@gizmorazaar @PresbyInn Can I suggest the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod? Is there one near? It might be a smaller leap than going PCA.
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Charles R Schulz 🦬
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Charles R Schulz 🦬
@concoschulz
Child of God, husband, father, LCMS pastor, CUC professor, recipient of immeasurable grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Dexter, MI 가입일 Eylül 2015
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@PresbyInn My current Anglo-Catholic parish honestly isn't working for me. I've been thinking of hitting up the PCA church in town, so we'll see how that goes...
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Haven't gone to a Catholic Mass in 18 months. No one from the parish has called/texted asking where we've been.
This would be unheard of in most Protestant churches.
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In today's lesson, the Lord tells us we are the salt of the earth. Don't lose your saltiness. How can salt lose its flavor? Ancient salt wasn't pure. Exposed to moisture, the salt leached out, leaving the residue. May His Word always have a place in us that we may remain His salt
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Today being the Presentation of our Lord and Candlemas, the light was installed. Maybe I should take down my sign
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We have a dark stairwell leading up to our school’s Theology division. Today I added an interpretive sign.
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@MrGattopardoSir @PouncedeLeon2 @CatholicKyle Theology must be done on the basis of the text of Scripture not a priori limitations.
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@concoschulz @PouncedeLeon2 @CatholicKyle This is one of the biggest and most harmful misunderstandings. Christ was never abandoned by the Father. The Trinity are always united/ inseparable. Christ is citing Psalm 22 to give people one last hint at who He is. He’s revealing his divine identity, not feeling abandoned.
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"For your penance, pray 3 Hail Mary's..."
"Father, could you give me a more appropriate penance?"
"Very well. Go be crucified, die, and go to hell."
"Oh, I can't do that."
"No? Then go pray your Hail Mary's. The work has already been done."
- Confession with a French priest
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@PouncedeLeon2 @CatholicKyle Ah but Christ did suffer the punishment of hell on the cross, right? Cry of dereliction: forsaken by God the Father.
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@CatholicKyle Wow, surprisingly approaching the gospel, well said (although Christ didn't suffer punishment in hell)... now drop the doing penance part and trust in the completed work of Christ on the cross.
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A poignant moment: at a hymn sing among church worker students, you notice that the student who lives with a life-threatening illness is always picking Easter hymns even in Epiphany. Thanks be to Jesus for the courage to face death in the knowledge that He triumphs.
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(Panarion 70:15,1, written about 375 AD). This is the only reference I know of in which an early Church Father complains of a sectarian application of the principle of "prayer fellowship."
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"But the worst, most fearful thing of all is that they will not pray with someone even if he is plainly respectable and they have nothing to accuse him of—no charge of fornication, adultery or covetousness, but simply membership in the church."
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This may be of interest. Epiphanius complains against the Audians (who differed in that they believed God had a body) because they did not pray with other Christians:
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I noticed several years ago that already 18 year olds arrived to the small Christian U where I taught terrified to speak any personal opinion. I labored mightily to convince them that they were in a place where we could disagree and still care for one another. HS taught them fear
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Melanie Phillips delivers a chilling diagnosis of the West's intellectual crisis: Ideology has replaced knowledge, and reason itself is under siege. Key points from her 4:37 clip: - Modern orthodoxies (multiculturalism, lifestyle equivalence, etc.) are treated as absolute moral goods. - Challenge them → you're not just wrong; you're evil, standing against human/planetary betterment. - Dissent must be silenced: no platform, no debate, no hearing. - Evidence contradicting the ideology is dismissed as lies or "not facts." - Universities—once crucibles of reason—are now engines destroying it, while claiming moral superiority. - Result: Civil discourse dies. Replaced by insult weaponized to shut people down. This isn't just about politics—it's the erosion of objective truth, evidence-based reasoning, and the ability to disagree without demonization. We're witnessing the destruction of reason itself. 4:37 clip laying bare how ideology has become inimical to rationality 👇 When ideology trumps evidence and disagreement becomes "evil," what survives of open society? Where do you see this dynamic strongest right now—in academia, media, politics, or everyday life?
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I went to bed after checking the Bear’s score vs the Packers. Hopeless. Our QB had even twisted his ankle and hobbled off the field. I woke up this morning and they had won! They’re going to make a believer out of me yet. This reminds me of the Lions a few yrs ago. Hope wins.
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If the Iranian regime falls and stability follows, Iranians from all over the world will return, with their new and varied ideas. It will be quite a mix, with not a few well-taught Christians streaming in.
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"Steinmann lays out here a foundation that doubtless will provide the basis for all subsequent discussions of biblical chronology, an indispensable preliminary to a proper understanding of the biblical narrative."
—Eugene H. Merrill, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Old Testament Studies, Dallas Theological Seminary, Distinguished Professor of Old Testament Interpretation, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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I cheered for the Lions the last couple years and looked what happened. I’m now in Chicago for the Bears. What an effect! For the right price I’ll root for your favorite team. Results guaranteed. ;)
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@LutheranAnswers As a Lutheran I have more than once been praised because someone thought my faith was guided by the insights of MLK.
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I'm a LUTHERAN.
That means I believe that THIS GREAT SAINT restored the CHURCH on Earth by REMOVING 7 books from the BIBLE for being RACIST
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It’s no accident that as Linus recites scripture & says, “Fear not…”, he drops his security blanket. He always had his blanket. Powerful.
Charles Schwartz knew then. “If we don’t do it, who will?”
We are still faced with that same question every day, even more so now than ever.
There was nothing like a quiet evening with the family and sitting down to watch A Charlie Brown Christmas. There still isn’t. ❤️
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“These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with every sort of plague in the wilderness.”
1 Samuel 4:8 Thus the Philistines garble the history Israel. Not everyone speaks or acts truly in the Bible. But the record of the omniscient narrator is correct. bible.com/bible/59/1sa.4…
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Old low tech church records at a Lutheran church in Chicago.
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