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Cindy<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BodyOfChrist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BodyOfChrist</span></a> 📯💒📣</p><p>Preaching &amp; Teaching the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gospel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gospel</span></a> message; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheGoodNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheGoodNews</span></a> of salvation in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChristJesus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChristJesus</span></a> isn't reserved for the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Easter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Easter</span></a> season only .... it is the Very heart &amp; essence of the entire <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bible</span></a> </p><p>YES, AMEN🙌 ~ our Lord <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JESUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JESUS</span></a> is ALWAYS in season!!!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/REPENTANCE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>REPENTANCE</span></a> 😔🖤 ☦<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SALVATION" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SALVATION</span></a> 🐏💖☦<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/inJesusname" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inJesusname</span></a> ☦💜🛐<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChristianFaith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChristianFaith</span></a> 🤺🛡 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChristianLiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChristianLiving</span></a></p>
Bedfordview Methodist Church<p>"The stone the builders rejected<br>has become the cornerstone"</p><p>Psalm 118:22 <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Bible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bible</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/JesusChrist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JesusChrist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Salvation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Salvation</span></a></p>
Bedfordview Methodist Church<p>"The wolf and the lamb will feed together,<br>and the lion will eat straw like the ox,<br>and dust will be the serpent’s food.<br>They will neither harm nor destroy<br>on all my holy mountain"</p><p>Isaiah 65:25 <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Bible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bible</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Prophecy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Prophecy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Salvation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Salvation</span></a></p>
A Guy Named Brian (he/him)<p>“‘These things occurred so that the scripture might be fulfilled’: may we who observe this Good Friday be renewed and deepened in our faith in Christ Crucified, the One who is ‘God from God’, in whom God’s saving purposes, set forth in the Scriptures of the Old Testament, proclaimed in the Scriptures of the New Testament, are fulfilled, ‘for us and for our salvation.’”</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoodFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoodFriday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChristCrucified" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChristCrucified</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Salvation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Salvation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HolyScripture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HolyScripture</span></a> </p><p><a href="http://laudablepractice.blogspot.com/2025/04/that-scripture-might-be-fulfilled-good.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">laudablepractice.blogspot.com/</span><span class="invisible">2025/04/that-scripture-might-be-fulfilled-good.html</span></a></p>
Bedfordview Methodist Church<p>"What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ"</p><p>Philippians 3:8 <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Bible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bible</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/JesusChrist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JesusChrist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/salvation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>salvation</span></a></p>
SoloRunStudio<p>This week, my list of Starfinder Society Society scenarios I have personal experience with and have fond memories of.</p><p><a href="https://solorunstudio.com/2025/04/06/my-top-sfs-scenarios/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">solorunstudio.com/2025/04/06/m</span><span class="invisible">y-top-sfs-scenarios/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Paizo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paizo</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Starfinder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Starfinder</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/StarfinderSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StarfinderSociety</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/StarfinderScenario" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StarfinderScenario</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/SFS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SFS</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/SFSscenario" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SFSscenario</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Zo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zo</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Salvation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Salvation</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Izalraan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Izalraan</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Rasheen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rasheen</span></a></p>
jp<p>“Salvation” is like a very short, though equally shallow, episode of Intervention. In that show, all that a junkie needs to agree to go to rehab is to be given a theoretical ultimatum — never mind that most real-life addicts would put it to the test before they made up their minds. Meanwhile, this Cranberries song thinks you can just tell a junkie to say no to drugs and they will listen and comply.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Salvation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Salvation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cranberries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cranberries</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rock</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Song" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Song</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lyrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lyrics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Analysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Analysis</span></a> <br><a href="https://songreading.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/salvation/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">songreading.wordpress.com/2025</span><span class="invisible">/03/25/salvation/</span></a></p>
Caritas Christi Urget Nos<p><strong>The Third Sunday in Lent, Cycle C Readings</strong></p><p><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/032325-YearC.cfm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Today’s readings</a></p><p>God is extremely patient when it comes to extending mercy. That’s what Jesus is talking about in this rather odd parable. I have to admit that I’m no gardener: I’m just not patient enough for that! So I needed to do a little digging (no pun intended) to get a real sense of where this parable is going. I discovered that there are a couple of things we should all know before we get into this little story. First of all, fig trees actually did take three years to bear fruit. During those three years, of course, they would need to be nourished and watered and pruned and tended. It was a lot of work, so when those three years of hard work were up, you better believe the farmer certainly wanted fig newtons on his table! And the second piece of background is that, since the days of the prophet Micah, the fig tree has been a symbol for the nation of Israel, and Jesus’ hearers would have known that. So when they hear of a fruitless fig tree, it was a little bit of an accusation. Maybe more than a little bit.</p><p>Conventional wisdom is that if the tree doesn’t bear fruit after three years of labor and throwing resources at it, you cut it down and plant a new one; why exhaust the nutrients of the soil? And if you’re an impatient gardener like me, why exhaust the gardener?! But this gardener is a patient one; he plans to give it another year and some extra TLC in hopes that it will bear fruit.</p><p>So here’s the important take-away: God is not like Father Pat; he’s the patient gardener! And we, the heirs to the promise to Israel, if we are found unfruitful, our Lord gives us extra time and TLC in order that we might have time to repent, take up the Gospel, and bear fruit for the kingdom of God. That’s kind of what Lent is all about.</p><p>But we have to remember: we don’t get forever; if we still don’t bear fruit when the end comes, then we will have lost the opportunity to be friends of God, and once cut down in death, we don’t have time to get serious about it. The time for repentance is now. As Saint Paul told the Corinthians, and us, on Ash Wednesday: “Behold, now is a very acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.” The time for us to receive and share God’s grace is now. The time for us to live justly and work for the kingdom is now. The time for us to stop bickering and be kind to one another is now. The time to work on our prayer life is now. Because we don’t know that there will be tomorrow; we can never be presumptuous of God’s mercy and grace.</p><p>The consolation, though is this: we don’t have to do it alone. The Psalmist today sings that our God is kind and merciful: We get the TLC that our Gardener offers; the grace of God and the gifts of the Holy Spirit. We can trust in the Lord God, our great “I AM,” to come to us and lead us out of captivity to sin just as he was preparing to do for the Israelites in the first reading today. We can put our trust in God’s mercy. We are always offered the grace of exodus, all we have to do is get started on the journey and begin once again to bear the fruit of our relationship with Christ.</p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://father.mulcahy.net/tag/lent/" target="_blank">#Lent</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://father.mulcahy.net/tag/mercy/" target="_blank">#mercy</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://father.mulcahy.net/tag/repentance/" target="_blank">#repentance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://father.mulcahy.net/tag/salvation/" target="_blank">#salvation</a></p>
Caritas Christi Urget Nos<p><strong>Saturday of the Second Week in Lent</strong></p><p><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/032225.cfm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Today’s readings</a></p><p>That Jesus would welcome sinners and eat with them is obviously a huge deal. In those days, it was thought that associating with sinners made one complicit in the sin, or at least showed approval of the sin; so the audacity of such an action was sinful in and of itself, at least as far as the religious leadership was concerned. But as an act of mercy, it’s grace unlike anything else. And the significance for us is understandable. Jesus <em>still</em> welcomes sinners and eats with them. If that were not true, none of us would be here for the Eucharist today, would we?</p><p>Something that often gets overlooked in this very familiar parable is that both of the sons are sinful. It’s obvious that the youngest is sinful: taking half of his inheritance before his father is even in the grave, living a life of dissipation and sexual excess, using up all that money in a short time, content to eat among the swine which no good Jew would even think about touching, and finding himself very, very broken. But the so-called good son is sinful too. On his brother’s return, he refuses to go into the house to welcome him back, and takes his father to task for showing mercy and love. In the Gospel, failure to forgive is itself sinful.</p><p>Both sons are sinful in their own way. Both need the father’s love and mercy and forgiveness. And both receive it. Far from the way a proper Jewish father would act, he runs out to meet both sons where they are. Protocol would have them come to him, and not he to them. But he comes out twice: once to meet the younger son who is on the way back to him, and once to meet his older son who refuses to come in.</p><p>There is often discussion on where we find ourselves in this very familiar parable. Are we the sinful son? Are we the good son? Are we the father? It probably depends on the day – we might be like all of them at one time or another. I don’t think that’s what matters here. What matters is that Jesus welcomes sinners and eats with them – in our case, feeding us with the finest bread and wine which are of course his very own Body and Blood. Without this grace, we would have no life – salvation would only be a pipe dream. But because this grace is very real, we have the opportunity to gather here at the Table of the Lord, and one day, please God, at the great heavenly banquet. Praise God today for his forgiveness, mercy and grace. Praise God that he welcomes sinners and eats with them.</p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://father.mulcahy.net/tag/prodigal-son/" target="_blank">#ProdigalSon</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://father.mulcahy.net/tag/salvation/" target="_blank">#salvation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://father.mulcahy.net/tag/sinners/" target="_blank">#sinners</a></p>
Caritas Christi Urget Nos<p><strong>Friday of the Second Week in Lent</strong></p><p><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/032125.cfm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Today’s readings</a></p><p>In the readings this week, I’ve been noticing a lot of foreshadowing. How many of you know what foreshadowing is? It’s a literary device that you seen in the early part of some stories, that gives us a hint at the end of the story. Usually you don’t notice the foreshadowing until you get to the end. I think we see foreshadowing in both of today’s readings. These readings remind us of what Lent is all about. During Lent, we remember that our Lord, who came down from heaven to earth to save us from our sins and re-connect us with the love of God, paid the price for our many sins by laying down his own life.</p><p>Back when I was much younger, for my birthday my family took me to see the musical <em>Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat</em>. Our drama club here at Saint Mary’s performed that musical several years ago. The story goes that Joseph’s jealous brothers ended up selling him into slavery in Egypt, but that in Egypt he became a powerful and talented government official who ended up saving many people, including his own brothers, from starvation during a famine.</p><p>In the story, you can see many parallels between Joseph and Jesus. Joseph was sold into slavery in Egypt; Jesus came to take away our slavery to sin. Joseph’s own brothers plotted to kill him; Jesus was killed by us, his brothers and sisters, by our sins. Joseph fed the known world at that time by storing up grain for the day of famine; Jesus fed the multitudes, and us, with the bread that comes down from heaven. Joseph was sold for twenty pieces of silver; Judas was given thirty pieces of silver to hand Jesus over to death. Joseph, in many ways, was a foreshadowing of Jesus.</p><p>In our Gospel today, Jesus tells a parable which is a foreshadowing of what will soon happen to him. The vineyard owner, God the Father, is looking for the fruit of the harvest. That harvest should be our faith. Instead, the people of old beat and murdered the prophets who came to give God’s word, just as the messengers of the vineyard owner were beaten and murdered. And finally, when God, the vineyard owner, sends his own Son, he was killed too.</p><p>The people of Jesus’ day missed the foreshadowing, they missed the parallels, they didn’t get that God was continually reaching out to them to gather them in faith. But we know the story, all of it, and we can’t be like them. We have to be ready to hear the truth and act on it, to see Jesus in other people and respond to him; to hear the Word he speaks to us and live that Word in faith each day.</p><p>God loved us so much that he gave us his only begotten Son; we have to treasure that gift and let it make us new people. That’s what Lent is all about, friends. Lent means “springtime,” and it has to see new growth in us, so that we can be a vineyard of faith to give joy to the world.</p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://father.mulcahy.net/tag/foreshadowing/" target="_blank">#foreshadowing</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://father.mulcahy.net/tag/prophecy/" target="_blank">#prophecy</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://father.mulcahy.net/tag/salvation/" target="_blank">#salvation</a></p>
Carmelite Quotes<p><strong>St. Joseph Novena 2025, Day 7:&nbsp;Happiness</strong></p><p><strong>SCRIPTURE READING</strong><br><em>Sirach 26:3–4</em></p><p>A good wife is a great blessing;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;she will be granted among the blessings of the man who fears the Lord.<br>Whether rich or poor, his heart is content,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and at all times his face is cheerful.</p><p><strong>READING</strong><br><em>RP6 6r</em></p><p>It is not poverty that we flee. Happiness does not consist in having wealth, but in humbly submitting your will to that of God, who gives each person what He knows to be necessary for the salvation of his soul.</p><p><strong>NOVENA PRAYER</strong></p><p>Remember, O most pure spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary,<br>my great protector, Saint Joseph, <br>that no one ever had recourse to your protection, <br>or implored your aid without obtaining relief. <br>Confiding therefore in your goodness, I come before you. <br>Do not turn down my petitions, foster father of the Redeemer, <br>but graciously receive them.</p><p><em>(Mention your prayer requests)</em></p><p>Our Father… Hail Mary… Glory Be…</p><p>V./ Pray for us, holy Father St. Joseph<br>R./ That we may become worthy of the promises of Christ.</p><p>Father,<br>you entrusted our Savior and his holy Mother<br>to the care of St. Joseph.<br>By the help of his prayers<br>may your Church continue to serve its Lord, Jesus Christ,<br>who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,<br>God for ever and ever.<br>Amen.</p> <p>All scripture references in this novena are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America as accessed from the&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/" target="_blank">Bible Gateway website</a>.</p><p>of Lisieux, T 2008,&nbsp;<em>The Plays of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux: “Pious Recreations”</em>, translated from the French by Conroy S and Dwyer D J, <a href="https://www.icspublications.org/products/the-plays-of-st-therese-of-lisieux-pious-recreations" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ICS Publications</a>, Washington, DC.</p><blockquote><p><em>Don’t become discouraged and give up prayer</em>, says St. John of the Cross. We offer varying novenas to <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://carmelitequotes.blog/?s=novena+to+our+lady+of+mount+carmel" target="_blank">Our Lady of Mount Carmel</a>, as well as novenas to <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://carmelitequotes.blog/?s=novena+joseph" target="_blank">St. Joseph</a>, <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://carmelitequotes.blog/?s=st+teresa+novena+2019" target="_blank">St. Teresa of Avila</a>, <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://carmelitequotes.blog/?s=novena+saint+john+of+the+cross" target="_blank">St. John of the Cross</a>, <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://carmelitequotes.blog/?s=novena+th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se" target="_blank">St. Thérèse of Lisieux</a>, <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://carmelitequotes.blog/?s=novena+louis+z%C3%A9lie" target="_blank">Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin</a>, <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://carmelitequotes.blog/?s=novena+elizabeth" target="_blank">St. Elizabeth of the Trinity</a>, and <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://carmelitequotes.blog/?s=%22St%20Edith%20Stein%20Novena%22" target="_blank">St. Edith Stein</a>. </p><p><a href="https://carmelitequotes.blog/our-novenas/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Let us unite in prayer</a></p></blockquote> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://carmelitequotes.blog/tag/gods-will/" target="_blank">#GodSWill</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://carmelitequotes.blog/tag/inspiration/" target="_blank">#inspiration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://carmelitequotes.blog/tag/novena/" target="_blank">#novena</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://carmelitequotes.blog/tag/pious-recreation/" target="_blank">#PiousRecreation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://carmelitequotes.blog/tag/poverty/" target="_blank">#poverty</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://carmelitequotes.blog/tag/prayer/" target="_blank">#prayer</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://carmelitequotes.blog/tag/refugees/" target="_blank">#refugees</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://carmelitequotes.blog/tag/salvation/" target="_blank">#salvation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://carmelitequotes.blog/tag/st-joseph/" target="_blank">#StJoseph</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://carmelitequotes.blog/tag/st-therese-of-lisieux/" target="_blank">#StThereseOfLisieux</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://carmelitequotes.blog/tag/wealth/" target="_blank">#wealth</a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/ingersoll-robert-green/6136/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Robert Ingersoll</b></a></p><blockquote>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I do not say, and I do not believe, that Christians are as bad as their creeds. In spite of church and dogma, there have been millions and millions of men and women true to the loftiest and most generous promptings of the human heart. They have been true to their convictions, and, with a self-denial and fortitude excelled by none, have labored and suffered for the salvation of men. Imbued with the spirit of self-sacrifice, believing that by personal effort they could rescue at least a few souls from the infinite shadow of hell, they have cheerfully endured every hardship and scorned every danger.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And yet, notwithstanding all this, they believed that honest error was a crime. They knew that the Bible so declared, and they believed that all unbelievers would be eternally lost. They believed that religion was of God, and all heresy of the devil. They killed heretics in defense of their own souls and the souls of their children. They killed them because, according to their idea, they were the enemies of God, and because the Bible teaches that the blood of the unbeliever is a most acceptable sacrifice to heaven.</blockquote><p><b>Robert Green Ingersoll</b> (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator<br>Lecture (1874-05-03), “Heretics and Heresies,” Free Religious Society, Kingsbury Hall, Chicago</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/ingersoll-robert-green/6136/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christianity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=Christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christians</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=damnation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>damnation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=error" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>error</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=evangelism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evangelism</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=execution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>execution</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=heresy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>heresy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=holywar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>holywar</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=infidels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infidels</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=mission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mission</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=morality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>morality</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=religiousintolerance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religiousintolerance</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=religiouspersecution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religiouspersecution</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=selfsacrifice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>selfsacrifice</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=salvation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>salvation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=unbelievers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unbelievers</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=ingersoll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ingersoll</span></a></p>
Peter "Poly" Paterson<p>Saint Patrick: The Musical<br><a href="https://youtu.be/wHr02U1OYVk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/wHr02U1OYVk</a><br><br>Everything you wanted to know about Saint Patrick in song.<br>Even Bono of U2 gets a word in.<br><br><a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/saintpatrick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaintPatrick</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/thegospel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheGospel</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/salvation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Salvation</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/bono" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bono</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/u2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>U2</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/nipple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nipple</span></a> (it's mentioned)</p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/caird-john/75562/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>John Caird</b></a></p><blockquote>It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the Kingdom of Heaven, but the fact that riches have him.</blockquote><p><b>John Caird</b> (1820-1898) Scottish theologian, academic, preacher<br>(Attributed)</p> <p>Sourcing, extensive notes: <a href="https://wist.info/caird-john/75562/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/caird-john/75562/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=avarice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>avarice</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=greed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>greed</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=materialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>materialism</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>money</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=possession" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>possession</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=riches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>riches</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=salvation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>salvation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=wealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wealth</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=worldliness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>worldliness</span></a></p>
Bedfordview Methodist Church<p>"If you declare with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." Romans 10:9 <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Bible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bible</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/JesusChrist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JesusChrist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/salvation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>salvation</span></a></p>
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Wisdom in Space<p>The incompetence of miscreants is the salvation of mankind.<br> -- Will Saletan</p><p>⬆ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wisdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wisdom</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Quotes</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WillSaletan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WillSaletan</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Incompetence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Incompetence</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Malevolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Malevolence</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Salvation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Salvation</span></a></p><p>⬇ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Panorama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Panorama</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Morning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Morning</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mists</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fogbow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fogbow</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LakeSantaFe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LakeSantaFe</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Florida</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/ingersoll-robert-green/5678/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Ingersoll</b></a></p><blockquote>Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a church deems a certain belief essential to salvation, just so long it will kill and burn if it has the power. Why should the church pity a man whom her God hates? Why should she show mercy to a kind and noble heretic whom her God will burn in eternal fire? Why should a Christian be better than his God?</blockquote><p><b>Robert Green Ingersoll</b> (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator<br>Lecture (1874-05-03), “Heretics and Heresies,” Free Religious Society, Kingsbury Hall, Chicago</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/ingersoll-robert-green/5678/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=afterlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>afterlife</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=belief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>belief</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=church" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>church</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=churchandstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>churchandstate</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=divinejudgment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>divinejudgment</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=divinepunishment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>divinepunishment</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=hell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hell</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=heresy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>heresy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=orthodoxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orthodoxy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=salvation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>salvation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=theocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theocracy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=damnation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>damnation</span></a></p>
Light for the Last Days<p>The meaning of ‘dispensation’</p><p>I take a ‘dispensational interpretation’ of the Bible which is a method of interpreting history that divides God’s work and His purposes towards mankind into different periods of time in which there are different administrations according to His will.<br>Tony Pearce</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/churchleadership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>churchleadership</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dispensation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dispensation</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/jesus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jesus</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Messiah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Messiah</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/salvation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>salvation</span></a></p><p><a href="https://lightforthelastdays.co.uk/articles/christians-issues/the-meaning-of-dispensation/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lightforthelastdays.co.uk/arti</span><span class="invisible">cles/christians-issues/the-meaning-of-dispensation/</span></a></p>
Lisa J. Warner / Lisa Luv<p>💛👑🍀☘️❇️🌼🌻🧘🏿🧘🏻‍♀️🧘🏾‍♂️💚💚🛐🌏🌐✝️👑🕊️❤️‍🔥🤍💚☘️🍀☘️❇️🌼🌻🧘🏿🧘🏻‍♀️🧘🏾‍♂️*Create in me a pure heart!*O God!*Renew an unwavering spirit within me!*Do not cast me from your presence!*Do not take your Holy Spirit from me!*Restore to me the joy of your salvation!*Sustain me with a willing spirit!🛐🌏🌐✝️👑🕊️❤️‍🔥🤍💚🍀☘️🍀☘️❇️🌼🌻🧘🏿🧘🏻‍♀️🧘🏾‍♂️💚💛👑🍀☘️❇️🌼🌻🧘🏿🧘🏻‍♀️🧘🏾‍♂️💚</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wednesday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Devotional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Devotional</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Love" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Love</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jesus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jesus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Christ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christ</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Holy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Holy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Spirit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spirit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Believe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Believe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Faith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Faith</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hope</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Peace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Peace</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Heart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Heart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Salvation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Salvation</span></a></p>