Tag: Justice
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Season After Pentecost: The Psalms Passage – The psalmist takes up a cause
“Fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is no one who does good.” (Psalms 14:1) Psalms of lament, or venting? “The Lord looks down from heaven on humankind to see if there are any who are wise, who seek after God. They have all gone…
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Season After Pentecost: The Psalms Passage – Preacher and Seek speak out
Preacher: “O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever. Seeker: “Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, those he redeemed from trouble and gathered in from the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.” Preacher: We are spread…
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Fourth Sunday of Lent 2016: The Gospel Passage – The Story of the Prodigal Son
“Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, “This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.” So he told them this parable . . . “Luke 15:1-3 Actually, before the story of the Prodigal Son Jesus told two other…
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Third Sunday After Epiphany: The Epistle Passage – A whole new take on the “body”
“For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.” The…
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FOOD . . . Eat so your brother/sister does not stumble, but you do not starve
“If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother for whom Christ died. Do not allow what you consider good to be spoken of as evil. For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking,…
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CONCERNING MARRIAGE . . . . It matters greatly
“Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good for a man not to marry. But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband. The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife’s…
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USELESS CHATTER . . . Listen to how “useless” it can be
“Therefore he that speaketh unrighteous things cannot be hid: neither shall vengeance, when it punisheth, pass by him. For inquisition shall be made into the counsels of the ungodly: and the sound of his words shall come unto the Lord for the manifestation of his wicked deeds. For the ear of jealousy heareth all things:…
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USELESS CHATTER . . . There is too much of it
“Why do you boast of evil, you mighty man? Why do you boast all day long, you who are a disgrace in the eyes of God? Your tongue plots destruction; it is like a sharpened razor, you who practice deceit. You love evil rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking the truth. You love every…
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SIN . . . When it is really sinful! Part II
“If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or…
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SIN . . . A new definition
“To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” They answered him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be…
A Simple Desire 