#presbyterian — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #presbyterian, aggregated by home.social.
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Houston, a Reformed Presbyterian leader in Ireland, was clear: Christians feel bound to the imprisoned and compelled toward all human suffering. Modern Christian thought? We’ve innovatively developed ideological tests to determine which sufferers warrant our concern. Thoroughly inspired moral progress.
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Bersier, a French Reformed minister, posed an awkwardly sensible question: if you possess leisure whilst others labour ceaselessly, shouldn’t that free time go toward alleviating their suffering?
Modern response? Eloquent social media denunciations apparently discharge the duty. Quite inspired theology.
#reformedtheology #christian #biblestudy #lazarus #presbyterian #bookofluke
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M’Crie quotes an Inquisition victim who cried out to God, preferring cannibals to his baptized tormentors. M’Crie—a Reformed historian—neither flinches nor excuses it. The title says it all: the Reformation’s heirs were the primary targets, and they’re the ones who preserved the memory. If you’re Christian, don’t be a fiend. If you’re not, consider who kept this story alive, and why.
#reformed #reformedtheology #presbyterian #christian #inquisition
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Grosvenor isn’t smuggling in works-righteousness — he’s simply noting that Christ, at the Judgment, asks about visiting the sick. That’s Matthew 25; it’s right there. One can debate the precise soteriological plumbing all one likes, but at some point the text does require you to have an answer for what you did with it, not merely what you thought about it.
#christian #presbyterian #christianliving #healthcare #matthew25 #biblestudy
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Edward Leigh, a member of the Westminster Assembly, warns that “pinching pennies” from mercy doesn’t protect your household—it invites trouble. Citing Proverbs 11, he says hoarding multiplies burdens, while generosity lightens them. It’s almost comic: the tighter the grip, the fuller the calendar. How might mercy actually free you?
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Albert Barnes, a Presbyterian with a very sharp moral finger, basically says: if a widow’s kids are suffering, she’ll knock on strangers’ doors—and if you’re a Christian with a house full of cushions and cupboards, that knock is on you. A crumb from your mansion could’ve turned her place into Eden. And really—what other worldview dares accuse the comfortable like that? So… which tiny, barely-noticed bit of your surplus could you give today?