church was formed.

It's not that I think what the Catholic Church was doing at the time that instigated the Reformation was good or in no need of correction, but rather that God's church was split and created factions upon factions where we now squabble with each other. We went from a united church to one with many denominations that fight with each other about which ones are the "true" ones, or which denominations are "wrong."

Don't get me wrong, I like being Nazarene. I like what the Nazarene church offers, and I agree with Nazarene theology. And it wouldn't be possible without the Reformation. I don't agree with Catholic theology. I think there are many things where they are off base. But there are still those in the Catholic church who are Christian, and I'm not going to write them off because of the Protestant/Catholic chasm.

The Reformation was necessary. I'm not sure it was necessary to celebrate. The Church split. It split. The Church, where Jesus said that the world would know us by the love we have for each other, split.

To put it another way: God's family split. How is that not heartbreaking? I am under no delusion that everyone was working in harmony previously, but still . . . .

When Martin Luther nailed the 95 theses up, his goal was not to split the church. It was to correct the church. But he had lobbed a hand grenade at a festering rot, gone too far deep to accept correction and instead desired to keep its corruption.

There's a lesson in the Reformation. There was good in the Reformation. I do believe God worked in the Reformation. But I feel like the lesson and warning of the Reformation is lost when we celebrate "no longer being Catholic!"

The Reformation should be sobering.

And if we are going to celebrate a formation of the church, why are we putting so much stock on the Reformation, and ignoring the Pentecost, where God came down again?

What is the purpose in celebrating the Reformation, and what is the excuse in forgetting Pentecost?

[rabbitprayer]

No desire to convert to catholicism but the desire to kind of pretend that no schisms ever happened.

[battleforgodstruth]

Woe To You When All Men Speak Well Of You - Pastor Patrick Hines #shorts

Woe To You When All Men Speak Well Of You – Pastor Patrick Hines #shorts ▶️Pastor Patrick Hines has recently had a brand new book published, called, “Earth’s Foundational History – Part 1: Genesis Chapters 1 Through 5.” (Paperback – May 4, 2023) https://cutt.ly/16RCeZ0 These two books are also available on Amazon. All proceeds go directly to Pastor Hines: ▶️Am I Right With God?: The Gospel,…

[wronghands1]

[thoughts-of-caly]

5 guys, 5 nights at freddys, 5 seconds of summer, what about the 5 solas of the protestant reformation (sola fide, sola gratia, sola scriptura, solo christo, soli deo gloria)

[mirrorofliterature]

'you could just leave the jedi'

ah yes, because leaving all you've ever know with no external support network is so easy (heavy sarcasm on that one)

'the jedi weren't government agents, they were just peacekeepers uwu'

now (@padmestrilogy may want to help me out with this one) but the jedi is absolutely nothing like the UN (like. tf). carrying out the will of a government like being generals in that government's army? you're an agent of government.

anyway staunch pro jedi fans learn how to read stories within their broader societal context and between the lines and not take everything on screen or, god forbid, said by george lucas as absolute gospel, okay?