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Why ancient Christian forms of prayer speak so powerfully to the modern soul

Liturgical worship is what I miss most since leaving TEC (not finding a fit for my family in ACNA) and attending a UMC church. I’m not sure what to do. I worship (not as regularly as I should) on my own using Morning and Evening Prayer (sometimes Compline) from the 1662 and 1928 BCPs, but I long to worship in person. I want to chant Psalms with the choir of believers and enjoy quiet contemplative worship. That doesn’t appear to be on offering in the UMC (I kinda knew it going in.., that is part of the reason that I left after my Wesley Foundation small group broke up after graduate school).

#umc #methodist #christianity #church #churchmanship #anglicanism #liturgy

'What is a woman?' is not the real question. Transgenderism is a gateway to transhumanism

Churches need to be preparing people to resist transhumanism It isn’t about people pretending to be another gender, non-gender, or species; it is about what creation is meant to be and what people are meant to be.

#christianity #transhuman #trans

There is no “heaven” and “earth” as we’ve commonly come to understand them; harps and clouds on the one hand and unimportant physical matter

We are called to be part of Christ redeeming of the Earth. When the church fails to bring the light (looking at you #TEC), it is failing in its purpose. Point others toward light and life and not toward darkness and death. Heaven is what is more real than what sin has made the Earth. Christ is coming to judge the Earth and the peoples with His Truth, and Christ Truth transforms and makes all things new.

This was too funny not to share. This is how I felt at some points before I had enough and left TEC. and yes, the water women was also there

#episcopal church #inquisition #Youtube

Ding dong! The witch is dead. Praise God and pass the ammunition. Now the work needs to begin twofold:

1) overturning elective abortion policies in all of the states and

2) a national mourning, confession of sin, and reconciliation for ever condoning this murder.

The fight for unborn life isn’t over. There was an important win for federalism, but this moves the fight to the individual states.

#roe vs. wade #supreme court #right to life

A world of independent nations is the only alternative to universalist ideologies seeking to impose a homogenizing, locality-destroying impe

I agree. We now need a national political party that would agree with this platform.

#National conservatism

A few months ago, with a measure of frustration, I observed a social media debate between two Anglicans, one of whom is a staunch Calvinist,

The BCP expounds upon the gospel doctrine of assurance. The eucharist is an assurance of God’s grace. The doctrine addresses that good works are a sign to assure us of God’s grace even though we sinners can never do enough works to earn salvation by our own merit.

#assurance #bcp 1928 #christianity

When the church speaks words, things actually happen.

Here on earth, we may be tempted to believe the lie that the only reality is division and hatred, destruction and death. But the resurrectio

#Hans Boersma

One of the biggest challenges for people looking at the Anglican tradition today is that there is such a wide variety of visual, liturgical,

Interesting post on Anglicanism today. I’m attending a Methodist (UMC) parish at the moment, but it is way to low church for my taste. It offers traditionalish hymns, has fun youth choirs and groups for my kids, and has W.O. (Important for some members of my family). Overall, my ideal place of worship would be a ‘yellow’ to ‘yellow-orange’ parish that recognized W.O. Barring that, I’m stuck where I’m currently attending. I’m planning to join an Adult Sunday School class in the fall… maybe I will feel more belonging (if not a churchmanship home) once I make more friends/acquaintances.

#anglicanism #churchmanship #methodist #church

Liberals, not conservatives, have truly melded church and state.

This is the number one reason why I’ve become a refugee from the Episcopal Church. The assertion by parishioners (and the bishop) that all people that voted for President Trump were racists was the last straw for me. I’d felt alienated from the parish for years before finally leaving.

#TEC #politicized church

Liberalism has fallen on hard times. What follows here will not be an anti-liberal rant or a celebration of its demise. In fact, an importan

Traditional Christians must answer postmodernism with truth and love. When confronted with their power theories remind them that not everything is about power, and Christians acknowledge that communication with the divine has occurred… that real truth exists.

#postmodernism #christianity

An interesting discussion of the Abraham-Isaac story from Genesis 22. Did Abraham miss the point (partially miss the point)? Was the test really not about Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice Isaac but about Abraham’s knowledge of God and his relationship with his son? Thoughts?

‎Show Mere Fidelity, Ep ‘Abraham’s Silence,’ with Dr. J. Richard Middleton - Apr 12, 2022

#Mere Fidelity #Genesis #Bible #christianity

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

“Truth doesn’t care, reality doesn’t care about your ideology. Truth is unconcerned by whatever you think someone else’s interests are. It persists,” said Distance.

#objective truth #wokeism #wokal distance

Nearly every meaningful decision made in the last generation has been for the worse. Nobody has time for another one.

I (mostly) agree. Things were definitely better legally (and culturally) in the 70s (except disco… that sucked).

#Reactionary

Pete Buttigieg’s political donors were awarded city contracts worth millions after donating money to his campaign for mayor of South Bend, I

Secretary of Transportation Buttigieg is so caught up in a pay-to-play scandal. These are the same things that would get my employer banned from Federal contracts. Honk Honk!

#the regime #pete buttigieg #scandal #honk honk

MENIFEE, CA - Ultra-spiritual Christian Lyle Hombre spent the entire worship service internally criticizing the worship songs this Sunday, e

Though certainly this is a caricature, I undoubtedly have suffered from this point of view (or similar).

Here’s an update on the church discernment journey. As you may recall, my family left the Episcopal Church last year when they stopped having services (since resumed) and the bishop and many parishioners attacked fellow parishioners with unfounded and politically motivated accusations of white supremacy. In January 2021, we began attending an Anglican Church in North America parish nearby. Though we liked the people of the parish, there were theological and practical reasons that we discerned that we could not join them as members: 1) they did not have a youth program that could engage my daughter, and 2) we could not join a church that opposed full ministry participation for women.

We have begun attending a large United Methodist Church that fulfilled many of the family’s needs. The church has great youth programs for my children, including multiple children/youth choirs. The sermons are at least as good as previously attended churches, but they are long. The hymns are generally good and otherwise acceptable. The biggest drawbacks are the general lack of liturgy, infrequent Eucharist (with grape juice), a lack of contemplative opportunities, modern inclusive language, lack of service music (other than the Gloria Patri), and the uncertainty about the split in the UMC (We’re in the suburbs of Atlanta, so it could go either way).

I think we are staying here, but any ideas about a liturgical church with women in ministry but not run by the woke and recognizing that Christian marriage is only between one man and one woman? I’m basically an old high church Anglican (not Anglocatholic).

#church #episcopal #methodist #anglicans

‎Show The Symbolic World, Ep 215 - Weaponized Compassion - Jan 18, 2022

Interesting podcast from Symbolic World discussing that anti-Christ system of weaponized compassion. The prime biblical example given was Judas, Mary, and the perfume with which she anointed Jesus’ feet. The current example given of weaponized compassion are COVID restrictions. The system uses things that Christians should desire, compassion, to coerce behavior that gives the system power.

#symbolic world #antichrist #tyranny

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