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Happy Easter, Sunday, 12 April, 2026 for all of my Christian friends who belong to Eastern Christianity. ☦️🥚🐇
#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #christianity #christian #christians #easter #easter2026 #happyeaster #happyeaster2026 #easterbunny #eastereggs #westernchristianity #easternchristianity #christendom #eastersunday
Happy Easter, Sunday, 5 April, 2026 for all of my Christian friends who belong to Western Christianity. ✝🥚🐇
#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #christianity #christian #christians #easter #easter2026 #happyeaster #happyeaster2026 #easterbunny #eastereggs #westernchristianity #easternchristianity #christendom #eastersunday
Merry Christmas, 25 December, 2025 for all my friends especially my Christian friends who are celebrating on this date. ✝️🎄🎉
#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #christmas #christmas2025 #merrychristmas #merrychristmas2025 #xmas #xmas2025 #merryxmas #merryxmas2025 #25december #december25 #25thdecember #devember25th #holidays #holiday #happyholiday #happyholidays #holidayseason #christianity #westernchristianity #happy #behappy #joyful #bejoyful
Top ten posts in September 2025
https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/10/01/top-ten-posts-in-september-2025/
#93 #aleisterCrowley #AlejandroJordorowsky #alexandria #alienIdeals #alive #ancientMesopotamia #AndrewChumbley #Anhiliantion #antiquity #AntoineFaivre #arthurVersluis #Aye #babalon #balance #becoming #bestPosts #bestTen #Blondie #brainWorm #BrendanWalls #calendar #CeesLeijenhorst #children #ChrisCarr #ChristianGnosticText #ChristianTheosophicLiterature #ChristopherChungWaiWong #circle #Codex #concept #conquest #cripple #cryptid #cyprianTheMagician #DaniëlVanEgmond #Darkly #deform #demonicDeity #dinosaurs #discourse #DonnerstagAusLicht #EarlyRosicrucianism #EarlyTwentiethCentury #eclipse #education #EighteenthCentury #ElsieGrayParker #Ennead #EsotericConnection #esotericTradition #feast #FivePointedStar #FrancescoPatrizi #FraterYechidah #GaryLachman #glass #gnosis #GnosticEthics #GnosticMyths #Gnosticism #gods #goldenDawn #goldenToad #gospel #GreekEucharist #grimoire #healing #HeartOfDarkness #hermes #HermeticEthics #HermeticLodge #hermeticOrderOfTheGoldenDawn #hermeticPhilosophy #HermeticSpirituality #hermeticTradition #hermeticism #hermetism #hidden #HiroyukiTakeuchi #HistoricalImagination #holyMountain #HRT #IanDrummond #images #influences #Interpreting #JRBobDobbs #JanHelderman #JeanPierreMahé #jesus #JohannesVanOort #JosVanMeurs #JoscelynGodwin #KarenClaireVoss #kundalini #laborDay #LateNineteenthCentury #LesGoldman #liberLegis #liberXxxi #magic #Manichaeism #manuscript #mayDay #MedievalGnostics #MelaniaTrump #meme #Merlin #MettenerArmenbibel #MichaelOLeary #middle #modernTimes #money #moon #music #NagHammadi #NewAgeMovement #Nibbāṇa #nimüe #ninetyThree #occult #Ogdoad #Olla #OnTheEducationOfChildren #one #opposites #panacea #parasiticPerversions #path #Pazuzu #poetry #presence #propaganda #pythagoras #reading #red #rejoice #RenaissanceHermeticism #RepresentativeTexts #return #reverence #right #RockAndRoll #RoelofVanDenBroek #RoelofvanDenBroek #RolandEdighoffer #RomanMassGillesQuispel #romanticism #salvation #SecondForm #sendMoney #September2025 #sevenDeadlySins #SeventeenthCentury #ShawnGray #SigilsOfTheScales #solidarity #soul #Source #sources #spiritualAlchemy #standards #Stockhausen #summary #summaryOfTheMonth #sun #Tenchijin #TheAsclepius #TheBeast #TheBookOfTheLaw #TheBookOfTheSubGenius #TheCathars #theEast #theEyeInTheTriangle #TheGoddessAndTheSerpent #TheRevivalOfMagick #thelema #time #topPosts #topTen #touched #truth #twinPillars #TwoRoads #tylenol #VarjaMath #vase #wallet #westernChristianity #WesternEsotericSchools #WesternEsotericTraditions #westernEsotericism #WilfriedSätty #WilliamBlake #WishFulfilling #wormhole #WouterJHanegraaff #wrong #天地人
If you ask many Protestant Christians how many books are in the Bible, they will likely tell you that there are 66 books in the Bible – 39 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament. However, if you ask other believers in different traditions of the Christian faith, you will likely hear a vastly different number concerning the total number of books. If you ask Catholic believers, they will tell you there are 73 books in total; Greek Orthodox believers will tell you that there are more than 75 books; and Ethiopian believers will tell you there are more than 80. So, why the discrepancy?
#Apocrypha #ApocryphalBooks #Athanasius #Belief #Bible #BiblicalLiterature #BishopMelito #Christianity #CodexVaticanus #CyrilOfJerusalem #DeuterocanonicalBooks #God #Jesus #MartinLuther #Origen #WesternChristianity
“I don’t have to go to church to be a Christian.” I’ve heard this said many times by well-meaning people of faith. To be honest, they’re right. The Apostle Paul writes in his letter to the Romans, “If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Rom. 10:9, NLT) Weekly church attendance is not listed here as being requisite for admittance into Christendom.
https://theliturgicalpentecostal.wordpress.com/2024/02/19/being-christian-without-a-community/
#Attendance #Believer #Christianity #Church #ChurchAttendance #Community #Faith #FaithCommunity #WesternChristianity
Increasingly, young people are being exposed to content creators who espouse beliefs that undermine not only faith but the essential nature of human uniqueness and the special qualities of each person. These content creators undermine traditional Christian beliefs and degrade the younger generations’ ability to embrace their uniqueness as humans.
https://theliturgicalpentecostal.wordpress.com/2024/02/12/you-are-important/
#Christianity #Church #Faith #IanMcConnell #ImagoDei #NeilDeGrasseTyson #Self-importance #SocialMedia #WesternChristianity
What is the cost of blasphemy? Blasphemy is irreverence toward something considered sacred. It's based on the Greek word “blasphémos,” a derivative of the words “blaptó” (meaning “hurt”) and “phémi” (meaning “declare”). In short, blasphemy is any declaration that damages what's meant to be held as sacred or treats it with less respect than it's due.
https://theliturgicalpentecostal.wordpress.com/2024/02/05/the-cost-of-blasphemy/
#Bible #BibleTranslation #Blaspheme #Blasphemy #Christianity #Church #EnglishRevisedVersion #ERV #Faith #God #Gospel #Jesus #JustinBieber #TheGospelByGenZ #WesternChristianity
The Sabbath. So often, we busy ourselves with rote actions: we read a devotional, we read a passage from the Bible, or we pray—out of obligation instead of devotion. But we very rarely practice rest. For the majority of the week, our time and attention is consumed by work of one kind or another. So, in participating in the Sabbath, we need to set firm boundaries that separate that day from work.
https://theliturgicalpentecostal.wordpress.com/2023/10/05/revisited-on-the-7th-day-we-rest/
#AmericanChurch #Belief #Bible #Christianity #Church #DayOfRest #Faith #Rest #Resting #Sabbath #Shabbat #WesternChristianity
I revisited the blog post I wrote concerning the believer-centric nature of worship. My feelings concerning this remain the same as they did back in February. Worship should be about who God is.
https://theliturgicalpentecostal.wordpress.com/2023/09/15/revisited-is-worship-too-believer-centric/
#AmericanChristianity #AmericanChurch #Believer #BishopMichaelCurry #Christianity #Church #Contemporarychristianworship #Episcopal #Episcopalian #EvelynUnderhill #JohnWesley #MichaelCurry #ModernWorship #R.C.Sproul #WesternChristianity #Worship #WorshipSongs
In my last post, I mentioned that many churches have replaced the church bulletin with social media posts. Believe me, the irony of asking that question as I write a blog reflecting on church practice is not lost on me. This brings me to my question: Do we rely too much on technology in the American church?
https://theliturgicalpentecostal.wordpress.com/2023/02/16/technology-and-the-church/
#AmericanChurch #Asbury #AsburyCollege #AsburyOutpouring #Azusa #AzusaStreet #AzusaStreetRevival #Cameras #Christianity #Church #ChurchLife #ChurchPractice #Livestream #Livestreaming #Post-CovidChurch #SocialMedia #StageLights #Technology #TechnologyInChurch #WesternChristianity
Wishing a blessed Laetare Sunday to you all #Lent #WesternChristianity
“Before she was in labor she gave birth; before her pain came upon her she delivered a son. Who has heard of such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be delivered in one moment? Yet as soon as Zion was in labor she delivered her children. Shall I open the womb and not deliver? says the Lord; shall I, the one who delivers, shut the womb? says your God. Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice with her in joy, all you who mourn over her— that you may nurse and be satisfied from her consoling breast, that you may drink deeply with delight from her glorious bosom. For thus says the Lord: I will extend prosperity to her like a river and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing stream, and you shall nurse and be carried on her arm and bounced on her knees. As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.”
Isaiah 66:7-13 NRSVUE
#OldTestament #BookOfIsaiah
The Very Recent Origins of the Christmas Tree
(with receipts; academic & historical records & available evidence)
A traditional western epiphanytide blessing:
20 ✝️ C ✝️ M ✝️ B ✝️ 23
Normally written in chalk on the front door but why not post it here as well 💟
2023 for the year (some people do 22 and 23 for the year before and the year now)
CMB is for “Christus mansionem benedicat”
(Also can be the initials of 3 kings [Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar] some people even just write IIIK for 3 kings too)
#Christianity #WesternChristianity #ChristianPrayer #Blessing #EpiphanyoftheLord #ChalkingTheDoor
Today (friday 6th) we celebrate in #WesternChristianity the Feast of #Epiphany, a memorial of three times we see Jesus revealed as God:
1. The adoration of the Magi.
2. The Baptism of the Lord in the Jordan River.
3. The weding of Cana.
However, the most visible aspect of the Feast is the first one. The Baptism of the Lord is also celebrated in most places the following sunday (January 8th this year).
I think the #ChristianChurch in the United States needs an overhaul. I know I'm not alone in that thought, but on my drive home today I was thinking about church or (or temple for Jews at the time of Jesus) and fellowship for #WesternChristianity are one in the same, but I don't think they always have been. During most of history, people in a community were well known by each other. Now, we have such large communities it's easy for people to get lost.
So...What then is the purpose of church? 1/2
Exactly, and we’re only talking #WesternChristianity, there’s the whole world of #EasternChristianity too.