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A Different Way to “Never Forget”
It’s hard to forget where I was the day it happened. I was walking with my family around the fun center at the Bavarian Inn in Frankenmuth, MI, when I saw the horrific news that chaos had rained down from the sky and taken so many innocent lives. People were weeping outside the wreckage as others dug through the rubble looking for bodies. My gut was wrenched. I couldn’t believe the scene I was looking at.
May we NEVER FORGET how a United States missile killed more than 100 schoolchildren on February 28th, 2026, at a small Iranian school on the first day of war with Iran.
Though many have already forgotten. And I assume some still don’t even know it happened. It’s clear that Iran hasn’t forgotten, as the school was recently turned into a memorial, with pictures displayed of all the innocent lives that were taken.
“Never forget” is 9/11’s catchphrase, and it has generally bothered me over the years. I think I understand what we mean to communicate with it: “Never forget the thousands of lives lost that day and how America came together to grieve and heal in that moment.”
But given America’s character and response, that’s never been the vibe I’ve gotten from the catchphrase. Instead, I hear it through the lens of violence, blood, and anger. I see it through our immediate militaristic response of a “War on Terror.” “Never forget” has always struck me as a mindset that allows us to villainize and attack others when we perceive them as a threat.
But despite our commitment to never forget, I think we already have. If we remembered, then we would weep every time the United States crumbles another building to the ground. The rubble, the bodies, the weeping, the flashing lights, and the sirens would be giving us flashbacks of 9/11.
But instead of grieving the 100+ bodies of schoolchildren, we argue about whose fault it was, as we try to justify the horrors as an unfortunate part of war. Our anger blinds us to hearing the message in the innocent blood crying out from the ground of Iran in unison with the innocent blood of the 9/11 victims crying out from the ground of America. More violence does not heal their agony. It only stirs up the cry of more innocent blood.
If we’re truly never going to forget, then may we never forget in a way that heals the world. May our crumbled building teach us not to crumble buildings. May our lost loved ones teach us not to take the lives of others. May the violence done to us teach us to see a different way forward than more violence.
May we never forget so that we never reenact our worst days on others.
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Biblical morality provides timeless principles guiding behavior, emphasizing love, justice, and integrity as foundations for a meaningful life.
#BiblicalMorality #ChristianEthics #Faith #MoralValues #Scripture
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Biblical morality provides timeless principles guiding behavior, emphasizing love, justice, and integrity as foundations for a meaningful life.
#BiblicalMorality #ChristianEthics #Faith #MoralValues #Scripture
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Biblical morality provides timeless principles guiding behavior, emphasizing love, justice, and integrity as foundations for a meaningful life.
#BiblicalMorality #ChristianEthics #Faith #MoralValues #Scripture
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Biblical morality provides timeless principles guiding behavior, emphasizing love, justice, and integrity as foundations for a meaningful life.
#BiblicalMorality #ChristianEthics #Faith #MoralValues #Scripture
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Biblical morality provides timeless principles guiding behavior, emphasizing love, justice, and integrity as foundations for a meaningful life.
#BiblicalMorality #ChristianEthics #Faith #MoralValues #Scripture
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Discipline Without Drama
By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News
Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — September 3, 2026
Much of modern financial advice is built around urgency. People are told to act now, optimize constantly, and treat every decision as decisive. This framing creates pressure rather than clarity. Discipline offers an alternative approach—one that relies on steadiness instead of intensity.
Discipline does not require constant attention or emotional investment. It functions best when it is ordinary. Financial discipline, in particular, succeeds when it is embedded into routine rather than elevated into identity. Small, repeated actions matter more than motivation, insight, or enthusiasm.
From a Christian moral perspective, discipline is closely connected to order. Order does not eliminate freedom; it supports it. By placing limits around behavior, discipline reduces chaos and preserves energy for decisions that truly matter. Applied to saving, discipline removes the need for frequent reassessment and negotiation.
Regular saving practiced without drama becomes self-reinforcing. Once established, the habit operates quietly in the background. It does not depend on market conditions or emotional readiness. Its strength lies in predictability. Over time, this predictability reduces stress and increases confidence.
Discipline without drama also resists comparison. Modern financial culture often encourages people to measure progress publicly and competitively. Quiet discipline ignores these signals. It focuses on function rather than appearance and stability rather than recognition.
This approach does not promise rapid transformation. It promises reliability. Reliability, over time, creates room to adapt when circumstances change. It allows individuals to respond thoughtfully instead of reactively and to maintain control even in uncertain conditions.
In an environment saturated with urgency and noise, disciplined financial habits practiced calmly offer a form of resistance. They demonstrate that stability does not require spectacle. It requires only consistency, restraint, and the willingness to act faithfully without attention.
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https://www.europesays.com/people/205796/ The Economy, Stupid? It’s Greek to Me. #AmericanBillionaires #ArtificialIntelligence #ChristianEthics #ConsumerSociety #CorporateGreed #Derivatives #EconomicInequality #Education #financialization #LoveOfMoney #PeterThiel #Philargyria #PredictionMarkets #SiliconValley #SpeculativeMarkets #StPaulApostle #StudentDebt #USMonopolies #USPoliticalPower
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Biblical morality anchors our compass in a shifting world: it defines right and wrong by God’s character, not trend. It invites mercy and justice, truth and grace, courage to stand, and humility to learn. A timeless standard guiding everyday decisions.
#BiblicalMorality #ChristianEthics #ScriptureBasedLiving #GraceAndTruth #MoralClarity
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Biblical morality anchors our compass in a shifting world: it defines right and wrong by God’s character, not trend. It invites mercy and justice, truth and grace, courage to stand, and humility to learn. A timeless standard guiding everyday decisions.
#BiblicalMorality #ChristianEthics #ScriptureBasedLiving #GraceAndTruth #MoralClarity
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Biblical morality anchors our compass in a shifting world: it defines right and wrong by God’s character, not trend. It invites mercy and justice, truth and grace, courage to stand, and humility to learn. A timeless standard guiding everyday decisions.
#BiblicalMorality #ChristianEthics #ScriptureBasedLiving #GraceAndTruth #MoralClarity
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Biblical morality anchors our compass in a shifting world: it defines right and wrong by God’s character, not trend. It invites mercy and justice, truth and grace, courage to stand, and humility to learn. A timeless standard guiding everyday decisions.
#BiblicalMorality #ChristianEthics #ScriptureBasedLiving #GraceAndTruth #MoralClarity
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Biblical morality anchors our compass in a shifting world: it defines right and wrong by God’s character, not trend. It invites mercy and justice, truth and grace, courage to stand, and humility to learn. A timeless standard guiding everyday decisions.
#BiblicalMorality #ChristianEthics #ScriptureBasedLiving #GraceAndTruth #MoralClarity
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Why Do You Boast, Great Warrior?
A Peace Reflection on Psalm 52
“Why do you boast about your crimes, great warrior?
Don’t you realize God’s justice continues forever?”
—Psalm 52:1There is something startlingly contemporary about that question.
Why do you boast, great warrior?
The psalm does not merely condemn violence. It confronts the strange human tendency to celebrate it.
We make monuments to conquerors.
We name weapons after predators.
We decorate generals.
We create highlight reels of explosions.
We speak of “dominance,” “strength,” “shock and awe,” “victory,” and “crushing the enemy.”And sometimes the destruction itself becomes evidence of greatness.
Look what we can do.
Look how powerful we are.
Look how afraid others are of us.
Psalm 52 interrupts that boasting with an uncomfortable question:
Why?
Why boast about something that destroys what God loves?
Why brag about the ability to kill?
Why measure greatness by the number of enemies defeated rather than the number of enemies reconciled?
Why are nations proud of weapons capable of destroying cities but embarrassed by diplomacy, compromise, mercy, and restraint?
The psalm was written in a world in which rulers demonstrated their greatness through military power. Kings conquered territory, displayed captives, erected monuments, and told stories about their victories.
In many ways, we have not changed very much.
Our monuments are sometimes digital now.
Missile footage.
Drone-camera images.
Maps showing territory captured.
Military parades.
Defense budgets.
Weapons demonstrations.
Politicians promising to be “tough.”
Commentators speaking casually about bombing places most of us will never visit and people we will never meet.
War becomes abstract.
The enemy becomes a category.
And human beings disappear behind words like targets, assets, combatants, collateral damage, and acceptable losses.
Psalm 52 insists that God sees through all of that language.
Behind every map is somebody’s home.
Behind every casualty figure is a name.
Behind every destroyed building was a room where someone ate breakfast, tucked a child into bed, argued with a spouse, celebrated a birthday, prayed, laughed, worried, and dreamed.
This is one of the essential tasks of peacemaking:
to restore the human face to those whom violence has reduced to categories.
Psalm 52 contrasts two different understandings of power.
One is the power of the “great warrior”—the power to threaten, manipulate, deceive, dominate, and destroy.
The other is far quieter:
the steadfast love of God.
The psalmist eventually says:
“But I am like an olive tree, thriving in the house of God.
I will always trust in God’s unfailing love.”What an extraordinary alternative image.
Not a sword.
Not a fortress.
Not a chariot.
Not an army.
A tree.
A living thing.
Rooted.
Growing.
Providing shade.
Bearing fruit.
An olive tree, of all things—the source of the olive branch that would eventually become one of humanity’s great symbols of peace.
Perhaps there are two ways to imagine greatness.
One asks:
How much power can I accumulate?
The other asks:
How much life can I nurture?
One asks:
How many enemies can I defeat?
The other asks:
How many enemies can become neighbors?
One builds walls.
The other builds tables.
One produces fear.
The other produces trust.
One leaves ruins.
The other plants trees.
And Psalm 52 makes another important claim:
Violence does not get the final word.
“God’s justice continues forever.”
Empires rarely believe this.
Every empire imagines itself permanent.
Every dictator thinks the palace will remain standing.
Every warlord believes fear will preserve power.
Every weapons system promises security.
But history is littered with the ruins of people who once believed they were invincible.
The psalm reminds us that brute force is spectacular but temporary.
Love is quieter and much more stubborn.
A bomb can destroy a house in seconds.
It takes years to build a community.
A bullet can end a life instantly.
It can take generations to heal the hatred that produced it.
Violence is fast.
Peace is patient.
Which may be one reason humanity so often chooses violence.
Violence gives the illusion of immediate results.
Peace requires imagination.
Negotiation.
Listening.
Justice.
Reconciliation.
Repentance.
Forgiveness.
Courage.
And time.
Yet Jesus places himself squarely within this alternative understanding of power.
Blessed are the peacemakers.
Love your enemies.
Pray for those who persecute you.
Put away your sword.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
The first shall be last.
The greatest shall be servant of all.
Again and again, Jesus overturns our normal measurements of strength.
The cross itself becomes Christianity’s ultimate critique of domination.
Rome believed the cross demonstrated imperial power.
Jesus transformed it into a revelation of self-giving love.
The empire said:
This is what we can do to you.
God answered:
And still I will love you.
That is a very different kind of power.
For those of us committed to peace, Psalm 52 therefore asks more than whether we personally commit acts of violence.
It asks what we admire.
What do we cheer?
What language do we tolerate?
What stories do we tell our children?
Who receives our monuments?
Whose courage do we celebrate?
Do we know the names of our generals better than the names of our peacemakers?
Perhaps part of building a culture of peace is learning to boast about different things.
Boast about the person who stopped a fight.
Boast about the diplomat who kept talking when everyone else wanted to walk away.
Boast about the conscientious objector who refused to kill.
Boast about the victim who chose restorative justice over revenge.
Boast about the community that welcomed refugees.
Boast about the activists who stood between opposing groups.
Boast about the teacher who taught children how to resolve conflict.
Boast about the soldier who refused an unlawful order.
Boast about the neighbor who crossed a political, racial, religious, or cultural boundary and made a friend.
Boast about the people planting olive trees in places where others would plant land mines.
Maybe that is one way we begin dismantling the myth of redemptive violence.
We change what we call heroic.
Psalm 52 asks:
“Why do you boast about your crimes, great warrior?”
Perhaps followers of Jesus should answer with another question:
What if greatness is not measured by our ability to destroy an enemy, but by our courage to make peace with one?
The warrior may have the louder story.
The missile may make the larger explosion.
The empire may dominate the headlines.
But somewhere beneath all that noise, God continues planting olive trees.
And God’s justice continues forever.
May we be found among those planting them.
#Anabaptism #biblicalReflection #BlessedAreThePeacemakers #ChristianEthics #ChristianPeacemaking #CultureOfPeace #Devotional #enemyLove #God #GodSJustice #gospelOfPeace #JesusAndPeace #Justice #LoveYourEnemies #mennonite #militarism #mythOfRedemptiveViolence #Nonviolence #OliveBranch #peace #peaceChurch #peaceTheology #PeaceGrooves #Peacemaking #Psalm52 #Psalms #Reconciliation #RestorativeJustice #scriptureReflection #SteadfastLove #Violence #WarAndPeace -
Biblical morality is a living framework for daily choices, not a dry rulebook. It ties truth to love, justice to mercy, and invites us to test our actions against Christ’s example. How do you balance grace and truth when decisions are hard?
#BiblicalMorality #ChristianEthics #MoralReasoning #ScriptureGuidance #BiblicalTruth
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Biblical morality is a living framework for daily choices, not a dry rulebook. It ties truth to love, justice to mercy, and invites us to test our actions against Christ’s example. How do you balance grace and truth when decisions are hard?
#BiblicalMorality #ChristianEthics #MoralReasoning #ScriptureGuidance #BiblicalTruth
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Biblical morality is a living framework for daily choices, not a dry rulebook. It ties truth to love, justice to mercy, and invites us to test our actions against Christ’s example. How do you balance grace and truth when decisions are hard?
#BiblicalMorality #ChristianEthics #MoralReasoning #ScriptureGuidance #BiblicalTruth
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Biblical morality is a living framework for daily choices, not a dry rulebook. It ties truth to love, justice to mercy, and invites us to test our actions against Christ’s example. How do you balance grace and truth when decisions are hard?
#BiblicalMorality #ChristianEthics #MoralReasoning #ScriptureGuidance #BiblicalTruth
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Biblical morality is a living framework for daily choices, not a dry rulebook. It ties truth to love, justice to mercy, and invites us to test our actions against Christ’s example. How do you balance grace and truth when decisions are hard?
#BiblicalMorality #ChristianEthics #MoralReasoning #ScriptureGuidance #BiblicalTruth
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#Paleoconservatism is a strain of #conservatism in the United States that stresses #AmericanNationalism, #ChristianEthics, #TraditionalistConservatism, #localism and #NonInterventionism.
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#Paleoconservatism is a strain of #conservatism in the United States that stresses #AmericanNationalism, #ChristianEthics, #TraditionalistConservatism, #localism and #NonInterventionism.
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#Paleoconservatism is a strain of #conservatism in the United States that stresses #AmericanNationalism, #ChristianEthics, #TraditionalistConservatism, #localism and #NonInterventionism.
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Biblical ethics calls believers to balance truth, love, and justice in daily life. How do you live out honesty and neighbor love when culture pulls you apart?
#BiblicalEthics #ChristianEthics #ScriptureEthics #BiblicalMorality #EthicalTeachingsBible
https://www.chrissbiblenewsletter.org/p/understanding-where-believers-go-2ee
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Biblical ethics calls believers to balance truth, love, and justice in daily life. How do you live out honesty and neighbor love when culture pulls you apart?
#BiblicalEthics #ChristianEthics #ScriptureEthics #BiblicalMorality #EthicalTeachingsBible
https://www.chrissbiblenewsletter.org/p/understanding-where-believers-go-2ee
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Biblical ethics calls believers to balance truth, love, and justice in daily life. How do you live out honesty and neighbor love when culture pulls you apart?
#BiblicalEthics #ChristianEthics #ScriptureEthics #BiblicalMorality #EthicalTeachingsBible
https://www.chrissbiblenewsletter.org/p/understanding-where-believers-go-2ee
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Biblical ethics calls believers to balance truth, love, and justice in daily life. How do you live out honesty and neighbor love when culture pulls you apart?
#BiblicalEthics #ChristianEthics #ScriptureEthics #BiblicalMorality #EthicalTeachingsBible
https://www.chrissbiblenewsletter.org/p/understanding-where-believers-go-2ee
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Biblical ethics calls believers to balance truth, love, and justice in daily life. How do you live out honesty and neighbor love when culture pulls you apart?
#BiblicalEthics #ChristianEthics #ScriptureEthics #BiblicalMorality #EthicalTeachingsBible
https://www.chrissbiblenewsletter.org/p/understanding-where-believers-go-2ee
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Biblical morality invites us to love our neighbor and seek justice with humility.
It challenges daily choices to reflect truth, mercy, and steadfast integrity.
#BiblicalMorality #ChristianEthics #MoralIntegrityhttps://www.chrissbiblenewsletter.org/p/did-you-know-that-satan-does-not
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Biblical morality invites us to love our neighbor and seek justice with humility.
It challenges daily choices to reflect truth, mercy, and steadfast integrity.
#BiblicalMorality #ChristianEthics #MoralIntegrityhttps://www.chrissbiblenewsletter.org/p/did-you-know-that-satan-does-not
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Biblical morality invites us to love our neighbor and seek justice with humility.
It challenges daily choices to reflect truth, mercy, and steadfast integrity.
#BiblicalMorality #ChristianEthics #MoralIntegrityhttps://www.chrissbiblenewsletter.org/p/did-you-know-that-satan-does-not
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Biblical morality invites us to love our neighbor and seek justice with humility.
It challenges daily choices to reflect truth, mercy, and steadfast integrity.
#BiblicalMorality #ChristianEthics #MoralIntegrityhttps://www.chrissbiblenewsletter.org/p/did-you-know-that-satan-does-not
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Biblical morality invites us to love our neighbor and seek justice with humility.
It challenges daily choices to reflect truth, mercy, and steadfast integrity.
#BiblicalMorality #ChristianEthics #MoralIntegrityhttps://www.chrissbiblenewsletter.org/p/did-you-know-that-satan-does-not
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Biblical ethics invites us to love God and our neighbors in daily choices.
It guides honesty, mercy, and justice in how we treat others.
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Biblical ethics invites us to love God and our neighbors in daily choices.
It guides honesty, mercy, and justice in how we treat others.
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Biblical ethics invites us to love God and our neighbors in daily choices.
It guides honesty, mercy, and justice in how we treat others.
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Biblical ethics invites us to love God and our neighbors in daily choices.
It guides honesty, mercy, and justice in how we treat others.
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Biblical ethics invites us to love God and our neighbors in daily choices.
It guides honesty, mercy, and justice in how we treat others.
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Circle One Fellowship Exeter (COFE) @exeter4christian2church4devon.wordpress.com@exeter4christian2church4devon.wordpress.com ·The Problem of False Preacher Teacher Clerical Ministering Within Modern Day Churches
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The Problem of False Preacher Teacher Clerical Ministering Within Modern Day Churches
The table of the Lord is Holy.
The food we receive must come from the Priest-King Himself—pure, undefiled, and flowing from the Holiest of All.
Yet in our time, that table has been defiled.
The church has become a place where food offered to idols is served. These idols are not of wood and stone but of political causes, cultural trends, social programmes, and false moral appearances. They are the idols of the age, and they have been brought into the sanctuary.
The Social Gospel, with all its political causes and cultural trends, is such an idol.
It sounds compassionate to the natural ear, but it sacrifices the true Gospel on the altar of this world. It offers earthly reform where the Priest-King Jesus Christ offers heavenly reconciliation.
It speaks of systems and power where He speaks of the cross and the throne of grace. It rearranges deck chairs on a sinking ship. It offers programs where it should offer presence. It offers politics where it should offer peace. It offers activism where it should offer adoration.
This is not the Gospel. It is a counterfeit—a substitute that speaks of earthly kingdoms while ignoring the heavenly. It is food wrapped in pretty paper, but inside is rotting meat. It is a deception, a snare, and a trap.
Congregations that consume this food are not being heart-fed; they are being mind-fed. Their souls are starved while their minds are filled with the philosophies of men. Those who serve this food as if it were the Gospel are not acting as faithful shepherds of the flock; they are leading souls away from the true pasture.
We make it very clear, we do not seek merely to promote our own theology within COFE-CYEM by pointing the finger at (any) other theologies, denominations or faiths. COFE-CYEM itself makes many claims around our theology, our belief system and our faith.
We do not expect or ask everybody to just blindly believe our way of seeing and believing. All we seek is to call attention to the issue of the church and faith itself being used as a Trojan Horse for (worldly) purposes in order to further the interests of man and not God Himself.
We implore our followers respectfully – if you ever feel, suspect or see anything whatsoever within our own theology or posts here on COFE-CYEM that you believe is pushing (worldly) purposes or schemes, then please call us out and expose us.
We are no different or more righteous than any other brother or sister in Christ. But if we were to be found (using) the true Gospel as a Trojan Horse to push a false Gospel for our own purposes – then we are truly lost indeed.
The Nature of the Deception
The danger arises whenever social action, political programmes, or cultural causes become substitutes for the proclamation of Christ crucified and risen, rather than fruits flowing from communion with Him.
The New Testament consistently presents love for neighbour and care for the poor as genuine expressions of faith, not as alternatives to it.
The error is not in caring for the needy or seeking justice. The error is in presenting such activities as the Gospel itself, or as a sufficient substitute for repentance, faith in Christ, and the new birth.
Those who preach this substitute gospel speak of power where the Priest-King spoke of weakness. They speak of victory where He spoke of the cross. They speak of this world as if it were the only world. They have departed from the faith and given themselves over to the spirit of the age.
They have exchanged the Gospel of the finished work for a gospel of social reform. They have exchanged the cross for a political platform. They have exchanged the throne of grace for a seat of power. They have exchanged the rest that remains for the restless striving of the world. They have exchanged the Holiest of All for the outer courts of carnal religion.
This is not a judgment on persons but a discernment of teaching. We do not know the hearts of those who preach these things, and we leave their final judgment to God.
We are called to test the spirits and to distinguish between the pure food of the Gospel and the poisoned food that has been offered to idols. The warning is not against individuals but against the teaching itself, which, however attractively packaged, leads away from Christ.
The Rot Beneath the Wrapping
False teaching often comes wrapped in the language of the Bible, the imagery of the cross, and the emotions of the congregation. It speaks of love, justice, and compassion, but it hollows out their meaning. It is like the fig tree that had leaves but no fruit—a show of life without the reality of life.
Congregations that consume this food are being fed a diet of politics, activism, and social reform, but they are not being fed the pure Word of God.
They are being told to fight for earthly causes, but they are not being told to enter the Holiest of All. They are being told to change the world, but they are not being told to rest in the finished work of the Priest-King.
They are being told to be activists, but they are not being told to be worshippers. They are being told to build the kingdom of God on earth, but they are not being told that the Kingdom of God is within them.
The food that is being served is a gospel of the flesh, a gospel of the world, a gospel of the age. It has no power to save, no power to transform, and no power to bring the soul into the presence of God.
It leads to exhaustion, burnout, and disillusionment. It leads away from the Priest-King, not toward Him. It leads to the outer court, not the Holiest of All. The invitation to serve God in the world becomes a substitute for the invitation to abide in Christ.
The True Gospel and the Mind of Christ
The real Gospel is not a gospel of prosperity, politics, or social reform disguised as salvation. It is not a gospel of emotional experience without transformation.
The real Gospel is this: Jesus Christ, the Priest-King has entered the Holiest of All through His own blood.
The veil is torn.
The way is open.
Every soul who draws near through Him receives mercy, finds grace, and enters the rest that remains.
He ever lives to make intercession.
He brings God to us and us to God. In Him, we are accepted. In Him, we are kept. In Him, the endless life of God flows freely to all who will come. That is the Gospel. Not a portion of it. Not a version of it. It.
The mind of Christ is not the mind of carnal man, which seeks power, recognition, and earthly comfort. The mind of Christ empties itself, takes the form of a servant, becomes obedient unto death, and is exalted by the Father. The mind of Christ builds the church on the rock of revelation, and the gates of hell do not prevail against it.
The mind of Christ measures faithfulness by abiding in the Father’s presence. Those who preach the substitute gospel do not have the mind of Christ. They have the mind of the flesh, the mind of the world, the mind of the age.
They have not entered the Holiest of All. They have not passed through the veil. They have not been cleansed by the blood. They have not received the endless life. They remain in the outer courts, serving the idols of the age.
The Call of This Hour: Wake Up and Return
The call of this hour is clear. The pews empty because souls are hungry for reality—not programs, not politics, not noise, but the living presence of God in truth. Congregations must wake up. They must open their eyes to the deception of false teaching.
They must stop eating the food that has been sacrificed to idols. They must return to the table of the Lord, where pure food is served—the finished work of the Priest-King, the open way into the Holiest of All, the rest that remains, and the endless life that flows from His intercession.
The table of the Lord has been turned into a place where food offered to idols is served. The Gospel of the finished work has been exchanged for a gospel of social reform. The cross has been exchanged for a political platform. The throne of grace has been exchanged for a seat of power.
The rest that remains has been exchanged for the restless striving of the world. The Holiest of All has been exchanged for the outer courts of carnal religion. The church has been used as a Trojan Horse for political purposes, hiding its true agenda behind the language of compassion, justice, and love.
The congregations that continue to consume this food are being poisoned. They are being led astray. They are being robbed of their inheritance. They are being kept from the Holiest of All, from the rest that remains, from the endless life, from the Priest-King.
The time has come for them to wake up. The time has come for them to return. The time has come for them to stop eating the rotting meat and to come to the table of the Lord, where pure food is served.
The true church of the real Gospel is often small, overlooked, and ridiculed. But it knows the voice of the Shepherd. It does not follow the stranger. It abides in the Word. It dwells in the Holiest. The true church does not eat food sacrificed to idols. It does not bow to the false gods of the age.
It does not compromise the table of the Lord. It preaches the real Gospel—Christ and Him crucified. It preaches the finished work. It preaches the endless life. It preaches the open way into the Holiest of All. It calls every soul to draw near. It calls every church to open the doors. It calls every believer to cease from striving and rest in the finished work of the Priest-King.
The Contrast: The Olive Tree and the Wicked
Psalm 52 powerfully contrasts the man who trusts in his own strength and deceit with the one who trusts in God’s unfailing love and flourishes in His house. The Psalm speaks of the wicked man who boasts of evil, whose tongue plots destruction, who loves evil rather than good, and who trusts in his great wealth and grows strong by destroying others.
This is the image of the one who trusts in his own strength, his own position, his own power. The Psalm declares that God will bring him down to everlasting ruin, snatch him up, tear him from his tent, and uproot him from the land of the living.
But the righteous is like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God, trusting in God’s unfailing love forever and ever. The righteous praises God forever and hopes in His name.
This is the image of the true believer—the one who trusts in the finished work of the Priest-King, who abides in the Holiest of All, who is sustained by the unfailing love of God through Jesus Christ who ever lives to make intercession.
The true believer does not boast in evil or trust in human schemes, false popular moral sounding social constructs or political power. The true believer trusts in the finished work of the Priest-King Yeshua Emet Melchizedek Salem—Christ Jesus—and abides in Him who has opened the way.
The Final Exhortation
The modern church stands at a critical hour. Many have turned the table of the Lord into a place where food offered to idols is served. The Social Gospel, with its political causes, cultural trends, and false moral appearances, has become the dominant offering.
It sounds compassionate to the natural ear, but it sacrifices the true Gospel on the altar of this world. It offers earthly reform where the Priest-King offers heavenly reconciliation. It speaks of systems and power where He speaks of the cross and the throne of grace.
We must not eat of any spiritual food that has been offered in sacrifice to an idol. The table of the Lord is holy. The food we receive must come from the Priest-King Himself—pure, undefiled, and flowing from the Holiest of All.
Those who preach the substitute gospel have turned the church into a platform for their political agendas. They have exchanged the Gospel of the finished work for a gospel of social reform. They have exchanged the cross for a political platform. They have exchanged the throne of grace for a seat of power.
They have exchanged the rest that remains for the restless striving of the world. They have exchanged the Holiest of All for the outer courts of carnal religion. They are not shepherds of the flock; they are servants of the spirit of the age, offering food that cannot satisfy the soul.
The true church of the real Gospel is often small, overlooked, and ridiculed. But it knows the voice of the Shepherd. It does not follow the stranger. It abides in the Word. It dwells in the Holiest. The true church does not eat food sacrificed to idols. It does not bow to the false gods of the age.
It does not compromise the table of the Lord. It preaches the real Gospel—Christ and Him crucified. It preaches the finished work.
It preaches the endless life. It preaches the open way into the Holiest of All. It calls every soul to draw near. It calls every church to open the doors. It calls every believer to cease from striving and rest in the finished work of the Priest-King.
The Fourth Truth stands. The dialogue continues. The fruit remains.
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It’s in the Blood
In 1539, a fugitive former-priest-turned-Anabaptist, in his seminal work “The Foundation,” penned the following words:
“Christ is our fortress; patience our weapon of defense; the Word of God our sword. …Iron and metal spears and swords we leave to those who, alas, regard human blood and swine’s blood of well-nigh equal value.”
So said Menno Simons, principal leader of the Protestant sect which then became known as the Mennonites.
More than 500 years later, his words still resound with a mighty truth.
At the risk of sounding morbid, it has to do with blood.
While Menno specifically refers to the difference between human blood and that of an animal, his larger point is the “value” we place on the blood of another.
My point is quite simple.
Killing will not end through education, conflict resolution, or disarmament, though all of these are important and can help. Killing will end only when there is a fundamental shift in the mind and heart of those who kill.
For how can you kill someone if you believe that their blood is just as valuable as your own?
Let’s call it – for lack of a better term – bloodism.
The other – their humanity, life, blood – is somehow less than I, and therefore, their humanity, life, blood, is not as valuable as my own. It becomes quite easy then to justify killing the other, ie. spilling his/her blood.
The directors of death throughout history from every nation, tribe and religion have understood and disseminated this concept quite well. A person (and those like him/her) is described as having the wrong beliefs, the wrong skin color, the wrong gender, the wrong age, the wrong station in life, the wrong land, the wrong possessions, the wrong clothing, the wrong language —- the wrong blood. These others are not as valued as you are, the leaders of the macabre scream, though they couch their speech in terms such as vigilance, freedom, history, security, and truth.
Then the killing begins.
The Nazis did it to the Jews. Israelis do it to the Palestinians. Hutus did it to the Tutsis. Shiite do it to the Sunni. Palestinians do it to the Israelis. Sunni do it to the Shiite. Muslims do it to the Christians. Christians do it to the Muslims. This country does it to that country. That neighborhood does it to this neighborhood. This race does it to that race. That religion does it to this religion.
And any one of a million other combinations.
STOP!
Do not allow your mind and heart to be filled with bloodism.
We are made in the image of God.
ALL of us.
And that divine DNA resides in the very marrow of our bones and flows through our veins.
It’s in the blood.
July 28, 2014
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It’s in the Blood
In 1539, a fugitive former-priest-turned-Anabaptist, in his seminal work “The Foundation,” penned the following words:
“Christ is our fortress; patience our weapon of defense; the Word of God our sword. …Iron and metal spears and swords we leave to those who, alas, regard human blood and swine’s blood of well-nigh equal value.”
So said Menno Simons, principal leader of the Protestant sect which then became known as the Mennonites.
More than 500 years later, his words still resound with a mighty truth.
At the risk of sounding morbid, it has to do with blood.
While Menno specifically refers to the difference between human blood and that of an animal, his larger point is the “value” we place on the blood of another.
My point is quite simple.
Killing will not end through education, conflict resolution, or disarmament, though all of these are important and can help. Killing will end only when there is a fundamental shift in the mind and heart of those who kill.
For how can you kill someone if you believe that their blood is just as valuable as your own?
Let’s call it – for lack of a better term – bloodism.
The other – their humanity, life, blood – is somehow less than I, and therefore, their humanity, life, blood, is not as valuable as my own. It becomes quite easy then to justify killing the other, ie. spilling his/her blood.
The directors of death throughout history from every nation, tribe and religion have understood and disseminated this concept quite well. A person (and those like him/her) is described as having the wrong beliefs, the wrong skin color, the wrong gender, the wrong age, the wrong station in life, the wrong land, the wrong possessions, the wrong clothing, the wrong language —- the wrong blood. These others are not as valued as you are, the leaders of the macabre scream, though they couch their speech in terms such as vigilance, freedom, history, security, and truth.
Then the killing begins.
The Nazis did it to the Jews. Israelis do it to the Palestinians. Hutus did it to the Tutsis. Shiite do it to the Sunni. Palestinians do it to the Israelis. Sunni do it to the Shiite. Muslims do it to the Christians. Christians do it to the Muslims. This country does it to that country. That neighborhood does it to this neighborhood. This race does it to that race. That religion does it to this religion.
And any one of a million other combinations.
STOP!
Do not allow your mind and heart to be filled with bloodism.
We are made in the image of God.
ALL of us.
And that divine DNA resides in the very marrow of our bones and flows through our veins.
It’s in the blood.
July 28, 2014
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It’s in the Blood
In 1539, a fugitive former-priest-turned-Anabaptist, in his seminal work “The Foundation,” penned the following words:
“Christ is our fortress; patience our weapon of defense; the Word of God our sword. …Iron and metal spears and swords we leave to those who, alas, regard human blood and swine’s blood of well-nigh equal value.”
So said Menno Simons, principal leader of the Protestant sect which then became known as the Mennonites.
More than 500 years later, his words still resound with a mighty truth.
At the risk of sounding morbid, it has to do with blood.
While Menno specifically refers to the difference between human blood and that of an animal, his larger point is the “value” we place on the blood of another.
My point is quite simple.
Killing will not end through education, conflict resolution, or disarmament, though all of these are important and can help. Killing will end only when there is a fundamental shift in the mind and heart of those who kill.
For how can you kill someone if you believe that their blood is just as valuable as your own?
Let’s call it – for lack of a better term – bloodism.
The other – their humanity, life, blood – is somehow less than I, and therefore, their humanity, life, blood, is not as valuable as my own. It becomes quite easy then to justify killing the other, ie. spilling his/her blood.
The directors of death throughout history from every nation, tribe and religion have understood and disseminated this concept quite well. A person (and those like him/her) is described as having the wrong beliefs, the wrong skin color, the wrong gender, the wrong age, the wrong station in life, the wrong land, the wrong possessions, the wrong clothing, the wrong language —- the wrong blood. These others are not as valued as you are, the leaders of the macabre scream, though they couch their speech in terms such as vigilance, freedom, history, security, and truth.
Then the killing begins.
The Nazis did it to the Jews. Israelis do it to the Palestinians. Hutus did it to the Tutsis. Shiite do it to the Sunni. Palestinians do it to the Israelis. Sunni do it to the Shiite. Muslims do it to the Christians. Christians do it to the Muslims. This country does it to that country. That neighborhood does it to this neighborhood. This race does it to that race. That religion does it to this religion.
And any one of a million other combinations.
STOP!
Do not allow your mind and heart to be filled with bloodism.
We are made in the image of God.
ALL of us.
And that divine DNA resides in the very marrow of our bones and flows through our veins.
It’s in the blood.
July 28, 2014
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It’s in the Blood
In 1539, a fugitive former-priest-turned-Anabaptist, in his seminal work “The Foundation,” penned the following words:
“Christ is our fortress; patience our weapon of defense; the Word of God our sword. …Iron and metal spears and swords we leave to those who, alas, regard human blood and swine’s blood of well-nigh equal value.”
So said Menno Simons, principal leader of the Protestant sect which then became known as the Mennonites.
More than 500 years later, his words still resound with a mighty truth.
At the risk of sounding morbid, it has to do with blood.
While Menno specifically refers to the difference between human blood and that of an animal, his larger point is the “value” we place on the blood of another.
My point is quite simple.
Killing will not end through education, conflict resolution, or disarmament, though all of these are important and can help. Killing will end only when there is a fundamental shift in the mind and heart of those who kill.
For how can you kill someone if you believe that their blood is just as valuable as your own?
Let’s call it – for lack of a better term – bloodism.
The other – their humanity, life, blood – is somehow less than I, and therefore, their humanity, life, blood, is not as valuable as my own. It becomes quite easy then to justify killing the other, ie. spilling his/her blood.
The directors of death throughout history from every nation, tribe and religion have understood and disseminated this concept quite well. A person (and those like him/her) is described as having the wrong beliefs, the wrong skin color, the wrong gender, the wrong age, the wrong station in life, the wrong land, the wrong possessions, the wrong clothing, the wrong language —- the wrong blood. These others are not as valued as you are, the leaders of the macabre scream, though they couch their speech in terms such as vigilance, freedom, history, security, and truth.
Then the killing begins.
The Nazis did it to the Jews. Israelis do it to the Palestinians. Hutus did it to the Tutsis. Shiite do it to the Sunni. Palestinians do it to the Israelis. Sunni do it to the Shiite. Muslims do it to the Christians. Christians do it to the Muslims. This country does it to that country. That neighborhood does it to this neighborhood. This race does it to that race. That religion does it to this religion.
And any one of a million other combinations.
STOP!
Do not allow your mind and heart to be filled with bloodism.
We are made in the image of God.
ALL of us.
And that divine DNA resides in the very marrow of our bones and flows through our veins.
It’s in the blood.
July 28, 2014
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Biblical morality guides our actions with love, justice, and humility.
These timeless truths shape how we treat others and seek righteousness.
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Biblical morality guides our actions with love, justice, and humility.
These timeless truths shape how we treat others and seek righteousness.
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Biblical morality guides our actions with love, justice, and humility.
These timeless truths shape how we treat others and seek righteousness.
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Biblical morality guides our actions with love, justice, and humility.
These timeless truths shape how we treat others and seek righteousness.
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Biblical morality guides our actions with love, justice, and humility.
These timeless truths shape how we treat others and seek righteousness.
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Biblical ethics invites us to love justice, mercy, and humility in how we live.
It asks us to treat neighbors with dignity, defend the vulnerable, and seek truth.
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Biblical ethics invites us to love justice, mercy, and humility in how we live.
It asks us to treat neighbors with dignity, defend the vulnerable, and seek truth.
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Biblical ethics invites us to love justice, mercy, and humility in how we live.
It asks us to treat neighbors with dignity, defend the vulnerable, and seek truth.
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Biblical ethics invites us to love justice, mercy, and humility in how we live.
It asks us to treat neighbors with dignity, defend the vulnerable, and seek truth.
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Biblical ethics invites us to love justice, mercy, and humility in how we live.
It asks us to treat neighbors with dignity, defend the vulnerable, and seek truth.
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Biblical ethics calls us to love our neighbor and act with justice.
It challenges pride, promotes mercy, and anchors decisions in God's truth.
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Biblical ethics calls us to love our neighbor and act with justice.
It challenges pride, promotes mercy, and anchors decisions in God's truth.
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Biblical ethics calls us to love our neighbor and act with justice.
It challenges pride, promotes mercy, and anchors decisions in God's truth.
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Biblical ethics calls us to love our neighbor and act with justice.
It challenges pride, promotes mercy, and anchors decisions in God's truth.
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Biblical ethics calls us to love our neighbor and act with justice.
It challenges pride, promotes mercy, and anchors decisions in God's truth.
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If Acts Happened Today, Would We Call It Communism?
For many, "communism" has become less a political philosophy and more a conversation stopper. But is every effort to use our shared resources to care for the poor, the sick, and the vulnerable really communism? This article examines the difference between political labels and biblical principles, comparing the teachings of the early Church with today's political rhetoric. -
If Acts Happened Today, Would We Call It Communism?
For many, "communism" has become less a political philosophy and more a conversation stopper. But is every effort to use our shared resources to care for the poor, the sick, and the vulnerable really communism? This article examines the difference between political labels and biblical principles, comparing the teachings of the early Church with today's political rhetoric.