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Latest Articles: Religion
‘Our Parent in Heaven’: Liberals push for a gender-neutral God
Post Date: 2023-02-13 16:54:19 by Charles_Byrd
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At a time when Church membership has hit an all-time low in the Western world, it might seem odd that Christian leaders appear more determined than ever to alienate what’s left of their dwindling flock through woke nonsense. In December, for example, the Dean of Trinity College left an assembly of worshippers in tears after he argued that the body of Jesus Christ appeared to be “trans.” Part of the reasoning was due to the wound on his side, made by a Roman spear as the son of God hung dying on the cross, which had a “decidedly vaginal appearance.” I will let the reader make of that what they will. Click for Full Text!
Church of England Debates Using Gender-Neutral Pronouns for God
Post Date: 2023-02-08 22:32:26 by Charles_Byrd
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The Church of England said Wednesday that it would reconsider the traditional use of masculine pronouns to describe God, floating gender- neutral alternatives to "He" and "Our Father." Two days after gathering in London for the latest General Synod, the church revealed that it plans to launch a commission this spring tasked with investigating the use of gendered language in prayers, baptisms, and general usage. Click for Full Text!
The President Has Spoken
Post Date: 2023-02-05 21:09:15 by Charles_Byrd
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After reviewing complaints about Luther’s Large Catechism with Annotations and Contemporary Applications, President Harrison has concluded that the volume is fine as it is, and requires no changes. It has been put back into distribution. President Harrison has spoken, and has done so in his capacity as president of synod. As disappointed as some of us are, we need to keep a few things in mind moving forward. Click for Full Text!
Preaching Predestination with Jim Nestingen
Post Date: 2023-02-03 15:16:28 by Charles_Byrd
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Not long ago, a friend and mentor of mine died and went into his (very much unearned) reward with Jesus Christ. James A. Nestingen was known to many – in the Lutheran world and outside of it – for his bold testimony to Christ and the salvation he bestows. Jim was many things, above all, a family man. But his public vocation was that of preacher and teacher of the church. His scholarship on the Reformation has shaped our understanding of the sixteenth century, and his personality was larger than life, leaving an impression on all he encountered. There are many contributions of Jim's career that we should remember. But one worth noticing is Jim's understanding of preaching ...
The Presentation of Our Lord
Post Date: 2023-02-03 15:14:22 by Charles_Byrd
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Freedom isn't free, and the price for freedom is almost always blood. The Exodus event is about freedom: freedom from the slavery of Egypt but also freedom from the slavery of sin. I do not think we can overestimate the importance of the Exodus, that is, the "exit" of Israel from Egypt. The Exodus event was THE event of the Old Testament. God never wanted his people to forget that he freed them, so he insisted that they remember this event every year. Passover is the yearly holiday celebrated in remembrance of the Exodus. We might think about the Passover as all of our American holidays wrapped into one – that is how important the Exodus was to both ancient Israelite ...
Ministries Making a Difference
Post Date: 2023-01-30 22:10:56 by Charles_Byrd
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By renting and working out of eight apartments throughout neighborhoods in Winston Salem, N.C., one couple with the Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board (NAMB) has been able to use their Mission Center ministry to minister to underserved families through sports, organized activities, weekly discipleship get togethers, and—most recently —through a bus renovated into a mobile classroom, called the “God Loves You” bus. Click for Full Text!
‘He Gets Us’ Organizers Hope to Spend $1 Billion to Promote Jesus. Will Anyone Care?
Post Date: 2023-01-30 21:32:07 by Charles_Byrd
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The first time she saw an ad for “He Gets Us,” a national campaign devoted to redeeming the brand of Christianity’s savior, Jennifer Quattlebaum had one thought on her mind. Click for Full Text!
Understanding Hosea's Marriage to Gomer
Post Date: 2023-01-29 19:57:57 by Charles_Byrd
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The Lord and Israel are major characters in the Book of Hosea, but the drama of their relationship is acted out in the persons of Hosea and his unfaithful wife, Gomer. She bore him three children: two sons and a daughter. Hosea gave the children symbolic names that illustrated God’s attitude toward Israel’s present and future: Jezreel (“God sows” punishment), Lo-Ruhamah (“No Mercy”), and Lo-Ammi (“Not My People”). Read on to see what The Lutheran Bible Companion says about Hosea. Click for Full Text!
Play nice!
Post Date: 2023-01-29 01:03:57 by Charles_Byrd
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Well, ain’t we got fun! Ever since this annotated Catechism became a matter of concern, beginning last week with a layman’s Tweet about what’s in it, the sparks have been flying. To be clear, we didn’t enter the fray to make things worse, and, frankly, I think they’re being handled well since we and a host of others with similar concerns brought it up. But now it seems there’s, er, mud being flung about in a rather unsavory fashion. As it happens, for our part we take great pleasure in being falsely accused and men revile us, and persecute us, and say all manner of evil against us falsely, for Christ’s sake. In fact, we rejoice and are exceeding glad. We ...
NASA astronaut says science 'doesn't contradict' Christianity; Bible museum opens new exhibit
Post Date: 2023-01-27 00:12:56 by Charles_Byrd
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A former NASA astronaut said he believes the study of nature and science are intertwined with Scripture at the opening of a new exhibit at the Museum of the Bible about the Good Book's role in the relationship between science and Christianity. Jeff Williams, a retired NASA astronaut who traveled to space on four separate occasions, told The Christian Post during a visit to the exhibit, titled "Scripture and Science: Our Universe, Ourselves, Our Place" that he spent 534 days in space from 2000 to 2016. Click for Full Text!
Pope Francis: 'Homosexuality is not a crime,' encourages bishops to stop conversion therapy
Post Date: 2023-01-25 23:47:31 by Charles_Byrd
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Pope Francis I said in an interview with the Associated Press that “homosexuality is not a crime” and encouraged bishops to stop practicing forms of conversion therapy. Francis has come under scrutiny in the past for his statements regarding the LGBTQ community, including his perceived endorsement of same-sex civil unions in 2020. The pope stated during the interview that while homosexuality is considered a sin, it should not be a “crime.” Click for Full Text!
'Controversial' gender-neutral production of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' features non-binary Jesus
Post Date: 2023-01-25 23:12:25 by Charles_Byrd
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The Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group (EUSOG) is reportedly performing the first gender-neutral production of "Jesus Christ Superstar." The rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar," from Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sir Tim Rice, retells Jesus’ last weeks from the point of view of Judas Iscariot. Click for Full Text!
Bombshell from grave: Pope Benedict, who is dead, unleashes on Catholics
Post Date: 2023-01-24 18:22:56 by Charles_Byrd
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A posthumous book written by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the former head of the Catholic church, claimed that pornography, homosexual clubs and pedophilia had taken root within the church. Click for Full Text!
On New Year's Resolution
Post Date: 2023-01-22 23:55:34 by Charles_Byrd
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Merry 5th Day of Christmas! It's New Year's resolution time. Click for Full Text!
Fifty Years Post-Roe, Anglicans and Episcopalians Diverge on Abortion
Post Date: 2023-01-22 23:39:07 by Charles_Byrd
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The Episcopal Church and Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) continue to diverge in social policy and theological belief surrounding bodily autonomy and the sanctity of human life. Those viewpoints were on display January 20 as the ACNA hosted a service of morning prayer preceding the National March for Life. Two hours later, the Episcopal Church Office of Government Relations hosted a conference call titled “Roe 50 Years Later: Faith Communities’ Response to a Post-Roe America.” The latter discussion was framed to “explore where the pro- choice faith community goes from here.” Click for Full Text!
The Large CRTechism
Post Date: 2023-01-22 22:42:26 by Charles_Byrd
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CPH’s streak of publishing great resources has come to a spectacular end, a veritable crash-and-burn. To be more precise, the recently published annotated Large Catechism has a lot of great stuff in it: outstanding theologians and commentary on the Large Catechism, including, of course, the text itself. But like unto the classic metaphor of excrement in the ice cream, consumption of this book requires diligence with both the eye and the spoon. A lot of virtual ink has already been spilled on social media, as the excrementa are being sifted from the delights to the palate. Click for Full Text!
MINISTRY SPOTLIGHT: Love One International
Post Date: 2023-01-20 01:15:24 by Charles_Byrd
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Love One International began in 2012, focused around its Love One Center in Uganda, helping critically ill children that need medical care, restoring them to health and returning them to home. Click for Full Text!
35 Black Churches to Receive Total of $4 Million for Preservation Work
Post Date: 2023-01-20 00:38:20 by Charles_Byrd
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Nearly three dozen historic Black religious sites will receive a $4 million infusion of funding to help them with renovations and preservation of their buildings across the country. Click for Full Text!
Order or Chaos?
Post Date: 2023-01-18 01:31:20 by Charles_Byrd
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I have been thinking lately about the book of Genesis, specifically the first three or four chapters. Not as science or as history, but as anthropology and as foundational for natural law. Click for Full Text!
End Time: Collapse of Civilization- The Word of God tells us that a civilization collapses from within
Post Date: 2023-01-18 00:22:50 by Charles_Byrd
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The Word of God tells us that a civilization collapses from within; one person at a time, like a pebble tossed into a peaceful lake, causing a ripple effect that creates a disturbance across the entire surface of the water. However before the peaceful water can be altered, the pebble must cause it to lose its stability. “…For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” (James 1:6 b-8) Click for Full Text!
The church must speak out
Post Date: 2023-01-15 18:32:02 by Charles_Byrd
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Churches have remained publicly quiet for decades on the moral issues of the day so as not to appear too controversial or too political. As a result, public debate is often left to those without a biblical worldview. The consequences of this passivity have contributed to the unraveling of American civil society. It is way past time to end the silence. The Progressive Elites talk endlessly about "democracy," but their intention is typically a ruse to implement a top-down liberal agenda. They allow normalizing pedophilia, trafficking children for sex, sexually grooming kids, encouraging transgender surgery for minors, and promoting unlimited abortion and gay marriage. These actions ...
Want a better life? Go to church
Post Date: 2023-01-15 18:29:59 by Charles_Byrd
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Is religion good for society? One man who would answer in the affirmative is Gouverneur Morris, the founding father who spoke at the Constitutional Convention more than anyone else. He originated the phrase “we the people of the United States.” He once said something that virtually all of the founding fathers would have agreed with: “Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.” Click for Full Text!
Death of the Christian God in the hearts of all humans: Why America and W. Europe are committing suicide
Post Date: 2023-01-15 18:07:39 by Charles_Byrd
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“At present, science has no satisfactory answer to the question of the origin of life on the earth. Perhaps the appearance of life on the earth is a miracle. Scientists are reluctant to accept that view, but their choices are limited: either life was created on the earth by the will of a being outside the grasp of scientific understanding, or it evolved on our planet spontaneously, through chemical reactions occurring in nonliving matter lying on the surface of the planet. The first theory places the question of the origin of life beyond the reach of scientific inquiry. It is a statement of faith in the power of a Supreme Being not subject to the laws of science. The second theory is ...
Old Testament: Micah 6:1-8 (Epiphany 4: Series A)
Post Date: 2023-01-15 17:53:52 by Charles_Byrd
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Our Old Testament text for Epiphany 4 is certainly a challenge. It is tricky because there is no Gospel in our text whatsoever. Micah 6:1-8 is an accusing message of Micah who is issuing a warning and providing an explicit opportunity for people to do the right thing in order to please the Lord. This pericope is an “elaborate representation of a legal case of “Yahweh verses Israel,” in which God brings a grievance against His people.”[1] Click for Full Text!
COP discusses Synod joys, concerns
Post Date: 2023-01-13 01:15:58 by Charles_Byrd
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The Rev. Dr. R. Lee Hagan, president of the LCMS Missouri District and newly elected chairman of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) Council of Presidents (COP), began the COP’s Nov. 14–16 meeting by noting, “Our pastors gather in their circuits to study Scripture and the Confessions. We gather for the same reason. This is the most important thing we can do.” During their meeting, the members of the COP studied Titus, the second article of the Augsburg Confession and its Apology, and the priesthood of all believers and the Office of the Holy Ministry. The Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison, LCMS president, began his report to the COP with a historical review of ...
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