#godspeaks — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #godspeaks, aggregated by home.social.
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Samuel Shaw was an English nonconformist minister. He says to make a trade out of interest/usury, to get one’s living out of the sweat of other’s brows, is condemned as wicked and idle. Even the very patrons of usury (responsible banking & commerce?) would oppose such a life.
Are we all engaged in something that was condemned in the medieval church and a few passages of Scripture?
How can we avoid getting a living out of the sweat of other’s brows?
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Thomas Gisborne, Anglican priest, comments on manufacturing, in an age when quicksilver was coming into industrial use. A practice that injures human health or morals cannot be continue continued with a safe conscience.
He’s not calling for a return to preindustrial, caveman-like technologies. He’s not calling for massive regulation. He is addressing a spritiual matter: the conscience.
How can you protect the health and morals of persons?
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Richard Baxter, Puritan, equates love, and zeal for the Lord’s work, with deeds that save others from physical death. Do it now, else you or your friend may soon pass away. There will be cases where an act of mercy can be done today, but cannot be done tomorrow.
When most Christian presentations invoke a sense of urgency, how often is it for doing good deeds?
How can you do something expeditiously today?
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Hamilton Ott, #Lutheran Kansas pastor. One grad told to write an essay that slavery is ordained of God. When won’t advices to “leave or hang”.
Do we seek out pastors online who will “ordain” our nasty political opinions? Does a “leave or hang” history explain the geographic clustering of political thought today, like in the electoral college map?
How can you do something that helps someone caught up in a bad situation?
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William Tyndall, English martyr, writes on Luke 16. Another Christian in need “has good right in thy goods as hath Christ himself.”
Fine enough when it’s a brother at the prayer breakfast, but what if the refugees coming over the hill are Christian? THEN, is Christ still heir and Lord over all? Still have a relevant, binding, tradition of “2000 years of teaching” in Christianity?
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