I mourn with the Jewish people. I will be silent remembering the murder of innocents in Pittsburgh. I stretch my hands to our Common Help.
We died in our places of worship and we are still hearing the lies of a cowardly nation’s pride in bigotry.
We died in our places of worship and the words of the heartless hold little comfort in the face of this evil.
O that my head were a fountain to feed my eyes in sympathy and grief.
Thursday October 25 2018
I am sure you have heard the scriptures read in public – in church- and wondered what happened, due to the reader’s many stumbles? Or perhaps you’ve heard an assembly reading at the same time from 5 or six different English translations. When Paul encouraged to Timothy to give attention to reading he was not talking about private reading or study. In those days the public reading of the Scriptures was essential so that the entire body of witness could be heard by all. This was no different from Jewish practice. The learned read and the unlearned listened (and committed to memory).
Listening, reading and writing are intended to elicit thinking not mere haste to say “Been there, done that!”. Any hurry to click “got it” ends in disasters, such as answering questions that do not exist or something like making majors of minors
No founding apostle made his mark apart from accurately handling the message (orally delivered by Yeshua and later committed to writing).
Consequently there is no New Testament hymn to ignorance or death. God wanted us literate and hospitable. Attentive listeners become expert reciters, and in due course reciters become readers and exegetes themselves. So let us read our Bibles in pursuit of Christ because once we have drunk the living water our search changes. We will have changed.
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Is this is the world of nationalist passion?
Translations can help communicators as well as muck things up. People with large audiences who post verses need to show the proper care.
Every place where we think we see some action we turn it into a command. We love being told what to do so we turn up every rock hoping to say we have applied the message.
1 Peter 5:7 does not tell us to
“cast all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you”.
Peter’s command is humble yourselves.
Casting all our anxieties… is the context in which we need to stay humble.
1 Peter 5:7 gets posted as a verse (which it is!) when in effect it is a mother isolated from its baby. In context
1 Peter 5:6-7
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting (having thrown once for all) all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
We can see how easily people fall for glitter. The apostle calls for continued humility in accordance with the fact that we have already thrown all our anxieties on the Saviour.
The throwing actiion is easily illustrated because the word for throw/cast appears in one other place: the Lord’s donkey ride into Zion.
ERRIPTO – I throw on
To be sure, verses seem necessary, but verses are not always complete thoughts. Verse by verse comments amount to little understanding if one ignores the clear sentence breaks in the Holy Books.
I hope this verse had not tripped you up into a thinking a commandment-keeping response was in order. If it had that is a concern you can happily lay on the Saviour
Every word out of the evangelical lodge (1600 Pennsylvania’s) smells like
Most messages out of the executive mansion in the US elicit a “what?” that is either incredulous or disgustingly shocking. The big “what” today is a white house orange threat to all that is good and decent and generous. The press office has been forcing whots out of the assembled press by the unrestrained use of whoppers (I hope Sarah Sanders is not a drug addict. How does she sleep after lying like she does?) Lies elicit a what and another whopper from the lying bigot st the top, hencevrhe revolving door of:
whopper
what! (Naaaah)
(bigger) Whopper
If you call often for an investigation of America’s investigators you are a likely to be a semiliterate rabble-rousing pussy-grabbing lying nationalist puppet of Russia who lives in the United States.
“Trust needs to be earned in human relationships” is a common saying that applies to government and corporations. Trusting a bigot is a bonfire big enough to bring the great to its knees.
Do not China and Russia have the whot (white house orange threat) on his knees cowardly denying what everyone knows? The whot is a thieving businessman who is about to face the music.
All that glitters is not gold. The brother in church may be a walking dead. Nationalists ought to their pay taxes and stop threatening the poor and non-pink skin people. A lot of modern religiosity and political platforms is dreadful emptiness. It is not so surprising that people thought they were safe flying in hydrogen-filled balloons. The Hindenburg disaster is happening to jurisdictions around the world.
Inoculate yourself with God’s word.
Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. Luke 8:12
Let’s find out who has a hand inside Pat Robertson. That Christ denier will say anything like a ventriloquist-puppet invention. He might as well be a mannequin. All the cute sounding nonsense he has spewed over what has passed for Christian lifestyle does not even measure up as common nobility. Vox.com reports that Pat Robertson was doubling down on his support for a corrupt arms deal and we take note of his silence on the freedom of people like journalists who know how to discover and publish dirt on America’s paper heroes.
Evangelical leader chooses silence over brutal murder to keep arms deal with a despotic government
I have watched this preacher turn into a deadly fly, pollinating the airwaves with the lowest possible interpretations of the gospel. For a person assumed to be informed Pat just showed the world how much of a mindless coward he is.
I have seen him chasing due and go to heaven immediately, miracles, pontificating about morality based on Sinai and a host of Christless vanities including Holy Land ventures, capital punishment, pursuing the absurdity of (America as) a Christian nation, and a so-called alliance with the Jewish State.
This thief has bought the right to blow a lot of hot air publicly, and the law affords him the freedom to call a bigot like potus45 great, and now he sides with weapons corruption and a brutal murder.
Every observer without a paycheck to consider must be wondering how many missing people are like Jamal: journalists themselves or neighbours who know where the bodies of people who have information about the illegitimate children, the crimes and misdemeanors of those in power?
Pat Robertson and his cronies had better get this piece straight. Noone in government today who has blood on their hands can demand any respect of Believers. At least not this believer. David was not allowed to build the temple for God because he had been involved in bloodshed – not just the murder of a man’s wife but all bloodshed.
Does not Pat Robertson know what the Islamic law says about people who are infidels and how people who misbehave or protest are treated? Does he not know that the Ten Commandments also demands the same thing for Sabbath violation and gluttony (evangelicals, like Pat, say the 1st day is now the seventh).
Pat’s poor aim (sin) is a huge problem. There is too much Christ denial in this evaluation of government business.
Murder in supposedly secret places
He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless; Psalms 10:8
The wickedness of Simeon and Levi
O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. Genesis 49:6
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