#calvinist — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #calvinist, aggregated by home.social.
-
John Calvin, 16th-century reformer, on Hebrews 13:2's stranger-entertaining angels: skeptics who call this rare miss the point entirely — per Matthew 25, we receive not angels but Christ himself in the poor. Hospitality, he says, is especially acceptable to God. Recently I was told that *praying* for refugees is "an extremely complex issue." Christ, apparently, has become a foreign policy dilemma.
#johncalvin #calvinist #bible #christian #compassion #refugees
-
John Calvin, 16th-century reformer, on Hebrews 13:2's stranger-entertaining angels: skeptics who call this rare miss the point entirely — per Matthew 25, we receive not angels but Christ himself in the poor. Hospitality, he says, is especially acceptable to God. Recently I was told that *praying* for refugees is "an extremely complex issue." Christ, apparently, has become a foreign policy dilemma.
#johncalvin #calvinist #bible #christian #compassion #refugees
-
John Calvin, 16th-century reformer, on Hebrews 13:2's stranger-entertaining angels: skeptics who call this rare miss the point entirely — per Matthew 25, we receive not angels but Christ himself in the poor. Hospitality, he says, is especially acceptable to God. Recently I was told that *praying* for refugees is "an extremely complex issue." Christ, apparently, has become a foreign policy dilemma.
#johncalvin #calvinist #bible #christian #compassion #refugees
-
John Calvin, 16th-century reformer, on Hebrews 13:2's stranger-entertaining angels: skeptics who call this rare miss the point entirely — per Matthew 25, we receive not angels but Christ himself in the poor. Hospitality, he says, is especially acceptable to God. Recently I was told that *praying* for refugees is "an extremely complex issue." Christ, apparently, has become a foreign policy dilemma.
#johncalvin #calvinist #bible #christian #compassion #refugees
-
John Calvin, 16th-century reformer, on Hebrews 13:2's stranger-entertaining angels: skeptics who call this rare miss the point entirely — per Matthew 25, we receive not angels but Christ himself in the poor. Hospitality, he says, is especially acceptable to God. Recently I was told that *praying* for refugees is "an extremely complex issue." Christ, apparently, has become a foreign policy dilemma.
#johncalvin #calvinist #bible #christian #compassion #refugees
-
Calvin, commenting on Isaiah 58, was rather direct: worship through empty ceremonies is useless. God demands an upright life with your neighbors and willing assistance whenever needed. Modern theological innovation? The regulative principle has brilliantly transformed this into elaborate rubrics for Sunday-afternoon and weekday morning worship that somehow leave precious little room for neighbor-care. Truly inspired scriptural exegesis.
-
Calvin, commenting on Isaiah 58, was rather direct: worship through empty ceremonies is useless. God demands an upright life with your neighbors and willing assistance whenever needed. Modern theological innovation? The regulative principle has brilliantly transformed this into elaborate rubrics for Sunday-afternoon and weekday morning worship that somehow leave precious little room for neighbor-care. Truly inspired scriptural exegesis.
-
Calvin, commenting on Isaiah 58, was rather direct: worship through empty ceremonies is useless. God demands an upright life with your neighbors and willing assistance whenever needed. Modern theological innovation? The regulative principle has brilliantly transformed this into elaborate rubrics for Sunday-afternoon and weekday morning worship that somehow leave precious little room for neighbor-care. Truly inspired scriptural exegesis.
-
Calvin, commenting on Isaiah 58, was rather direct: worship through empty ceremonies is useless. God demands an upright life with your neighbors and willing assistance whenever needed. Modern theological innovation? The regulative principle has brilliantly transformed this into elaborate rubrics for Sunday-afternoon and weekday morning worship that somehow leave precious little room for neighbor-care. Truly inspired scriptural exegesis.
-
Calvin, commenting on Isaiah 58, was rather direct: worship through empty ceremonies is useless. God demands an upright life with your neighbors and willing assistance whenever needed. Modern theological innovation? The regulative principle has brilliantly transformed this into elaborate rubrics for Sunday-afternoon and weekday morning worship that somehow leave precious little room for neighbor-care. Truly inspired scriptural exegesis.
-
Polhill—Anglican Calvinist—observes inhumanity in his era exceeded what existed before Christ arrived to deliver a Lecture of Love. The Incarnation provided two things: a renewed command to love, and a new motive—God giving his Son. Deriving neighborly ethics from orthodox Christology is precisely what Polhill does. Fewer orthodox pastors today would describe the Incarnation’s purpose that way.
#anglican #calvinist #christlike #christian #holiness #incarnation #reformedtheology
-
Polhill—Anglican Calvinist—observes inhumanity in his era exceeded what existed before Christ arrived to deliver a Lecture of Love. The Incarnation provided two things: a renewed command to love, and a new motive—God giving his Son. Deriving neighborly ethics from orthodox Christology is precisely what Polhill does. Fewer orthodox pastors today would describe the Incarnation’s purpose that way.
#anglican #calvinist #christlike #christian #holiness #incarnation #reformedtheology
-
Polhill—Anglican Calvinist—observes inhumanity in his era exceeded what existed before Christ arrived to deliver a Lecture of Love. The Incarnation provided two things: a renewed command to love, and a new motive—God giving his Son. Deriving neighborly ethics from orthodox Christology is precisely what Polhill does. Fewer orthodox pastors today would describe the Incarnation’s purpose that way.
#anglican #calvinist #christlike #christian #holiness #incarnation #reformedtheology
-
Polhill—Anglican Calvinist—observes inhumanity in his era exceeded what existed before Christ arrived to deliver a Lecture of Love. The Incarnation provided two things: a renewed command to love, and a new motive—God giving his Son. Deriving neighborly ethics from orthodox Christology is precisely what Polhill does. Fewer orthodox pastors today would describe the Incarnation’s purpose that way.
#anglican #calvinist #christlike #christian #holiness #incarnation #reformedtheology
-
Polhill—Anglican Calvinist—observes inhumanity in his era exceeded what existed before Christ arrived to deliver a Lecture of Love. The Incarnation provided two things: a renewed command to love, and a new motive—God giving his Son. Deriving neighborly ethics from orthodox Christology is precisely what Polhill does. Fewer orthodox pastors today would describe the Incarnation’s purpose that way.
#anglican #calvinist #christlike #christian #holiness #incarnation #reformedtheology
-
@rawstory.com
Pete #Hegseth denied time to respond to accusations of 'incompetence' during House hearing
Tom Boggioni
April 29, 2026 12:46PM ET
https://www.rawstory.com/hegseth-incompetence-hearing-denied/
#iran #trump #calvinist #kegsbreath{ed: we r officially at performative hearing stage of this timeline}
-
@rawstory.com
Pete #Hegseth denied time to respond to accusations of 'incompetence' during House hearing
Tom Boggioni
April 29, 2026 12:46PM ET
https://www.rawstory.com/hegseth-incompetence-hearing-denied/
#iran #trump #calvinist #kegsbreath{ed: we r officially at performative hearing stage of this timeline}
-
@rawstory.com
Pete #Hegseth denied time to respond to accusations of 'incompetence' during House hearing
Tom Boggioni
April 29, 2026 12:46PM ET
https://www.rawstory.com/hegseth-incompetence-hearing-denied/
#iran #trump #calvinist #kegsbreath{ed: we r officially at performative hearing stage of this timeline}
-
@rawstory.com
Pete #Hegseth denied time to respond to accusations of 'incompetence' during House hearing
Tom Boggioni
April 29, 2026 12:46PM ET
https://www.rawstory.com/hegseth-incompetence-hearing-denied/
#iran #trump #calvinist #kegsbreath{ed: we r officially at performative hearing stage of this timeline}
-
@rawstory.com
Pete #Hegseth denied time to respond to accusations of 'incompetence' during House hearing
Tom Boggioni
April 29, 2026 12:46PM ET
https://www.rawstory.com/hegseth-incompetence-hearing-denied/
#iran #trump #calvinist #kegsbreath{ed: we r officially at performative hearing stage of this timeline}
-
John Calvin—Swiss Reformer, preaching Deuteronomy—observes that prosperity does something insidious. You stop remembering your own wretchedness. You feel exempted. No longer of the common sort. And that kills compassion entirely. You forget what others endure. Some respond by locating a minor inconvenience and suggesting the genuinely suffering simply replicate their heroism. Calvin would not have been impressed.
-
John Calvin—Swiss Reformer, preaching Deuteronomy—observes that prosperity does something insidious. You stop remembering your own wretchedness. You feel exempted. No longer of the common sort. And that kills compassion entirely. You forget what others endure. Some respond by locating a minor inconvenience and suggesting the genuinely suffering simply replicate their heroism. Calvin would not have been impressed.
-
John Calvin—Swiss Reformer, preaching Deuteronomy—observes that prosperity does something insidious. You stop remembering your own wretchedness. You feel exempted. No longer of the common sort. And that kills compassion entirely. You forget what others endure. Some respond by locating a minor inconvenience and suggesting the genuinely suffering simply replicate their heroism. Calvin would not have been impressed.
-
John Calvin—Swiss Reformer, preaching Deuteronomy—observes that prosperity does something insidious. You stop remembering your own wretchedness. You feel exempted. No longer of the common sort. And that kills compassion entirely. You forget what others endure. Some respond by locating a minor inconvenience and suggesting the genuinely suffering simply replicate their heroism. Calvin would not have been impressed.
-
John Calvin—Swiss Reformer, preaching Deuteronomy—observes that prosperity does something insidious. You stop remembering your own wretchedness. You feel exempted. No longer of the common sort. And that kills compassion entirely. You forget what others endure. Some respond by locating a minor inconvenience and suggesting the genuinely suffering simply replicate their heroism. Calvin would not have been impressed.
-
Nicholas Byfield was a Calvinistic, Puritan minister. Here he speaks of compassion as being a proof of our spiritual state, citing bible passages about generosity, watering other peoples, aiding those needing warmth, visiting orphans and widows. These qualities in us prove that we are true neighbors and good Samaritans
Are you following religious leaders who point to other spiritual metrics at the expense of the biblical ones?
#chistian #puritans #calvinist #biblical #colossians #presbyterian -
Nicholas Byfield was a Calvinistic, Puritan minister. Here he speaks of compassion as being a proof of our spiritual state, citing bible passages about generosity, watering other peoples, aiding those needing warmth, visiting orphans and widows. These qualities in us prove that we are true neighbors and good Samaritans
Are you following religious leaders who point to other spiritual metrics at the expense of the biblical ones?
#chistian #puritans #calvinist #biblical #colossians #presbyterian -
Nicholas Byfield was a Calvinistic, Puritan minister. Here he speaks of compassion as being a proof of our spiritual state, citing bible passages about generosity, watering other peoples, aiding those needing warmth, visiting orphans and widows. These qualities in us prove that we are true neighbors and good Samaritans
Are you following religious leaders who point to other spiritual metrics at the expense of the biblical ones?
#chistian #puritans #calvinist #biblical #colossians #presbyterian -
Nicholas Byfield was a Calvinistic, Puritan minister. Here he speaks of compassion as being a proof of our spiritual state, citing bible passages about generosity, watering other peoples, aiding those needing warmth, visiting orphans and widows. These qualities in us prove that we are true neighbors and good Samaritans
Are you following religious leaders who point to other spiritual metrics at the expense of the biblical ones?
#chistian #puritans #calvinist #biblical #colossians #presbyterian -
Nicholas Byfield was a Calvinistic, Puritan minister. Here he speaks of compassion as being a proof of our spiritual state, citing bible passages about generosity, watering other peoples, aiding those needing warmth, visiting orphans and widows. These qualities in us prove that we are true neighbors and good Samaritans
Are you following religious leaders who point to other spiritual metrics at the expense of the biblical ones?
#chistian #puritans #calvinist #biblical #colossians #presbyterian -
Anglican Thomas Taylor preached on Christ refusing to turn stones to bread. He noted that certain landlords had essentially mastered this trick anyway — extracting rent from tenants with nowhere to go. His verdict: crueler than Satan, who’d at least have let Jesus eat. One might argue property rights. Taylor would note that scripture doesn’t really offer an opt-out clause.
How do you respond to the hungry?
#christian #rent #calvinist -
Anglican Thomas Taylor preached on Christ refusing to turn stones to bread. He noted that certain landlords had essentially mastered this trick anyway — extracting rent from tenants with nowhere to go. His verdict: crueler than Satan, who’d at least have let Jesus eat. One might argue property rights. Taylor would note that scripture doesn’t really offer an opt-out clause.
How do you respond to the hungry?
#christian #rent #calvinist -
Anglican Thomas Taylor preached on Christ refusing to turn stones to bread. He noted that certain landlords had essentially mastered this trick anyway — extracting rent from tenants with nowhere to go. His verdict: crueler than Satan, who’d at least have let Jesus eat. One might argue property rights. Taylor would note that scripture doesn’t really offer an opt-out clause.
How do you respond to the hungry?
#christian #rent #calvinist -
Anglican Thomas Taylor preached on Christ refusing to turn stones to bread. He noted that certain landlords had essentially mastered this trick anyway — extracting rent from tenants with nowhere to go. His verdict: crueler than Satan, who’d at least have let Jesus eat. One might argue property rights. Taylor would note that scripture doesn’t really offer an opt-out clause.
How do you respond to the hungry?
#christian #rent #calvinist -
Anglican Thomas Taylor preached on Christ refusing to turn stones to bread. He noted that certain landlords had essentially mastered this trick anyway — extracting rent from tenants with nowhere to go. His verdict: crueler than Satan, who’d at least have let Jesus eat. One might argue property rights. Taylor would note that scripture doesn’t really offer an opt-out clause.
How do you respond to the hungry?
#christian #rent #calvinist -
Richard Younge, a Calvinistic pamphleteer, makes the unsettling point that while grace is free, the presence—or glaring absence—of mercy toward the poor rather suggests something about the state of one’s soul. Not grace plus works, you understand—rather works as the unavoidable fruit. Curious, then, how some fret over prayer minutes yet balk at mercy.
#christian #devotions #grace #sin #blessed #sanctification #calvinist
-
Richard Younge, a Calvinistic pamphleteer, makes the unsettling point that while grace is free, the presence—or glaring absence—of mercy toward the poor rather suggests something about the state of one’s soul. Not grace plus works, you understand—rather works as the unavoidable fruit. Curious, then, how some fret over prayer minutes yet balk at mercy.
#christian #devotions #grace #sin #blessed #sanctification #calvinist
-
Richard Younge, a Calvinistic pamphleteer, makes the unsettling point that while grace is free, the presence—or glaring absence—of mercy toward the poor rather suggests something about the state of one’s soul. Not grace plus works, you understand—rather works as the unavoidable fruit. Curious, then, how some fret over prayer minutes yet balk at mercy.
#christian #devotions #grace #sin #blessed #sanctification #calvinist
-
Richard Younge, a Calvinistic pamphleteer, makes the unsettling point that while grace is free, the presence—or glaring absence—of mercy toward the poor rather suggests something about the state of one’s soul. Not grace plus works, you understand—rather works as the unavoidable fruit. Curious, then, how some fret over prayer minutes yet balk at mercy.
#christian #devotions #grace #sin #blessed #sanctification #calvinist
-
Richard Younge, a Calvinistic pamphleteer, makes the unsettling point that while grace is free, the presence—or glaring absence—of mercy toward the poor rather suggests something about the state of one’s soul. Not grace plus works, you understand—rather works as the unavoidable fruit. Curious, then, how some fret over prayer minutes yet balk at mercy.
#christian #devotions #grace #sin #blessed #sanctification #calvinist
-
Calvin teaches that the rich man’s guilt was not theft but indifference: he feasted while Lazarus starved at his gate. To neglect the poor when relief is within our power is, in effect, to destroy life by neglect. Yet how seldom this warning shapes our teaching on giving or charity. The question is not abstract theology but obedience: what suffering near you could already be relieved by your hand?
-
Calvin teaches that the rich man’s guilt was not theft but indifference: he feasted while Lazarus starved at his gate. To neglect the poor when relief is within our power is, in effect, to destroy life by neglect. Yet how seldom this warning shapes our teaching on giving or charity. The question is not abstract theology but obedience: what suffering near you could already be relieved by your hand?
-
Calvin teaches that the rich man’s guilt was not theft but indifference: he feasted while Lazarus starved at his gate. To neglect the poor when relief is within our power is, in effect, to destroy life by neglect. Yet how seldom this warning shapes our teaching on giving or charity. The question is not abstract theology but obedience: what suffering near you could already be relieved by your hand?
-
Calvin teaches that the rich man’s guilt was not theft but indifference: he feasted while Lazarus starved at his gate. To neglect the poor when relief is within our power is, in effect, to destroy life by neglect. Yet how seldom this warning shapes our teaching on giving or charity. The question is not abstract theology but obedience: what suffering near you could already be relieved by your hand?
-
Calvin teaches that the rich man’s guilt was not theft but indifference: he feasted while Lazarus starved at his gate. To neglect the poor when relief is within our power is, in effect, to destroy life by neglect. Yet how seldom this warning shapes our teaching on giving or charity. The question is not abstract theology but obedience: what suffering near you could already be relieved by your hand?
-
Andrew Martin Fairbairn notes that Calvin’s Geneva became Protestant Europe’s spiritual Airbnb: refugees arrived from everywhere, discovered a surprisingly orderly church, and then went home—occasionally risking execution—to recreate it. One wonders whether today’s Calvinist strongholds still feel like refuges, or merely meetings.
#sanctuary #refugees #immigration #calvinist #christian #reformed
-
Andrew Martin Fairbairn notes that Calvin’s Geneva became Protestant Europe’s spiritual Airbnb: refugees arrived from everywhere, discovered a surprisingly orderly church, and then went home—occasionally risking execution—to recreate it. One wonders whether today’s Calvinist strongholds still feel like refuges, or merely meetings.
#sanctuary #refugees #immigration #calvinist #christian #reformed
-
Andrew Martin Fairbairn notes that Calvin’s Geneva became Protestant Europe’s spiritual Airbnb: refugees arrived from everywhere, discovered a surprisingly orderly church, and then went home—occasionally risking execution—to recreate it. One wonders whether today’s Calvinist strongholds still feel like refuges, or merely meetings.
#sanctuary #refugees #immigration #calvinist #christian #reformed
-
Andrew Martin Fairbairn notes that Calvin’s Geneva became Protestant Europe’s spiritual Airbnb: refugees arrived from everywhere, discovered a surprisingly orderly church, and then went home—occasionally risking execution—to recreate it. One wonders whether today’s Calvinist strongholds still feel like refuges, or merely meetings.
#sanctuary #refugees #immigration #calvinist #christian #reformed
-
Andrew Martin Fairbairn notes that Calvin’s Geneva became Protestant Europe’s spiritual Airbnb: refugees arrived from everywhere, discovered a surprisingly orderly church, and then went home—occasionally risking execution—to recreate it. One wonders whether today’s Calvinist strongholds still feel like refuges, or merely meetings.
#sanctuary #refugees #immigration #calvinist #christian #reformed
-
John Calvin, commenting on Titus 1:8, defines justice as upright dealing: ensuring each person receives what is properly due. True justice, he says, is a readiness to suffer loss oneself rather than wrong another in any way. In current debates over “biblical” versus “social” justice, Calvin’s measure presses a hard question: are we willing to bear cost ourselves so others are not deprived? How can you practice justice that refuses to profit from another’s loss?
#calvinist #nonviolence -
John Calvin, commenting on Titus 1:8, defines justice as upright dealing: ensuring each person receives what is properly due. True justice, he says, is a readiness to suffer loss oneself rather than wrong another in any way. In current debates over “biblical” versus “social” justice, Calvin’s measure presses a hard question: are we willing to bear cost ourselves so others are not deprived? How can you practice justice that refuses to profit from another’s loss?
#calvinist #nonviolence -
John Calvin, commenting on Titus 1:8, defines justice as upright dealing: ensuring each person receives what is properly due. True justice, he says, is a readiness to suffer loss oneself rather than wrong another in any way. In current debates over “biblical” versus “social” justice, Calvin’s measure presses a hard question: are we willing to bear cost ourselves so others are not deprived? How can you practice justice that refuses to profit from another’s loss?
#calvinist #nonviolence -
John Calvin, commenting on Titus 1:8, defines justice as upright dealing: ensuring each person receives what is properly due. True justice, he says, is a readiness to suffer loss oneself rather than wrong another in any way. In current debates over “biblical” versus “social” justice, Calvin’s measure presses a hard question: are we willing to bear cost ourselves so others are not deprived? How can you practice justice that refuses to profit from another’s loss?
#calvinist #nonviolence -
John Calvin, commenting on Titus 1:8, defines justice as upright dealing: ensuring each person receives what is properly due. True justice, he says, is a readiness to suffer loss oneself rather than wrong another in any way. In current debates over “biblical” versus “social” justice, Calvin’s measure presses a hard question: are we willing to bear cost ourselves so others are not deprived? How can you practice justice that refuses to profit from another’s loss?
#calvinist #nonviolence -
Richard Younge, a Calvinistic, English tract writer, argues that wealth is not absolute ownership but stewardship. The Master entrusts goods so the whole household may be cared for. Lavish self-spending, while others lack necessities, misuses that trust. This is not a call for coercion, but for conscience: wise, just, charitable use of what we hold. How will you steward what’s been placed in your hands?
-
Richard Younge, a Calvinistic, English tract writer, argues that wealth is not absolute ownership but stewardship. The Master entrusts goods so the whole household may be cared for. Lavish self-spending, while others lack necessities, misuses that trust. This is not a call for coercion, but for conscience: wise, just, charitable use of what we hold. How will you steward what’s been placed in your hands?
-
Richard Younge, a Calvinistic, English tract writer, argues that wealth is not absolute ownership but stewardship. The Master entrusts goods so the whole household may be cared for. Lavish self-spending, while others lack necessities, misuses that trust. This is not a call for coercion, but for conscience: wise, just, charitable use of what we hold. How will you steward what’s been placed in your hands?
-
Richard Younge, a Calvinistic, English tract writer, argues that wealth is not absolute ownership but stewardship. The Master entrusts goods so the whole household may be cared for. Lavish self-spending, while others lack necessities, misuses that trust. This is not a call for coercion, but for conscience: wise, just, charitable use of what we hold. How will you steward what’s been placed in your hands?
-
Richard Younge, a Calvinistic, English tract writer, argues that wealth is not absolute ownership but stewardship. The Master entrusts goods so the whole household may be cared for. Lavish self-spending, while others lack necessities, misuses that trust. This is not a call for coercion, but for conscience: wise, just, charitable use of what we hold. How will you steward what’s been placed in your hands?