#goodheart — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #goodheart, aggregated by home.social.
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Bible study: Love thy neighbor, but who are they?
https://youtu.be/cU16gYa1UH0?si=Cuj5vMEAeDnm0Taj This is such a powerful story because it reminds us that serving others is both an honor and a blessing. Doing the Lord’s work through love and compassion helps spread God’s love to everyone, even to those who may be different from us. There is nothing wrong with helping your own tribe or community, but what happens when the person in need comes from somewhere else? Would you still help them? Would you hesitate or question whether they […]https://onemomentoflove7.wordpress.com/2026/05/17/bible-study-love-thy-neighbor-but-who-are-they/
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James Russel Miller, Pennsylvanian Presybterian pastor and publisher, on 2 Co 8. He says a grasping, covetous, miserly Christian is a misnomer, not the kind of follower that Christ is looking for. In the same passage he quotes a priest who says he never had anyone come to confession admitting to covetousness.
Would anyone have any admonition about covetousness today?
How can you help those in famine?
#christian #followingjesus #dobetterbebetter #goodheart #gospelliving
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William Apess, Methodist missionary, part Pequot, relates his message to Indians. He says not to work own crops is evil, but blames rum-sellers. Encourages organizing against white peddlers.
The olden liquor campaigns were more about social justice than spiritual poison. You CAN call for moral purity and justice in the same sentence. Christian missionary journals are a source of incisive records of injustice vs. indigenous.
#christian #goodheart #reformation #endpovertynow #dailydevotional