#Sunday preaching

[artcallednaturalviews]

My Circulation

My see in circulation would be

Just to watch Olympian’s

Break Dancing

None of rumpt y chump friends

Rose up cause now it’s dangerous

No fucking ones

After Baldwin dismissal

Ear charge blew

Fall down quick

I see me standing

I felt it

Quicker than a bullet

Play out jams and pajamas

No ties for choking out

Or paying off still breathing

Shooter down, paid none like

Storm weather

My circumstances

My circumstantial

My feed us both

Human meat, he has deformed

Right ear, right here near

In the cochlea

Pressures causing me deaf

In cold & heat waves

Bling my eyesight

From the drone sights

Manufactured wood turned

Into splinters from vast west borderlands

So phat but fat in obnoxious

From to here through 2035

Medical problemas in mind making run towards flushing toilets, child educations, gun toting killers never brought in stage

Like bullet in a rust gun

The target hit

If I was an actor

The white faces should have made it

To overall control you

My see in circulation would be

Just to watch Olympian’s

Break Dancing

None of rumpt y chump friends

Rose up cause now it’s dangerous

No fucking ones

The LB existing

Nappy dirt Fred

My see in circulation would be

Just to watch Olympian’s

Break Dancing

None of rumpt y chump friends

Rose up cause now it’s dangerous

No fucking ones

El ignore yo circulation

Only English

Give your accents speak English

As I’m still understanding

You

All

I heard of blood orange

But prop blood falls quicker than

Hemoglobin’s

Too soon for Halloween

Your blood dries in likes of actors swiped in fake, that’s capsule blew before I knew

“He never kept surprise”

Video from front states!

Backers behind paid for up front in cameras

Not like punk ass Reagan

Sorry conglomerates seeking CEO higher pay

President doesn’t pay well

For dictator ship

But here’s to your come back, Trump

Ex former gunk

Your junk was ex outed by stormy weather

Wether you are rump trump T

Down on the grounds

When coach says falls after Pom Pom’s

Raise a fist

Coached and well rehearsed

From my circulations and sight seeing’s

After Covid country shutdowns

Who took advantage of?

Feel the suppressing heat

Become casualty

For it again again and after again

You voted,

Trump

Fuck youu, too!

In a circulation always spinning

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Sit pleased

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The pages black and white highlighted

Fuck youu, too!

In a circulation always spinning

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Sit pleased

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Redacted

The pages black and white highlighted

Blood Orange colors

No rhymes

Sweet to taste movie

No copper additives in life likes

All of paid shooter dead

Ponzi pacifier pansy

In death

[46hasu]

Please give Sunday proper justice when depicting his religious imagery. Penacony is inspired from 1950s to 1970s America, so the man isn't Roman Catholic, he's the classic American Evangelist

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

I realize that the internet is a breeding ground for attitude problems and people being little jerks to each other but it drives me crazy when I see Christians acting holier than thou and like their specific opinion is the only proper opinion and anyone who disagrees is a heretic.

[thegreenleavesofspringinsunlight]

Actually no you know what, I'm still thinking about last Sunday's sermon. In like the least three minutes, the pastor managed to pounce on my absolute biggest insecurity as a Christian, but more on that anon.

The whole sermon was supposed to be about young men, which I expected to feel like being dragged backwards by the hair through beds of hot coals embedded with broken glass (you know, like usual) because I happen to have boys that I know I'm not raising well. And there was a certain amount of squirming, but he also interspersed a few how-to's in with his "Here's what your Happy Christian Family (tm) should look like! 😃😃 But don't worry if it doesn't, you can always get there 😁" (which always leaves me screaming "HOW! How do I get from HERE to THERE" but I digress) which was a nice change of pace.

But he kept going off on tangents that were just... encouragement? And admittedly I don't know how much I would've gotten out of it if I hadn't been praying about exactly that the previous night. But one of the passages that came to me right after I was done praying (or while I still was kinda?) was Joseph on that throne in Egypt looking at his brothers and saying "What you meant for evil God intended for good" and then the pastor the next morning was like "and Joseph was there in Egypt and was telling his brothers what you meant for evil God meant for good" and I was all *Leonardo di Caprio pointing meme*

BUT ANYWAY in the last couple of minutes he was like

"So the charge is simply: believe the blessing. He's putting the blessing upon you. He's blessing you; He knows all about you. And He's blessing you. He's pleased with you.* So, that's the charge. Believe the blessing. Receive the blessing, with believing hearts. Now - the Lord bless you and keep you, the Lord make His face shine upon you, and be gracious unto you. The Lord lift up His countenance upon you, and grant you His peace. And amen."

*me, still blubbering over "He's pleased with you" (I have a really, really, really hard time with that one. What do you MEAN He's pleased with me, that's impossible, have you seen me?!?! I am nothing but a failure and a disaster top to bottom.

Anyway.)

[splickedylit]

Domestic Diplomacy III proceeds apace

(==>Jade: hear the holy and hilarious word)

Gamzee is in the next room over, sitting on a big squishy-looking pillow in a kind of cross-legged sprawl that makes it really clear how his legs don’t bend in the same ways human legs do.  You’re delighted to realize, for the first time, that troll feet are padded like their palms.  You hadn’t thought about it—the chitin claws cover almost the whole toe the same way they cover pretty much the whole finger, and they don’t seem to spread a whole lot, so it’s easy for your brain to read them as hoof-like and move on.  But there’s little beans down there!

Alien contact really is just the gift that keeps on giving.  What a good day already.

Karkat is occupied bustling and hustling around greeting people like the bossiest little mother hen—(And take off those, the fucking foot-clothes, my hive is clean, don’t you put shit and dirt on the ground!  Put them here, by the, tss, the, damn…in-and-out place!)—so you stroll over into the other room and lower yourself onto the floor to watch whatever it is Gamzee’s looking at.

You kind of thought maybe he’d started movie night early, but he doesn’t seem to be watching a movie.  He has something that looks a lot like a normal human tablet propped up on a table, and he’s watching what looks like a live feed of a huge room full of other trolls, with a guy at the front talking.

“<—(A sentence subject you must have missed) is the funniest (implied:warning-shot-level danger) motherfucking make-mess the (something)s could do to make want,>” says the troll at the front of the crowd, succinctly proving to you that Gamzee is not the only troll who seems to think more verbs is better and sentence order is a pointless invention.  The guy talking doesn’t sound exactly the same, but he stretches his hums and chirrs and growls out and piles his clicks together in a really similar way.  “<We’re all (body parts?) up in the air, down up our (whole/entire) motherfucking horns in dirt.  (Some kind of noun with the food-descriptor ‘sweet’ in it) on our (body part again?  It sounds like a compound word of ‘face’, sort of) and that isn’t a motherfucking mistake.  It’s no motherfucking mistake, brothers!”

Gamzee says some kind of emphatic imperative verb—in a polite, subordinate inflection, which is pretty unusual for him.  On the screen, a few other people do the same thing, mostly saying words you don’t know—one of them you hear says “<Say it, motherfucker!>” and another one says “<Yes, brother, yes!>” with the heaviest subordinate inflection you’ve ever heard.  Somebody else honks a bike horn.

[amplifyme]

Doing a rewatch of Midnight Mass 'cause it's that time of year. This series had so, so many epic monologues, but this remains one of my favorites. Mike Flanagan will own my heart forever simply on the power of this one scene, that hit me like a sledgehammer because it was like he reached into my head, snatched up my thoughts about organized religion, and put them on the screen for everyone to see.

[seraphidae]

freak shit/work talk dont mind me

[theycallmejeezycreezy]

🏳️‍🌈June🏳️‍🌈 2nd:

Sunday Affirmations #1

Today’s subject will be self acceptance in honor of pride month!

Especially if you come from a religious household, acceptance of your own identity can be very difficult. Whether is be your own religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or gender identity. And, of course, it doesn’t help at all when you are rejected when you come out.

So here’s my advice: Surround yourself with people who accept you. Trust me, this will help!! Those who left you when you came out never deserved you in the first place, but those who stand by you when you come out to them are usually the good ones.

[buggie-hagen]

Minor Festival Homily: Michael and All Angels (9/29/23)

Primary Text | John 7:53-8:11

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Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,

          Today’s passage from John teaches us the difference between God’s judgment and God’s mercy. This passage is traditionally called “the woman caught in adultery.” The scribes and the Pharisees drag the woman to Jesus not because they actually care about what she had done. They bring her so they can trap Jesus and discredit him. So they ask him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” (John 8:4-5). They think, “Aha! Now we have him! We have him caught no matter if he says ‘Yes’ or ‘No.’” If Jesus says, “Yes, stone her” then they’ve won their case against him—he will contradict himself. If Jesus says, “No, don’t stone her” they can accuse him of teaching against Moses. What none of them saw coming was what he would say to them. First, he said nothing. But when they pressed him more on the matter, he said, “Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her” (John 8:7). In this way he blows them all out of the water.

          Let’s consider what Jesus did here. He does not deny the wrongdoing of the woman caught in adultery. Adultery is no little sin. It destroys the divine institution of marriage. It tears families apart. It unsettles any little ones involved affecting them the rest of their lives. Adultery causes black mold to grow on the trust necessary for such intimate relationships. God’s judgment in the law of Moses for such a sin is death by stoning. Which, Jesus does not deny. God’s judgment is unbending. It condemns outright and totally—that is the function of the law. But Jesus says here only the one without sin can be the one to stone her. In saying that Jesus slings the mud right back at the Pharisees. For they realize that they do not qualify to throw stones—they too, have their sins. Turns out, it was not they who caught Jesus, but Jesus who caught them. So they leave one by one so that Jesus and the woman are left alone to themselves.  Then, Jesus said to the woman, “‘Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?’ She said, ‘No one, Lord.’ And Jesus said, ‘Neither do I condemn you. Go your way, and from now on do not sin again’” (John 8:10-11). Now we begin to see the difference between God’s judgment and God’s mercy. The kingdom of Jesus is filled only with sinners, actual sinners. But forgiven sinners. Luther wrote on this passage, “God’s mercy does not deal with insignificant sins, half-sins, imaginary sins, or sins that are no sins, but real sins that are felt. For example, not to fear God, not to trust Him and believe in Him, not to love one’s neighbor, not to pray, not to hear preaching, not to keep the commandments of Moses, any violation of God’s command, something that cannot be ignored—these call for a genuine, not a meaningless, forgiveness.” According to the law this woman caught stands condemned in her adultery. According to the gospel, this woman is forgiven. 

The Pharisees walked away because as sinful as adultery is, Jesus has held up the mirror, showing them that they are not so holy and pure as they think they are—they do not have a better standing than this woman they brought to shame. When it comes to sin, we are all on equal ground and equally condemned. Let us not think that we ourselves are pure and holy on the basis of what we do or do not do. In his teaching on adultery Jesus does not lower the severity of the sixth commandment on adultery—he illuminates its scope by saying anyone who even gazes at another with lust in their heart has committed adultery. So he has caught us in the act. But like the woman caught in adultery, you and I are upheld by the kingdom of the gospel—where there is no longer punishment or condemnation. The slogan of Christ’s kingdom is this: “I forgive you your sin; for in My kingdom no one is without forgiveness” (from Luther). Dear people, it is not holy, pure, and good people who are admitted to the kingdom. Those he sends far away. It is the adulterers and any who know the depth of their sin, these are the ones he brings in. And so he has brought you in by the hearing of the word, that first word that puts to death, and that second word that raises you from the dead—whatever your sin Jesus says to you, “I do not condemn you. I do not condemn you.”

[larissa-the-scribe]

Thought-trail sponsored by: my local church

So in the as-yet-unnamed world of the Santa Juliana Files there are Eldritch Beings (general name for them still pending) that were originally instituted as personified forces to take part in running the universe, but these got corrupted in the Fall and became Horrors. Some of them, like the sun, are still benevolent.

But like. in the context of the "madness" that usually comes from regular humans interracting with them, it actually fits so well in a biblical perspective. You already have the "fear of the Lord," which, yes, I know, is more about our attitude and response and respect for God more than actual fear, BUT you do have several instances documented of peoples' reactions to meeting God in even a fraction of His power (for example, Isaiah), or just having a divine vision sent through a messenger (Daniel), and the extreme reactions involved in that.

Which will be fun and fascinating in terms of worldbuilding and contrast--the overwhelming power of God and his servants bringing both hurt and comfort and ultimately Good, versus the overwhelming force of the Beings who bring pain and darkness just by their presence. A madness that heals versus a madness that is nothing more than that.

also not saying that we already live in a magical world that has eldritch forces in play, but also not saying that we're not

[vulturevanity]

Today was. Bad.

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

XO is actually a fascinating song from a Christian perspective but idk if I can figure out how to put it into words

[unproduciblesmackdown]

already thinking "and by 'religious' really i mean 'christian'" re: how the term "religion" is not really useful when it's largely like, from a christian perspective, what is considered "equivalent" of christianity, see: perhaps a "rival"/obstacle to some person or group being considered christian....and even if not thinking about converting anyone, resulting in some at best misinterpretation / misrepresentation based on framing it through/as [element of christianity] and limiting of any more accurate language

like how tumblr recommends me a post about someone thinking about "religion" in general and concluding that it's Weird and perhaps Wrong for anyone who is a "true believer" in their religion(tm) to Not be proselytizing / trying to Convert everyone. like yeah why isn't everyone being an evangelical christian, they ought to be, benevolently informing all those around them that they're going to hell, otherwise. don't see any problem with this conclusion, or that someone's getting antisemitic in the notes already in agreement, or that That's Not How This Works and you don't just know how All "Religion" works based on considering it to be an alternate version of christianity (which in itself doesn't All work like that either)

[welcometohighwater]

holy hell, quite a sermon for a preacher in a baptist church in the south to preach this morning

[professorgtnt]

美國有一位大製片家，他常拍宗教電影。 新聞記者問他：［拍聖經故事的動機何在？〕他說：［小的時候在家鄉，有一次星期日大風雪，進到禮拜堂，只有我一個人，就是一個小孩子坐在那兒，再沒有第二個人了。但是講台那個牧師照往常一樣，從開始到末了，唱詩，禱告，報告，講道，祝福，按步就班完全一樣，一點不含糊，而且面對一個小孩子講了一篇很生動很長的道。這是不容易的，如果聚會人少，往往講道就不起勁，這是一般的通病，要坐滿了人，講道才有精神。但那天這個孩子完全受感動，他說：〔那個牧師講道的時候，就像有千萬人坐在那裏一樣，那麼用勁講。）這個大製片家，在幼稚的心靈裏面，烙下了一個非常良好的印象，所以當他從事電影事業，就決心要為神做點事情，這就是他拍宗教片的動機。

[kpg-3cclesia-center]

Through this sermon, Apostle Simba revealed how to truly live in the Fire of God, emphasizing that we have access to this fire through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. He also shared profound insights on how the fire of God can destroy the works of the devil and drive out demonic forces from your life. 🔥💥