No other cause
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In the things of God
There is no buying and selling of any sort in the things of God. Though we have our treasure-chest, it is not made up of purchase-money, as of a religion that has its price. On the monthly day, if he likes, each puts in a small donation; but only if it be his pleasure, and only if he be able: for there is no compulsion; all is voluntary. These gifts are, as it were, piety’s deposit fund. For they are not taken thence and spent on feasts, and drinking-bouts, and eating-houses, but to support and bury poor people, to supply … Continue reading In the things of God
We are excluded
For see that you do not give a further ground for the charge of irreligion, by taking away religious liberty, and forbidding free choice of deity, so that I may no longer worship according to my inclination, but am compelled to worship against it. Not even a human being would care to have unwilling homage rendered him; and so the very Egyptians have been permitted the legal use of their ridiculous superstition, liberty to make gods of birds and beasts, nay, to condemn to death any One who kills a god of their sort. Every province even, and every city, … Continue reading We are excluded
Larger taxes to see the larger gods
The family deities you call Lares, you exercise a domestic authority over, pledging them, selling them, changing them—making sometimes a cooking-pot of a Saturn, a firepan of a Minerva, as one or other happens to be worn done, or broken in its long sacred use, or as the family head feels the pressure of some more sacred home necessity. In like manner, by public law you disgrace your state gods, putting them in the auction-catalogue, and making them a source of revenue. Men seek to get the Capitol, as they seek to get the herb market, under the voice of … Continue reading Larger taxes to see the larger gods
School reverses illegal ban of Jesus Club
https://aclj.org/religious-liberty/victory-school-reverses-ban-on-student-led-jesus-club DONATEYour gift doubled SHARECOPY LINKOTHERVICTORY: School Reverses Course After Illegally Banning Student-Led Jesus ClubBy Kelsey E. McGee and Nathan Moelker November 143 min read Religious LibertyA A Listen tothis article In a major win for student religious liberty, the … Continue reading School reverses illegal ban of Jesus Club
A God moment…
Not even close to perfectly or as much as He is worth or deserves! Sometimes, you just want to publicly tell others how awesome your wife is! Especially, in front of your kids. I guess I just had a God moment… “We love him, because he first loved us.” – Bible “For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” – Romans 5:7,8 When these truths sink in there is … Continue reading A God moment…
Let’s get on home
Colossians 3:16ing it all the way home! “And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. LET THE WORD OF CHRIST DWELL IN YOU RICHLY in all wisdom; TEACH AND ADMONISHING ONE ANOTHER IN PSALMS AND HYMNS AND SPIRITUAL SONGS, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.” – Colossians 3:15-17 For those of you who speak Genz … Continue reading Let’s get on home
Clement of Alexandria from the late 2nd century in answering the criticism raised by both Greeks and Jews of his day: Since it comes next to reply to the objections alleged against us by Greeks and Jews; and since, in some of the questions previously discussed, the sects also who adhere to other teaching give their help, it will be well first to clear away the obstacles before us, and then, prepared thus for the solution of the difficulties, to advance to the succeeding Miscellany. First, then, they make this objection to us, saying, that they ought not to believe … Continue reading
Seek the peace
“Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon; Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them; Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished. And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray … Continue reading Seek the peace
My very dear friend
Thou hast indeed enjoined upon me, my very dear friend, that I should bring to light the Valentinian doctrines, concealed, as their votaries imagine; that I should exhibit their diversity, and compose a treatise in refutation of them. I therefore have undertaken—showing that they spring from Simon, the father of all heretics—to exhibit both their doctrines and successions, and to set forth arguments against them all. Irenaeus of Lyons. 1885. “Irenæus against Heresies.” In The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus, edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe, 1:414. The Ante-Nicene Fathers. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature … Continue reading My very dear friend
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