Sages of the New Covenant
When Christianity was introduced in India by Apostle Thomas, he retained the cultural identity among the Thomasine Christians.But when Christianity was once again introduced to India in a big way by the European missionaries, it posed a threat to the cultural identity of the people of India.
"Dr E Stanley Jones found Indian ashrams a suitable indigenous forum for reflection and utilized Hindu philosophy and culture for presenting the gospel."
- Global Dictionary of Theology: A Resource for the Worldwide Church (page 393) by
William A. Dyrness, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen & Juan Francisco Martinez
Third World Missionary Conference at Tambaram in December 1938, which sowed the seeds for forming the World Council of Churches gave greater emphasis on the indigenisation of the Christian Missions. During the plenary, the whole gathering passed a resolution that in future young missionaries from the West might be sent to an Indian Ashram for preliminary testing and training, before being sent out to work on their own.
After the fall of Gwalior on 20 June 1858, the British East India Company consolidated its position and the British Queen Victoria became the Empress of India with the "Proclamation Durbar of Delhi” on January1, 1877. Though Queen Victoria’s Proclamation guaranteed impartial protection of the law for all the people of different Faiths and no interference with their religious practices, the mayhem that prevailed after the exile of Bahadur Shah Zafar, in India Christianity was assuming a status of the Religion of the Oppressor. But the love of Christ never failed to attract people like Bhavani Charan Banerjee, who was with the Gwalior Maharaja’s army fighting the British. This guru of Brahmo Samaj took baptism in 1888 at Hyderabad, Sindh. But he never wanted his name to give him a Christian identity that would make him unreachable to the mass; hence, he translated his Christian name: Theophilus (friend of God) as Brahmabandhab Upadhyaya. He was convinced that one could be a Christian in religion and a Hindu (Indian) in his way of life. He came to Calcutta in 1900 and set-up a small ashram in a house with a few of his disciples from Sindh province. He could be considered the founding father of the Indian Christian Ashram Movement. This ‘Christian Counter-movement’ of Brahmabandhab, earned the good will of Indian leaders like Keshub Chanda Sen, and Rabindranath Tagore, who strongly supported the secular nature of India.
To get to know more about the evolution of Ashram Movement in India, please read the paper published by Dr Ravikumar Stephen J (Swami Sthevnanda) during the formation of the National Network of Lay Theologians in India, United Theological College, Bengaluru. This article is published in the Religion & Society Magazine (ISSN 0034-3951) Vol. 55 No. 1&2 (March/June 2010). The following is the PDF version of the file for FREE download:
Karunaiyananthar Ashram is a spiritual retreat center established to realize the dharma of Jesus Christ. The Ashram is built on the banks of the river Cauvery in a coconut grove with a quiet and peaceful environment conducive to study, worship and meditation. It is located 8 miles away from Thanjavur town on the way to Kallani water reservoir at the outskirts of the Thirupanthuruthi village. The Ashram is surrounded by many villages where people are in need of education and health care.
The Ashram serves as the center for inter-religious dialogue and service. People from different religious tradition meet on the last Sunday of every month to listen to the religious discourse presented by the experts of various religious sects and denominations. Besides, the Ashram. in conjunction with Rotary club, Gandhian society, Thiruvarul Peravai (an inter-religious organization) and Red Cross conducts eye camps, medical camps, blood donation and charitable services. The Ashram also serves as a conference center for various religious groups and governmental agencies to conduct seminars and trainings. Christian worship is conducted in Indian style.
Communicate Christ and his teachings to the Hindus and disciple them to follow Christ within their cultural context without converting them to western Christianity.
It is to inspire all people to follow Christ in developing a deeper relationship with God and people and to bring peace and harmony between various religious and caste groups by creating spiritual environment for religious dialogue and philanthropic services.
One God, One World and One People
To serve the spiritual, mental, physical and social welfare of the public by relieving fear, guilt, frustration, worry, hate and anger from people through teaching, counseling, meditation and prayer; by imparting proper education which focuses on the development of the moral, intellectual, physical and social faculties in children through schools; by promoting public health, hygiene, and well-being through medical relief services and hygienic restaurants and cooking classes; by establishing orphanages, old people homes, domestic crises centers, alcohol recovery programs and recreation centers, by publishing literature on religion, health, education and other fields of knowledge that promote the objectives of the Ashram.
Please visit the ashram with prior appointment. To visit contact:
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If you don’t know much about the Church, don’t worry about it, just skip this one.
The setup: On Monday, Elder Jeffrey Holland of the Quorum of the 12 Apostles (the chief governing body of the Church), gave essentially a Q&A to YSAs (young single adults) all over the world. It was a worldwide broadcast but was supposed to be directed a this targeted group, giving us a much more intimate feel than the standard broadcasts targeted at the entire church. As a note, YSAs are ages 18-31 and typically have their own congregations. That’s about it as far as background goes.
This was a 2-hour broadcast and I cannot respond to everything. In fact, the vast majority of the material was very nice but it won’t make for a great post if I just transcribe quotes and then give them a verbal thumbs-up. As such, I will respond to the things that I thought were wrong, needed further development, or just could use my unique and self-absorbed perspective tacked onto the end. Keep in mind, this is the perspective of someone who the broadcast was targeted at. So I may be wrong in my opinions, but the opinion itself may be a useful indication of how young members of the Church are feeling.
So while the tone of this may seem like I didn’t like the broadcast and the leaders, that’s not true at all. Almost everything talked about ranged from “fine” to “decently insightful.” Nothing that was “OMG exceptional,” or life-changing, but it was still a nice, standard Church meeting.
On to the cherry-picking of quotes from the broadcast:
Question: “How can I be single in the Church and be happy at the same time? It seems the older I get, the two can’t coexist.”
Sister Stephens response included this: “We aren’t defined by our marital status in the Church.”
But we are, Sister Stephens. We are. I can’t tell if this quote represents someone who is very out of touch or if they are just being too optimistic. The Mormon Church has a culture of families. Not just spouses, but families. Speaking of the doctrine of families, Elder Holland said earlier in the meeting, “The only thing that we know, for a governing principle–and the governance of people in heaven, are families. That’s all we’ve been taught and, so far as I know, that’s all that’s there.”
“We’re not going to stop talking about the ideal,” Elder Holland continued. He’s right, of course, but the fact is, if you don’t have your own family, Mormonism is an uncomfortable community to be a part of and it’s one of the reasons I believe the YSA activity rates are in the toilet (sorry, don’t know if we’re supposed to mention that).
We all know the doctrine and its clear that the full blessings of the Gospel and the Church are not available to singles. This doctrine trickles down from pure teachings and creates the day-to-day culture of Mormonism. And the culture that we’ve got is dismissive to YSAs and often pays them nothing more than lip service. I swear there’s an underlying opinion from the family “wards” (i.e., congregations) that we YSAs are second class members. Elder Holland alluded to it later: “We just want to talk to you as adults… We see you as adults… We see you peer-to-peer and friend-to-friend.” Well, it sure doesn’t seem that way. I still think there’s often an underlying condescension when YSAs hear things from our leaders, as seen in Elder Holland jokingly reminding everyone in the room that we are God’s “little ones.” While that is definitely true, it’s not something you hear directed towards other adults in the Church. But who knows? Maybe I’m just overly sensitive.
Question: [Something about women serving missions.]
Elder Holland: “We’re very grateful for those [sister missionaries] who go… We went from something like… 8 or 10 or 12 percent to 30 or 35% of the missionaries of the Church being young women and everybody knows that a sister is twice as effective as three elders.”
Well here’s the math on this this one:
1 sister = (3 elders) * 2
So one sister is 6 elders, I guess?
Explain to me why it’s acceptable for an Apostle to make jokes at the expense of male missionaries. Just another example of modern culture creeping into the culture of the Church; that, of course, being the modern acceptance of people mocking men or implying we are half-wits in order to flatter women. I love Elder Holland but that joke was bullshit and it’s too bad so many people laughed. I was a missionary and I supervised the work of many male missionaries. We are not worth 1/6 of a female missionary. If anything, in my experience, the women on average were bigger headaches for the mission leadership. It’s just the type of casual “men suck” jokes that are hacky, played out, and have no place in a Church meeting that’s supposed to be about encouraging YSAs.
Question: [Something regarding preparation for marriage]
Sister Stephens: “We reviewed a lot of questions and one of them was, ‘If we find out someone we’re dating or someone we’re serious about has an issue with pornography, should we continue to date them or should we run?’… [Answering this question:] Are you dating someone who has a good heart, who’s honest about it, who’s willing to work with you?… What’s the condition of his heart? I think that’s where a lot of this decision will come [from]… You’re going to have to have the Spirit work really close with you… to be able to discern if this is going to work or not. I think we don’t want to ever give up on anyone.”
Pretty good answer from Sister Stephens. Church leaders don’t usually do so good when giving advice regarding dating and pornography. I’ve even heard–from a very reliable source–rumors of at least one prominent leader telling girls at a fireside to refuse to marry a man who used to look at porn. Be that as it may, I’m on board with this answer from the good sister.
A caveat to this is that for many women, this advice won’t matter. They will just end the relationship. They won’t care about this advice–and I’m not saying they should–that’s just how it is. Mormon women are petrified of pornography and while I agree that it’s a blight on our modern world, it’s merely a symptom of a sick society and men who use it are merely self-treating for an unfulfilled emotional need. It’s not about the porn. (I will probably write more on this at a future date.)
Question: [Regarding the status of gay members and how hard it can be in the Church for them.]
Elder Holland: “Let me say this to begin a response: I think we have talked altogether too much about gender and altogether too little about chastity… We do not make a judgment about someone’s attraction… We don’t make any attempt to say why that happened or how that happened… What we do say is that we teach chastity… We just go with what the Lord has declared… It’s at least as much spiritual as physical.“
“Now, when that [homosexual] attraction exists, we ask exactly what we ask with heterosexual feelings…and that is be faithful. Be clean. Be chaste. And for you, every blessing of this Church is available including the Sacraments, the ordinances, going to the Temple… whatever you need and whatever you desire and hope, those blessings are available to the chaste… It’s in the governing handbooks that are given to the Priesthood leaders of the Church. Now if some members fall short in that, then shame on them. And if I haven’t done well enough to teach that, then shame on me… We’re not making them [gays] second-class citizens… but there are commandments.”
“We would be the first to say that every person is welcome at the Church and in our circles and in our associations and in our friendship on the basis of everyone trying to keep the commandments.”
Wonderful answer from Elder Holland with a caveat. He failed to address the idea of gays in the Church being second-class citizens from a cultural standpoint. To Elder Holland’s point, the doctrine is very clear that there is no second-class citizenship in the Lord’s church. But culturally? It is weird. It’s outside the norm, people often have a hard time accepting it, and I don’t see this changing very quickly. My apologies to gays everywhere.
However, if you are gay and feeling strange and out of place, instead of coddling you, I’ll give you some real-world advice: move. If you currently live your everyday life being uncomfortable and being treated weird by well-meaning but dorky members, just move. Trust me. If you’re a gay YSA in places like Los Angeles, New York, D.C., Austin–really, the more liberal places–no one cares, everyone’s used to it, and you’ll be fine. You’re more likely to be comfortable, have friends, and fit in. Again, trust me.
Elder Holland is right about the availability of blessings but, come on, we all know you can’t achieve the highest blessings if you’re gay. Of course you can technically achieve all the blessing if you’re gay and you don’t act on it but instead get a wife and have kids, but guess what? If you’re super gay (as opposed to leaning more bisexual or being comfortable switching to the standard team completely) that would probably be miserable for you. So yeah–it sucks but I don’t know what else to tell you. Seek help from others who’ve gone through the same thing.
Follow-up question: “A lot of people who struggle with homosexual attraction feel that happiness is not available for them because of whatever reason. What words of hope do you have for them that there is happiness?”
Elder Holland: “In my professional life, I’ve only had two married secretaries… and all the others have been single. And those women can just as justifiably ask the same question… ‘What is there for me? What hope is there?’ I say there is hope for all of us. I don’t know when–some blessings come now, some blessings come later, some blessings don’t come till heaven, but they come. Every word that God has ever uttered will be honored and fulfilled. Every word.”
Perfect answer from Holland and clarifies one of my points from above, although it doesn’t make being gay and Mormon any easier while you’re living your day-to-day life. At least, I don’t think it does. Ask a gay guy/girl for a real opinion here instead of my moronic one.
It was a nice event and for a worldwide broadcast, I really did feel like Elder Holland and the other two were directly speaking to the YSAs of the Church. However, in terms of content, there just wasn’t much that was any different than any other Church broadcast. I understand that it’s hard to very candid in front of a global audience, even an audience that’s limited to YSAs, but I just wish Church leaders could occasionally speak with the frankness that I know they use in smaller meetings.


Welcome!! I am so glad you are here! A little bit about me: I am 21 years old, married, and on a journey of what it means to love outrageously, give freely, and live a life reflecting Christ. I am a dreamer. Aspiring to be a speaker and author, I am ready to take risks, be fearless, and work through my failures and successes. I believe in being transparent, honest, and that love does (inspired by Bob Goff), and that life is filled with fascinating, beautiful people that deserved to be loved outrageously and experience grace in the fullest form: Christ.
I write with transparency, hoping people can find comfort in relating with me and people who post on my blog. I believe everyone is connected through feelings. We don’t have to compare ourselves to others and conclude our story to be more or less significant than someone else’s. We are all have felt emotions on many levels, experienced hurt, felt joy, and all of have story to tell. May we be storytellers!
Feel free to walk life with me and be my friend, because I would love to be yours.
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2024 St. Patrick's Celebrations in Holyoke
Join the St. Patrick’s Weekend festivities in Holyoke with the 47th Annual Road Race and the 71st Holyoke St. Patrick’s Parade!
Tour includes the park’s history as a park alongside the Irish Catholic St. Jerome’s Church Campus.
Join Bob Comeau as he takes us on a tour of Veterans’ Memorial Park. Learn about the fascinating history of this neighborhood. You will learn about the park’s designation as part of the Hampden Park Historic District and its listing on the National Register of Historic Places. You will also learn about the 1st Catholic Church in Holyoke and the Convent of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Lourdes.
Meet at the Hampden Street side of the park.
Wear comfortable shoes as there will be walking on this tour. Be prepared to walk for about an hour.


The Music Ministry of
County Line Baptist Church
The Living Christmas
December 10th at 7:30 PM
December 11th at 5:00 PM and 7:30 PM
December 12th at 5:00 PM and 7:30 PM
The Living Christmas Tree will be a presentation of Christmas music and drama from a 40 voice choir. The choir members are "human ornaments" decorating the tree. The treee is constructed around a wooden frame and wire mesh with real pine branches. In addition to the "human ornaments" the tree is decorated with hundreds of lights and a glowing star accentuates the top of the tree.
Contact the church office to obtain your free tickets.
Updated Monday, November 29, 1999


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Many years ago, Paul wrote a letter of encouragement to one of his protégés, Timothy in which, among other things, he shared a universal truth: "God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a SOUND MIND." When living from our deep-most and authentic selves, connected to our Creator, we are powerful, we are loving and we are fearless; in other words, we possess soundness of mind.
This assertion is like a lightening rod in 2008 when our overwhelmingly "godly" country is at a critical cross-roads without a functioning compass. Fearfulness and propaganda-guzzling seem a more accurate description of our nation's current state of mind, and as we have seen, one assured to keep us mired in the mud of our separate worlds.
I believe this concept of "soundmindedness" could serve as useful standard to guide and undergird our moving towards one another to heal the many deep wounds of our country. How is the experience and exercise of power impacted by connection to our Creator? When we truly love one another, what happens to fear, distrust and suspicion? Would disciplining our mind and sharpening our critical thinking skills help us better understand one another? What is a disciplined mind?
Our individual and collective answers to these questions, I believe, could go a long ways toward navigating the waters toward a more unified country. What do you think?


HOMESCHOOL ENRICHMENT CURRICULUM
AMO’s curricular units are designed specifically to cultivate a biblical, Christian mindset, Christian imagination, and Christian conscience in children ages 6-14. Any of our units can be inserted into your existing homeschool program of instruction to enrich and inspire your homeschool experience. AMO restores the heart-to-heart and mind-to-mind relationship between parents and children in the classroom.
HOMESCHOOL WORLD LANGUAGE UNITS:
FAMILY READ ALOUD PROGRAM
All AMO curricular units are designed for parents to pick up and use in the home to nurture family ideals and relationships through the great children’s classics and God’s Word. AMO provides the tool parents need as an alternative to the world of entertainment and cyberspace that has invaded the modern American home.
FAMILY OR NEIGHBORHOOD SUMMER ENRICHMENT PROGRAM
AMO’s turnkey program is perfect for enriching your children’s summertime. Your teens can help you teach these units and enable you to enrich the lives of your children and those in the neighborhood with classics and enriched activities centered on the Gospel and noble ideals.
“I have really enjoyed teaching our children and other elementary through middle school-aged children with your AMO Teacher Guides. As a homeschooling mom for more than 23 years, I appreciate materials that are both teacher and student friendly and can be taught to multiple grade levels at one time. I love reading the classics aloud, and the children often ask for more. The note taking reinforces learning, and the activities are so delightful and educational. We have especially enjoyed the arts and crafts that accompany the classics! Thank you so much for providing this incredible resource to the homeschooling community.”— A. V., Home Educator of four
“AMO’s curriculum teaches transforming truths in such a way that our children have been deeply inspired and nurtured within. Because these teaching units have woven history and the arts into the study of children’s classics and the books of the Bible, our children now see God’s Hand and reason with principles in many other areas of their lives. This is why I recommend AMO to other homeschoolers.”— D. E., Home Educator of five
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“After my children completed the Proverbs unit, one of them made a poor choice in his actions. When I described to the child the poor choice, this is how he responded, ‘Oh no, I am being a foolish child! I don’t want to be a foolish child! I want to be a wise child! This was said several weeks after the class had ended. Right now, the children are taking a co-op class, Joel, A Boy From Galilee. It is a fantastic class and the children are learning much about the life of Jesus Christ and the Hebrew culture.”— R. C., Home educator of five


*Introit: All The Way my Saviour Leads Me VU 635
Call to Worship:
One: Come and follow me. I will make you fish for people.
ALL: That’s a whale of a tale.
One: Go to Nineveh and call on them to repent.
ALL: No Thanks, I’m kind of busy right now.
One: You can flee, but God will find you and bring you back.
ALL: My days are pretty full, can I get back to you later?
One: Across time and space, the call to follow resonates.
ALL: Simon and Andrew left their boats and followed.
One: Come and follow me. I will make you fish for people.
ALL: Thank you God for finding us in the most unlikely of places,
and bringing us to where we are meant to be.
Prayer of Approach:
Gracious and loving God, you have called us over the tumult of our lives … your voice resonates within us yet too often we fail to listen … like Jonah, we throw out excuses and run the other way … yet you persist …
You persist in calling us … you persist in loving us … you persist in being present in our lives and our world.
O Holy One, call us and welcome us in that we may be like the disciples who left their boats and nets, putting the past behind them as they answered the simple words: “Follow Me”.
We will follow wherever it is that you lead us,
We will follow the love and grace your forgiveness gives us,
We will follow, sharing love with the world as we join together in prayer,
*Hymn: Seek Ye First The Kingdom VU 356
Jonah 3:1-5, 10
Psalm 62 (VU 779)
I Corinthians 7:29-31
*Hymn: Jesus You Have Come to the Lakeshore VU 563
I learned something new this week about the book of Jonah. I’ve always known it has a fair bit of exaggeration in it, but I had not encountered a commentary on it that stated clearly that the book was a satire … the WPOG curriculum states flatly: “Jonah is different from other books about prophets in that it is a satire profiling a prophet who is disobedient rather than faithful.”
This kind of brought me up short. No one in the academic community sees the book of Jonah as a historic text, but rather a metaphoric text.
No one can live in the gut of a whale for three days.
Not too mention that Jonah ran off towards modern Spain before being swallowed by the whale, only to be barfed up on the shore a day’s walk from Ninevah – an action that would require the whale to move at physically impossible speeds from the Mediterranean sea, AROUND Africa up to the Arab peninsula where modern Iraq sits …
But beyond the exaggerations and the metaphors, scholars follow up the satire observation by noting:
The book of Jonah is uncharacteristic, when compared to other writing in the prophetic tradition, in its use of humour or irony to make its point. Humourous qualities, such as exaggerated behaviour (running away fronm God) inappropriate actions (sleeping through a violent storm) outlandish situations (offering a prayer of thanksgiving from inside a fish’s belly) ludicrous commands (animals must fast and wear sackcloth) and emotions either contrary to expectation or out of proportion appear throughout the story. But all of these qualities serve to underline the book’s themes.
The book has a role disproportionate to its size within religious tradition, Judaism picking up on its theme of repentance, reads it liturgically on Yom Kippur, the day of atonement.
So, a book written while the Jewish nation was in exile in Babylon, offers a satirical look at the life of a prophet, and from the inside of the Babylonian empire acknowledges that the nation is in need of MAJOR and immediate repentance … but in this story lies a mirror that the ancients would see, and that liturgically is at play when the text is shared on Yom Kippur … repentance is needed on the part of the Ninevites, but it is needed ALSO on the part of the listener.
Where do we sit in the story?
Are we the hard headed and stubborn Jonah who needs to be pulled back to God’s plan and desires?
Are we the people of Nineveh, quietly going about our days oblivious to our misdeeds and our need for repentance?
Or are we like the king, who on hearing the message seizes the opportunity and returns to God?
The power of that mirror is that it helps us reflect on the places in our hearts and our lives that need to be addressed … the places where grace can break through and bring transformation. Where we can have an epiphany that calls to more than this moment and where we find ourselves.
This theme carries on in the reading from Mark where Jesus calls more of his disciples.
We have four fisherman – they have secure employment, they are comfortable in their lives and social status, they are pretty much set.
Then along comes this Jesus character inviting them to leave their boats and nets behind and follow him … becoming fishers of men and women instead. An epiphany to go … to go and see where the journey may lead.
It is quite the jump – leave everything behind – security, certainty, comfort and follow an itinerant preacher as he wanders around the country side talking about God … what would our reaction be if one of our kids did that? If we did that?
Yet, here it is – central to our story and experience as a Church – as a faith community, we have a radical departure from everything we value and appreciate as a people and a culture …
And this is the discomfort we are facing as a people today – the landscape around us has been shifting and changing, and things are not as they once were, so we face a call … a call to faith.
We face a call and we await an epiphany that will show us where we are to go.
This is where we can begin to understand some of what is unfolding around us that leaves us scratching our heads in bewilderment.
Economically things are changing, the secure, good paying jobs are simply not here anymore, and precarious employment and uncertainty about retirement is the norm … people are frightened and uncertain and angry, so when a political candidate steps up and starts talking about making things better and offers simple answers to the complex issues, as frightening as it may be, people jump at the chance to reclaim past glory and will support them …
Socially things are in incredible flux … all around us there are people who are NOT like us – their language, culture and skin tone are different … they want to live in little clusters and hang out with each other and not mesh into our society (they aren’t like the Italians and Germans and scots who settled vast tracts of land together, or lived in neighbourhoods together …) But that difference can make us uncomfortable and uneasy and leads to uncertainty, fear and even anger …
So, in the face of anger and fear we seek something … anything … that will give us comfort and security.
Churches are not immune – instead of embracing the uncertainty with the spirit of the disciples heading off to follow Jesus wherever the journey might lead, we instead will entrench ourselves, tighten the rules, clarify the dogmas, strengthen the thou shalt not’s and enforce the us or them paradigms … and we seek simple answers for complex questions …
We seek comfort in the face of uncertainty
We seek certainty in the face of doubt
We seek safety in the face of fear
But God calls us to something that is truly uncertain … our problem has been, as theologian Walter Bruggemann notes – that as Christians we are used to being victors and triumphant. This new context where we are not the victors, and we are not always right is different and truly disconcerting. The epiphany will likely not bring comfort, but will guide us to FACE the discomfort and meet it with faith and grace.
In the last forty years something has happened that we are struggling to make sense of … when I started in ministry, a mere 25 years ago, full time ministries were the norm. I remember class mates wanting a part-time charge rather than full time, and they were out there, but they were rare.
Ministry was a secure job – there were lots of churches, and there were lots of opportunities …
Today, the landscape is different. Part-time ministries are the norm, and fulltime ministries are uncommon. Ministry is not a secure job, and the likelihood of secure employment with a comfortable retirement as a minister is more than just uncertain … and the context within churches is similar.
Churches are struggling … they are fighting to keep the lights on and the doors open … congregations are dwindling and the average age is climbing … to be honest and blunt, as an institution the Church – across denominations – is dying … and the grief that is in response to that palliative journey is real and tangible and is leading to A LOT of anger … A LOT of fighting.
When there is a death in a family, we ALL know stories about fighting over stuff … cherished mementos or valued heirlooms … families bicker and fight and real damage can happen over the silliest of things …
The epiphany moment for us, in community … in faith, is to name the grief … to own the grief … to live the grief … and to begin to heal through it.
In the Church today, we are in the same scenario as a family standing by the grave of a loved one. Big changes are unfolding around us, and things are changing rapidly … and like any family we are grieving, even if we don’t use the language … so, shall we try to run away like Jonah? Flee in the opposite direction to escape God?
Or will we get angry and lash out? Will we let our grief turn to resentment and anger and tear down rather than build up?
Or will we respond like the disciples and the people of Corinth? Will we face our mortality and embrace the epiphany? Will we have the courage to face our grief by letting go of the familiar and the comfortable and facing tomorrow KNOWING that God is with us, and that we are being called and invited AND welcomed to join in the journey that lies ahead?
The WPOG summarizes it well when it notes:
Sometimes God calls when we least expect it, at an inconvenient time, or from an unexpected source. Are we, like Jonah, trying to avoid God’s summons? Or like the four fishers, ready to drop what we are doing and follow Jesus? Whatever response we make, God does not give up on us. Like the Corinthians that Paul was writing to, we are called to find ways to rearrange our lives, set new priorities, and treat one another as Christ taught us to. What is God’s ‘the time is now’ message to us, and to our faith community at this moment in our lives?
And what are we prepared to do with that message?
… may it be so … thanks be to God, let us pray …


To pay homage to Pope Francis’ Jubilee, Sightjogging offers the “Route of Mercy”, a 11.5k run, passing along the four major Roman basilicas: St John Lateran, Saint Mary Major, St Peter’s and St Paul’s outside the Walls.
The proceeds of the run will go to the Comunità di Sant’Egidio of Rome on behalf of the poor and homeless people of the City.
- distanza: Km 11,5
- tempo previsto: nd
- difficoltà: nd
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On Sunday, October 22, 2017, Victor Hugo Corrales Alatrista, age 71, died with his loving family by his side at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Born November 17, 1945, to Julia Leoner Alatrista Marroquin and the late Ernesto Mamerto Corrales Zuniga in Arequipa, Peru.
Beloved husband of Irlanda Marilyn Corrales. Father of Franz (Elvira) Corrales of Lima, Peru; Victor Hugo (Yesenia) Corrales of Lima, Peru; Fernando Corrales, of Lima, Peru; Yazmin Corrales, of Lima, Peru; Liz Corrales, of Montgomery Village, MD; Jorge Corrales, of Montgomery Village, MD; Julissa Corrales of Montgomery Village, MD and Irlana Corrales also of Montgomery Village, MD. Grandfather of Marco, Franz, Alejandra, Guillermo, Camilla, Jimena, Victor, Hugo; brother of Maruja Corrales de Dextre (Victor), Carmen Corrales de Ugarte, Luis (Zenaida) Corrales, Julia Corrales de Nestore (Antonio), Amilcar Corrales ( Maria Eugenia), and Rosa Corrales, and Amparo Corrales de Fiorucci.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at St. John Neumann Catholic Church, 9000 Warfield Road, Gaithersburg, MD 20882, Wednesday, October 25, 2017, at 8:00 pm.


How to Read the Bible
You are in the right place for some ways of reading the Bible,and you can find some links at the end of this article. If you do these in the right way you will get the greatest insight and understanding from it,that will help you live a fulfilled life.
There are many Bible verses that will help you see your own personal spirituality,and many will be able to point out things that will help you live a better and more fulfilling life. Many believe that the scriptures are a divinely inspired source of knowledge and wisdom. When you read them,you will understand and relate to their words and teachings.
The first place to start when looking at how to read the Bible is the Old Testament and New Testament. You will see that there are many unique Bible verses about the laws and commandments that God has given us to live by,as well as ways to live our lives on earth.
The law,love,compassion,charity,and justice are all taught in the Old Testament,which is also referred to as the Prophets’ testament. It is also important to note that there are verses in the New Testament that were written after the Old Testament prophets had passed away.
What makes the Bible so special is that it was written in the plain language,to the heart of man. Therefore,it is important to recognize the motives of God in writing the New Testament,and to understand the lessons that are meant to be understood.
The Bible has been translated into many languages over the years,but they all share one thing in common: the wisdom that it is teaching us is eternal and can not be destroyed by the words that were written. In fact,the more we read the Bible,the more we are led to follow the same path of righteousness.
The following are a few ways to read the Bible,and ways that you can understand more of its true meaning and purpose. To find out more about the Bible and how it can help you live a fulfilled life,you can click on the links below. -


A lot has been made of Pope Francis, and the unconventional approach he has taken since being elected as the successor to Pope Benedict XVI in March of 2013. While he has a lot of supporters, many conservatives believe that his liberal approach to the papacy is a bit too drastic.
While Pope Francis has done a tremendous amount of good, while also bringing to light many of our misdoings over the years, it is his untraditional style that has many people of different religions partially supporting his actions. We are talking about Muslims, Jews, and atheists turning their attentions to Pope Francis in support of many things that he has to say. While he is far from being a saint, he may actually be on his way to sainthood one day, at least according to one mother, named Lynn Cassidy.
The family intended to see Pope Francis, and they were told that if they stood on a specific barricade in St. Peters Square, that the Pope would come by in his Pope-mobile. While they fully expected to see the Pope, what they didn’t expect to happen was a miracle.
“My husband Scott held her (Ave) up, like the Lion King, and the Pope came by, and the secret service person, Johnny, stopped and took her from Scott and held her up to the Pope,” Cassidy told USA Today. The Pope asked my husband, ‘How old is she and what’s her name?’. ”
Scott told him that Ave had two holes in her heart. When the family went back to the cardiologist the following month, they miraculously learned that one of the holes in Ave’s heart was completely closed up, while the second had shrunk to about half of its previous size.
While it is impossible to tell for sure if the healing of Ave’s heart was indeed a miracle performed by one of the most holy men on Earth, or if it was merely a coincidence, Cassidy believes it was the former, and it is hard to argue against the evidence.


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a greeting which first came unto some shepherds in Bethlehem,
tellin' them of Jesus' birth.
Peace on earth is something He would earn by His death.
God is righteous, and only satisfied with righteousness.
This is what Christ lived His life with.
And when He died, it was a sacrifice which provided
peace, in the highest sense of the word.
Christ entered the world
to reconcile men, who were defiled with sin, to The Lord.
Truly, before we could know any peace on earth,
God's holy justice must've been appeased first.
The Lord Jesus' work at the Cross restored peace between us & God.
By us, I mean the believers of the Gospel
and others in this world, who are His, but who are lost, though.
Eventually, these particular sheep will also be brought into the fold.
The glory of God they'll behold,
who will have wrought peace in their souls.
Gospel preaching is the info by which men know
that God is at peace with them.
“Peace on earth, good will to men”
means that God's will for them
is to turn to Jesus. He is God's terms of peace &
the means by which He deals with sin.
For Christ's sake, He forgives them;
inwardly cleanses; gives repentance, and makes them live with a significant difference,
which is only reasonable, since He speaks whole peace to their souls.
This is the true peace on earth, and indeed it’s beautiful.
When His peace is revealed, we will believe and be healed and be whole.
Otherwise, due to our evil, and because of our hearts being so dark and deceitful,
"Peace on earth "is a credo, which we know nothing much of,
until we behold God's abundant love,
in sending us His Son from above.
This is the sum & the substance of
the glad tidings of which the Scriptures teach.
From Genesis to Revelation,
Jesus, the Word of God, speaks
and His word to the people of God is: "Peace."


Here's a quote from Luther on the human capacity to cultivate civil righteousness, the capacity of all people to develop virtue and be relatively good people. Reformed theology speaks similarly when it talks of common grace. Luther is careful to distinguish this from being truly righteous before God.
We must distinguish between the theological and the civil standpoints. God approves also the rule of the ungodly; he honors and rewards virtue also among the ungodly, but only in regard to the things of this life and things grasped by a reason which is upright from the civil standpoint; whereas the future life is not embraced in such reward. His approval is not with regard to the future life. We believe that man without the Holy Spirit is altogether corrupt before God, though he may stand adorned with all heathen virtues, as moderation, liberality, love of country, parents and children, courage and humanity. The declarations of the Holy Scriptures prove the same thing. The statement in the fourteenth Psalm is sweeping enough when it says, “The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy; there is none that doeth good; no, not one. Paul says, “God hath concluded them all in unbelief.” Christ says, “Without me ye can do nothing.”Quoted in DEVOTIONAL READINGS from LUTHER’S WORKS for EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR by REV. JOHN SANDER, L. H. D.


Wow! Really like your singing. Great Christmas song!
Wow, what a powerful performance by Sara. I am such a huge Sara fan. Her voice is strong and so passionate. Her feelings for what she sings so comes out in her voice. Such a powerful singer.. Well done Sara.
Beautiful rendition of this very special song! So glad it is on the album.
Only as Sara could do so wonderfully. Even Jesus applauds with the rest of us. Superb voice.
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Sara – thank you for that beautiful song. You made my Christmas complete –
I could see the glory of Jesus Christ on your face through my eyes of faith.
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Unleashing a wave of compassion into the community was the goal of this year's Ministry Tsunami at Eagles Landing First Baptist Church in Atlanta. 2,500 people (church members and friends) were today mobilized to serve the community in some form… feeding the homeless; visiting nursing homes, disabled veterans and their families; cleaning parks, schools and cemeteries; fellowship-ing at police precincts; and more (adding up to about 300 projects to my understanding). The goal: putting love in action and extending the love of Christ into the community.
It was exciting to commit and work with other members of our church family in serving the community.
Here are some photos the kids and I took:
Heading out to church. Abby's friend Savannah was spending the weekend with us.
The kids and I were happy to be part of Ministry Tsunami (Twitter: #MinTsu15), the first one. Giving back is important in spreading love and sharing blessings.
Pastor Tim making announcements just before members went out into the community.
I made notes during last week's service when the pastor spoke about love and the importance of giving back. He said (1)- Love breaks down barriers. It does not make excuses. (2)- Love is not always reasonable, but it is always right to love. (3)- Love goes the extra mile.
"What we give we keep, what we keep we lose."
Casting Crowns performance to kick off today's community service.
We volunteered at Heritage Park, spreading bales of straw.
Proud of the kids, they took this seriously.
Being of service to those in need and to the community at large is really a basic human responsibility. I am hoping the kids grow up understanding that you can work just as hard for others, as you do for yourself and your family.
The award for the most hardworking on the team went to son #1. He is always the leader.
Love is an action word. The theme of the Ministry Tsunami was 'love has hands', inspiring each and everyone of us to reach out and be helpful – to not only preach love, but to walk the walk practically. I thought it was particularly meaningful to have this day of service during thanksgiving week … signifying that another way of showing gratitude is by giving back.
One more thing I personally took away from this experience is that we can give back in many ways. One doesn't need millions of dollars in the bank to make a difference… by volunteering our time and effort, we can all make a huge impact as well.
It's a blessing to be part of a faith family that strives to impact the community through service and missions.
I hope today's post inspires you to reach out and be a blessing in some form to another. Cheers to your success and thank you for reading!


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Traditionalists are usually conservative about their sexual practics, and are apt to establish their routines early in marriage and to observe them throughout life. The unexpected and unusual are not usually a part of the married SJ's sexual repertoire, making it unlikely for them to experiment very much with sexual approaches or techniques-or partners.
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At bottom, married SJs regard sex as a means of reproduction rather than a form of recreation and both male and female SJs may reflect the attitude that having children, who will bring joy and comfort, and who will continue the family line, is expected and desirable in marriage. While this is less true in our so called sexually liberated age, the view of sex as recreation is still not ordinarily held by most married Traditionalists.
Traditional mates may have some difficulty understanding the emotional needs of other types, particularly the NF Idealists and the NT Conceptualistsfor whom transactions outside of the bedroom loom vital as a precursor to sexual response. The notion of getting turned on by books or ideas-philosophy, psychology, literature-does not make much sense to SJs. Sex is sex and philosophy is philosophy.


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I want you to remember that verse for a little bit, and now I want you toimagine yourselves looking at this wonder of Pentecost (as it is described in Acts) as if we were all in the street in front of 9th church right now, Lanoxin to buy online. Order Lanoxin from United States pharmacy, I say in the street because even though this all started inside, it is clear that at the end everyone is outside, where to buy Lanoxin, Buy Lanoxin online cod, taking the message to all who are around. Buy Lanoxin Without Prescription, So, imagine yourselves outside, not as one of the apostles, but as one of the devout Jews that came to Jerusalem for their festival day.
Tell me, what would you think, or how do you think you would feel, if you saw something like this happening?
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But who in this text is not making fun of anything. Who is helping the people understand what is happening? [Peter]
Peter gets to his feet and says, "Let me explain to you all what is happening...it is related to what Joel said," and he begins to tell people their own story from the prophet Joel about the wonders of God. Peter, in this moment, is acting as a witness in Jerusalem - exactly as Jesus said would happen in Acts 1:8.
And it was then that I realized the purpose of this passage, Buy Lanoxin Without Prescription. Sure the part with tongues and fire gets your attention, but the purpose of all of it, the point, is to honor and glorify God. It is not a trick or anything magical. This is one of the wonders of God that is being used to share the good news with every person there, no matter where they are from and no matter what language they speak. Sisters and brothers, the movement of the Holy Spirit between us still serves to encourage us as prophets and witnesses of Jesus and to speak about the wonders of God because if we as Christians don't ever do that, who do we expect will?
I can promise you that there are still a world of people out there - good people, faithful and devout people - who need to hear your voice to help them understand all the clamor and noise in their lives. Buy Lanoxin Without Prescription, It could be that they are seeing miracles, wonders in their midst, but they can't recognize them because it all seems like a disorderly mess to them and they are stuck feeling amazed, perplexed, disconcerted...sneering at everything in order to fake a modicum of control. What they lack is the voice of Peter, or Caridad, Adriana, Oscar, Jacobo, or Nacha [members of 9th church]. They need you all to explain to them what they are seeing; they need for 9th church to be a community of prophets that will name the wonders of God that are occurring around them.
And when I say a community of prophets, I am not talking about you all telling the future - about what is going to happen next Wednesday, or who someone is going to marry. Prophets are the people that serve as witnesses to the wonders of God, those who make more clear the movement of God or the Spirit to transform the world and each of us. This testament comes in what we do as well as what we say. Later in Acts chapter two we can see how a community of believers lives, and it is by way of their lives that other people are added to their number.
So for example, today we might name the work that you all have done with the Movimiento Estudiantil Cristiano (Student Christian Movement) to fight against child abuse, Buy Lanoxin Without Prescription. What a wonder of God. Or there is bound to be someone here who has had a completely unexpected change in their life that for you shows the movement of the Spirit in your midst. These are the experiences that we must share and name as wonders of God. I am not saying that being a witness is easy to do, because it isn't, so I think it would be good if we practiced a little here together.
So if I asked you, what are the wonders of God that you have seen or known. What would you say?
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This past Wednesday a displaced campesino (poor farmer) was killed in the department (state) of Sucre. His name was Rogelio Martínez Mercado. He was the leader of a group of displaced people who were (and are still) fighting for the recuperation of their land so they can start their lives again. He was on a motorcycle near his home in San Onofre when two men on another motorcycle rode past and shot and killed him. None of this was for the honor and glory of God, Buy Lanoxin Without Prescription. This was out of greed and a desire for power.
However, the response to this act of violece is important. People were not silent, not at all. Thursday a group of three people representing the Presbyterian Church of Colombia (IPC) from this presbytery went to mourn the death of their brother in Christ and to show their solidarity with the family and the community. There they encountered people from all over the north coast, representatives of human rights organizations from Bogotá, officials from the governments of Sweden and Norway as well as the United Nations. All were there to condemn the assasination and to call for a different future for that community and for this country.
Buy Lanoxin Without Prescription, What happened did not immediately change a difficult situation. It does not assure that something like this will never happen again. But in the midst of the fear and confusion, in multiple tongues, with old people dreaming of a better day and young people envisioning their role in creating a more peaceful world - there the prophecy of Joel was alive. There was another Pentecost. Things such as this are for the honor and glory of God brothers and sisters. These are the continuing wonders of God.
Do not be confused that Pentecost was a time that is over or and event that only came once, years ago, and was left in the past, Buy Lanoxin Without Prescription. We are ever in the midst of Pentecost. The Spirit of God is not a gift that poured out but that is pouring out on God's servants always. Our responsibility is to be witnesses of those moments, to name them for all to see - in the Ceiba, in Barranquilla, in Colombia, until the ends of the earth. Amen..
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Why We Worship (aka “go to Service”)
As a progressive Christian community we are comfortable updating many of the traditional words in our hymns and prayers to make them more inclusive and descriptive of the modern time in which we live. For over 200 years, however, we have preserved the traditional term “worship” to formally describe what we are up to on the first day of the week. Our collective wisdom discerns in “worship” a nugget of truth for our modern-day community, a call to beyond ourselves. Every Sunday morning we gather to move past our individual selves and into an experience of reverence and ever-present love that many of us call God. Traditionalists may imagine God as a loving parent while others identify God as inner light, divine consciousness, Jesus, Holy Spirit, or the love found between people, all of which are welcome and indeed celebrated. With that said, most of our members prefer to use the phrase “going to service” to describe what they are up to on the first day of the week. In the broadest sense, the most common reason why we, as an inter-generational community, attend worship is that a love within and beyond this community calls us to this place and we long to understand and live out that love more fully. If you plan to attend our Sunday morning service, we suggest coming more than once to best capture the movement of the liturgy, the diverse content and tone of the pastor’s meditations and to get to know our community. We look forward to seeing you! Click here to view an example of our order of service.


Monday, May 23rd : FULL DAY OF SCHOOL
Tuesday – Friday May 24th-27th : HALF DAYS OF SCHOOL with dismissal at 11:45 (Each 1/2 day is a free non-uniform day).
Friday, May 27th: Class Party at 11:00 (more info to follow)
Psalm 23:1-6 “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for you are with me; your rod and staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies, you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”
There will be a Bible verse quiz on Friday.
We will play games and do activities that will concentrate on sight words. There will not be any more spelling tests this year.
We will continue to play games and do activities to practice and reinforce the special sounds that we have learned this year. There will not be any more phonics tests this year.
Reading and Writing:
All groups will be reading and writing different forms of poetry.
We will review concepts learned this year (re-grouping, time, money, etc.)
We will continue to work on force and matter.


Our 4-week series which tracks the events and happenings of the “Passion of the Christ” – the final week in the life Jesus before his crucifixion, as told by the gospel of Mark.
|DATE||SERMON TITLE||SCRIPTURE TEXT|
|18/03/2012||At Gethsemane: Betrayed!||Mark 14:32-52|
|25/03/2012||At the Governor's: Condemned!||Mark 14:53-65, Mark 15:1-20|
|01/04/2012||At Golgotha: Crucified!||Mark 15:21-47|
|08/04/2012||At The Grave: Risen!||Mark 16:1-8|


“Why should I be sacrificed on the altar of his growth?!” I remember the day I said these words out loud to God. I was angry. Angry and hurt. I didn’t think I could get that angry. Now it seemed like God was taking his side.
For an entire year a young man in my Christian community had publicly insulted my weight and femininity. His sideways, passive comments were lobbed in front of our friends and although we tried to ignore the jabs, we all knew what he thought of me. I was fat and unattractive. In private, friends tried to assure me, “He’s wrong.” “Stacie, you are pretty.” But these comments went to the heart of my insecurities.
At the end of the day I was left to struggle with his words. The worst part was that deep down I believed he was right. I knew enough theology to know that God saw me as precious and beautiful, but the rest of the world? This man was just voicing what everyone thought and no one was willing to say. I was undesirable. So, there I was, hurt and angry.
Months passed. I sank into sadness and isolation, functional on the outside and withering on the inside. Prayer became a plea for God to rid me of this person and help me feel better about living in a world where I was less than everyone else. Wasn’t God angry too? Then came a pivotal conversation. A trusted friend stepped into my world and offered his help, with one condition. I needed to confront the person hurting me, share my injury and forgive. Nothing could have seemed more unwise to me.
Although I had read the passages in the Bible about forgiveness and confrontation (Ephesians 4:32; Matthew 18:15), this had to be an exception. Isn’t is unwise to confess hurt to someone who has only shown that they can and will hurt you? I was pretty certain he had no idea of his effect on me and I was determined to make sure he would never know.
But then the Scripture became inescapable.
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. -Ephesians 4:29-32
I was not allowed to attack back, scream and rant in anger. I had to go to him for HIS good. I read and re-read and screamed through Ephesians. Someone else’s behavior never lets me off the hook for acting for their good. I am never off the hook of love and forgiveness.
My choice seemed terribly simple. I could either die the slow death of withering from the inside, wallowing in anger, hurt, and bitterness, or I could obey God and move toward my enemy’s good. Two paths that felt like death lay before me and God would only walk with me down one of them. God would sacrifice me on the altar of his good. I wish I could say I had spiritual strength, faith and foresight. What I would do next was merely obedience and little else.
I knew pride, resentment and ugliness were rooting deep in my heart and I was desperate for their death. I was desperate enough to submit to God and confess in deep repentance the ugly truth: I didn’t care about his good. I didn’t want to love this person. I didn’t want to forgive. I wanted him to pay.
In order to share with this man how he injured me I would have to be filled with the Holy Spirit but this didn’t feel strong. It felt open, vulnerable and weak. I didn’t even think I could talk without crying. I prayed through Ephesians 4 over and over again, unsure of whether I could even be kind or civil. I prayed for the heart I wanted, but didn’t have. I prayed for strength and compassion. I prayed to expect nothing. It could not be about getting an apology or seeing repentance.
At this point you may be tempted to think, “But he is wrong. He doesn’t deserve kindness.” That’s true. But neither do we. Why is it that when I wrong someone I want mercy, but when someone wrongs me I want justice? The cross of Jesus shows how equally in need of forgiveness we all are and how graciously it has been offered by the One who has never been in need of it.
So, we talked. I cried. Then, something miraculous happened. He didn’t understand. He did not apologize. His words were stoic and formal. He was caught off guard and at a loss for how to respond. I didn’t get deep sensitivity or caring. But it didn’t crush me. I climbed on an altar, expecting to be sacrificed but found myself freed. Like a tiny seed in my heart, something began to bloom. I wanted this man’s good. I wanted God to be kind to him. I was able to forgive.
I have rarely in my life felt so protected, loved and cared for as I did the day I walked away from that conversation. I had done as God asked, not just for his good but for mine. My heart could break without breaking me. God’s rebuke of me could be kind. God saw my pride, self protection and rebellion. I had dared to ask God to choose my good over another one of His other children, as if I were faultless. Something in me was ugly, prideful and demanding. Here in the ugly bits of myself there is forgiveness, mercy and grace.
Since that time Paul’s words on forgiveness live in me like light in darkness.
6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— 8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. -Romans 5:6-8
Forgiveness is a miracle. It is one of the most amazing ways we as Christians can experience the miraculous nature of the cross in our relationships. His forgiveness of us births in us the humility to forgive, even those who hurt us. Forgiveness is still hard, but necessary.
Do you know what it is to be forgiven? Do you need to forgive?
5 thoughts on “The Anger in Forgiveness”
Stacie, though you’ve shared thus story with me, today it impacted me differently as I’m reading it. Did your act of obedience and courage ever produce fruit in him or is that still unknown to you?
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Ditto Betsy’s response. There is Power in these words. Thank you for your open raw honesty.
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I really loved this article. Forgiveness is an issue everyone deals with at one time or another especially in the context of family relationships. Should you go to the family member in the same way and tell them, in love, how they have hurt you knowing you can’t just walk away but will be seeing this person on a regular basis for the rest of your life? Isn’t the purpose of forgiveness to restore the relationship? Do you have any suggestions for handling this problem with a close family member? It is a real mine field that needs to be tread in lightly.
Great thoughts and questions Bonnie. Yes, family is much harder. For family or friend I would ask if it is for their good that they know how the relationship has been fractured. Is it for their good that they know you have been hurt and seek to forgive? Do they need to know you love them enough to talk? In the end though some relationships can’t be repaired. Reconciliation depends on the good will of both parties. “If possible, as far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.” Romans 12:8
I loved this, Stacie. Well-written. So very relevant to pretty much everyone who’s ever had confrontational people in their lives.
I have a question that stems from my own issues. Would you consider him to be a toxic personality? Forgiveness is necessary for every person, but I wonder if you still had to deal with him after your healing, and if he didn’t seem to change, was it reasonable to distance yourself from him? I have a person in my life, (Family), who reels me in emotionally and then stomps on me when I get close. The problems resulting no longer consume me like they used to, which tells me I’ve forgiven, but I do struggle in the area of “how involved should I be?”. I still get mad are things this person does to the other people in my family, though. Which might require another bought of forgiveness asking lol. Thoughts appreciated.


Sarah Palin could become the second most powerful person in the world this November. As soon as she was declared the Vice Presidential candidate by the Republican Party, there has been an onslaught of negative press against her i.e. her alleged extra marital affair, her picture in a Bikini, speculation that her youngest daughter is actually her daughter’s daughter who is not yet married (Yeah, this is indeed negative for a person whose target vote bank is conservative). All these news are from her personal life and I believe voters should not care about thir leaders personal lives as long as it is not affecting their work.
However, there is one aspect of her personal life which can affect us all. Palin was a member of Wasilla Assembly of God Church, for more than two decades since her teenage. The church, according to Wall Street Journal, believes that we are living in the end times and this was confirmed in 1948, with the founding of the state of Israel and thus conforming a Biblical prophecy of Jews returning to the Holy Land. Now can we rerally trust Palin with the Nuclear button if she has such beliefs ?
Reverend Ed Kalnins, pastor of the Wasilla Assembly of God church, told members that God put George Bush in office and that US is fighting a “holy war” in Iraq. We could have ignored Ed Kalnins belief if he would have been some Jihadi sitting in a cave in Afghanistan but he is pastor of the church which was attended by Sarah Palin for more than two decades and she still visits the church for meetings and conferences. Her only son is in Iraq for his military service or if Palin’s pastor is to be believed, a religious service. If Sarah becomes Vice President, how would she decide the future course of action ? Would it be aimed at finding a solution to the crisis or winning the “holy war” at any cost ?
Sarah Palin would have to clarify her stand considering the facrt that her faith has now become a big issue. Lets hope that Sarah no longer believes in her former church or if she does, the US voters keep this in mind when they vote in November because the results will affect not just US but the entire world.


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Christian internet communities are an excellent resource for believers in the modern digital age. It offers a secure setting where believers of all ages can congregate, discuss their religion, and learn from one another. Christian communities online can help develop a feeling of community and bring individuals together who might otherwise be geographically or otherwise apart through forums, groups, or even virtual events. It’s a fantastic way to get to know other Christians and learn more about how the Christian faith works in modern society. We can better comprehend the principles of the Bible and how they can guide the way we live our lives through connecting with others.
The online Christian community is no exception, providing a platform for believers to share the power of their faith with one another. By coming together in an online space, Christians all around the world have the opportunity to come together and discuss their individual experiences related to their faith. Through this type of community, members can form meaningful connections and learn from each other. By embracing the sharing of experiences, values, and beliefs, members of the Christian community online can learn how to serve their faith and each other better.
In this blog post, we will explore how Christian communities online can create an even stronger sense of faith, how to make the most of your online Christian community, and how to be a supportive and active member of the community.
Engaging in Conversations About Faith and Life Experiences
As conversations about faith and life experiences often bring up complex and intimate topics, it can be difficult to approach such conversations in a professional, respectful manner. However, it is possible and even beneficial to create an environment in which these conversations can take place. By engaging in conversations about faith and life experiences, we can open ourselves up to new perspectives, gain valuable insight, and foster meaningful connections.
Engaging in conversations about faith and life experiences is an incredibly important part of connecting with others. By discussing topics such as our beliefs and experiences, we can learn more about one another and become more understanding and accepting of different perspectives. Doing so also allows us to develop a deeper understanding of our own faith and life experiences, which can, in turn, help us to understand our own values and feelings better. These conversations can be enlightening for both parties involved and can provide a platform for learning and growth. Engaging in conversations about faith and life experiences can facilitate greater empathy and compassion for others.
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