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Maurice McCracken

Maurice McCracken

@Mos_aic

Mostly wrong, totally loved. Leader @christchurchlp

Se unió Eylül 2010
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Maurice McCracken
Maurice McCracken@Mos_aic·
@Philip_Goff Of course, I agree with that. And somehow we believe Jesus death is connected to that enthusiastic welcome. I don't think this parable tells us *how* at all (barring that the father takes all of the cost of the son's rebellion on himself). Happy Easter to you!
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Philip Goff
Philip Goff@Philip_Goff·
It can be that too. But I think you're missing a very important aspect of the moral message. It's not just that punishment doesn't happen. It's that punishment of some kind would be expected, the son himself expected it. But the father shocks the listener by showing no interest in that, and throwing a party instead.
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Philip Goff
Philip Goff@Philip_Goff·
"Jesus Wasn't Punished for Our Sins." My Good Friday article. Link below and in bio.
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Maurice McCracken
Maurice McCracken@Mos_aic·
@Philip_Goff In the context of 15:1-2 and 16:15, and with the postscript with the other brother,I think it's about how God celebrates sinners repenting more than the efforts of good people to be righteous. I don't think it says anything about the mechanics of that.
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Philip Goff
Philip Goff@Philip_Goff·
@Mos_aic What do you think the message of the prodigal son parable is?
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Maurice McCracken
Maurice McCracken@Mos_aic·
@Philip_Goff Well yes it's almost as if every parable doesn't contain every doctrine. You'd be hard pushed to demonstrate Christus Victor from Luke 15 as there's no battle or enemy mentioned.
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Philip Goff
Philip Goff@Philip_Goff·
Interesting take. Crucially, there's no suggestion of punishment. You're can't analytically argue what the message is in a given parable. It seems clear to me the message is that punishment is not at all on the mind of the father; he just wants to run out and welcome the son back with open arms.
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Maurice McCracken
Maurice McCracken@Mos_aic·
@Philip_Goff A parable where the father takes the cost of the son's sin upon himself? Not sure it's at odds.
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Philip Goff
Philip Goff@Philip_Goff·
@Mos_aic No, not necessarily. I'm pretty okay with the Nicene stuff. I think more the worry is it seems at odds with the morality expressed in prodigal son parable.
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Tom Wright
Tom Wright@thomaswright08·
J.D. Vance in April 2025: “I think a lot of European nations were right about our invasion of Iraq. Frankly, if the Europeans had been a little more independent, and a little more willing to stand up, then maybe we could have saved the entire world from the strategic disaster that was the American-led invasion of Iraq…I don’t want the Europeans to just do whatever the Americans tell them to do. I don’t think it’s in their interest, and I don’t think it’s in our interests, either.” unherd.com/2025/04/transc…
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Kathleen Stock
Kathleen Stock@Docstockk·
Interesting how some women who valiantly fought gender wars now using same tropes beloved of transactivists to defend decriminalisation of late term abortion. - AS IF there will be thousands of sinister men who want to predate in changing rooms/ women lining up to get rid of their babies! (there won't be, but still need legal deterrent for the few, especially with pills-by-post in the mix). - AS IF anyone would do that if they were not totally desperate/ in danger/ traumatised etc! (fact check: there are lots of different motivations, humans are diverse. Check out the stories of actual matricide! The idealisation of 50% of the population is stupid wherever you find it ). - It is MY RIGHT to do what I want to my body, regardless of consquences for others ( how is that not just abject narcissism and selfishness? We aren't living in the 18th Century. Every possible form of contraception was already available. How can it be ok to prefer to try and get rid of a later term baby - especially when you have to go through labour either way - rather than deliver it for adoption?). Starting to wonder where transactivists got this stuff from🧐
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Christopher Snowdon
Christopher Snowdon@cjsnowdon·
Thwarted in their attempts to kill people when they’re nearly dead, the political class have settled for killing people when they’re nearly born.
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Maurice McCracken@Mos_aic·
@RDLaverty In several cases near here it's been conservative congregations who sold the buildings to developers.
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Rhys Laverty
Rhys Laverty@RDLaverty·
I'd put good money on evangelicals having often attempted to buy these for church plants/expansions previously, but been either refused by stubborn, dying liberal congregations or been unable to due to various charity-based hurdles.
Samuel Leeds@samuel_leeds

I wanna buy churches like this that are shutting down across England. So if you know a church that's for sale and potentially closing down, let me know. I wanna buy a church. I don't care if it's got planning permission to return to flats redeveloped. I don't care. I wanna buy it. I don't care how profitable the conversion will be. If it was built as a church, I believe it needs to stay as a church. I want to save churches like this one from being shut down and sold off to developers all across the UK. I love making profit in property, but when someone's being built as a church to honour Jesus Christ, that's a no no. There's revival coming in England and we need to keep our churches open. Ready for what’s to come. Is this a good idea you would support?

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Maurice McCracken@Mos_aic·
@lpoolcouncil voi are slowly removing scooters from circulation, when will Bolt take over? At the moment it's basically impossible to find a scooter.
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Daniel Heaton
Daniel Heaton@2D0XPS·
If you lined up a pair of newborn booties for each of these babies who never got to wear one, it would stretch from Big Ben to St Alban's Cathedral.
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Right To Life UK@RightToLifeUK

🚨BREAKING: “A NATIONAL TRAGEDY & SCANDAL” - 300,000 ABORTED BABIES IN ONE YEAR in the UK. Today, the 2023 abortion statistics have been released, revealing a new record number of abortions: an estimated 299,614 across the UK. This is a national tragedy & national scandal. 🧵1/

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Andrew Neil
Andrew Neil@afneil·
While global media attention has switched to Venezuela, worth pointing this out; Iran enters tenth day of protests with 29 killed, 1,203 civilians detained so far.
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Faezeh Alavi
Faezeh Alavi@SFaeze_Alavi·
I would like to ask my non-Iranian followers to spread the news of Iran more than previous days🙏 Today, many Iranian accounts don't have access to the internet to spread the word . We need help of the international community 🇮🇱🇺🇸 Khamenei is pure evil.
Faezeh Alavi@SFaeze_Alavi

Today, in a speech, Khamenei waged an absolute war against Iranian protesters, calling our warriors "agitators" for whom there would be no forgiveness. He orders to oppress Iranian people.

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Maurice McCracken
Maurice McCracken@Mos_aic·
@DaveK48 It's the bit about all the science books saying the same things if you threw them all away and rewrote them that I'm dubious about tbh.
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Dave K
Dave K@DaveK48·
@Mos_aic He has something of a point if you think religious books are reflections on unchanging reality, but (if like the bible) they are based on events/revelation that occurred in history the argument falls down.
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Preston Sprinkle
Preston Sprinkle@PrestonSprinkle·
“China first” is not a Christian value. “Nigeria first” is not a Christian value. “America first” is not a Christian value. “England first” is not a Christian value. Christians are members of a global, blood-bought, multi-ethnic kingdom. And our allegiance is to a global God, not a tribal deity.
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Maurice McCracken@Mos_aic·
@Calvins_Hat @robinbarfield78 According to someone who was there the talk had 2 points. "Jesus is like superman" and "Jesus is not like Superman". I expect most children will remember this.
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Calvin's Hat
Calvin's Hat@Calvins_Hat·
@robinbarfield78 What is the abiding memory that we wish the child to have from this? That God is fun? He's illy? He's just one of us? That he offers us entertainment, but in a poorer quality with more cringe than the world can offer?
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Maurice McCracken
Maurice McCracken@Mos_aic·
@DanLeafe1 Again, I don't know anything about your situation but I suspect you are surviving on more than half a ministers salary plus half a minimum wage job. You are surprisingly carefree in suggesting this for other people.
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Dan Leafe
Dan Leafe@DanLeafe1·
It was not me who stated that for a minister to be bi-vocational, would necessitate "a well paid and in demand job"!
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𝘼𝙨𝙝 𝘾𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙝𝙖𝙢@MrAshCunningham·
There aren’t fewer men willing to be ministers, there are fewer men who fit the new criteria. We’ve functionally decided that the litmus test for ministry, on top of 1Tim 3, is that a man must be a) Single b) Married to a lawyer/doctor or c) Willing to go hungry for many years
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