#True Jesus Church

[faggyangel]

thinking about crowley and "my lover's got humor, she's the giggle at a funeral" and "knows everybody's disapproval, i should have worshipped her sooner" and "if the heavens ever did speak then she's the last true mouth piece" and "the only heaven i'll be sent to is when i'm alone with you" and "my lover's the sunlight" and "i was born sick but i love it" and "there is no sweeter innocence then our gentle sin"

#he was born sick #shoveling dirt into my mouth are you kidding #holy fucking shit crowley looking at aziraphale and thinking if the heaven's ever did speak then she's the last true mouth piece #hozier said this song is about “reclaiming your humanity through the act of love” he literally said “it's essentially about sex” and how th #church teaches people to feel shame about sex and love #jesus fucking christ crowley finds absolution through his love and desire for aziraphale not through god or heaven but through this sin #i will not survive i am weak i am mmmmmmm #good omens #aziracrow #inneffable husbands are being inneffable again #crowley tag

[truedevotiondesign]

"Consider the lilies, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin. But I say to you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these"

Lily Rosary - found here at True Devotion Design

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[queenlucythevaliant]

The Star Market

Marie Howe

The people Jesus loved were shopping at the Star Market yesterday. An old lead-colored man standing next to me at the checkout breathed so heavily I had to step back a few steps.

Even after his bags were packed he still stood, breathing hard and hawking into his hand. The feeble, the lame, I could hardly look at them: shuffling through the aisles, they smelled of decay, as if the Star Market

had declared a day off for the able-bodied, and I had wandered in with the rest of them—sour milk, bad meat— looking for cereal and spring water.

Jesus must have been a saint, I said to myself, looking for my lost car in the parking lot later, stumbling among the people who would have been lowered into rooms by ropes, who would have crept

out of caves or crawled from the corners of public baths on their hands and knees begging for mercy.

If I touch only the hem of his garment, one woman thought, could I bear the look on his face when he wheels around?

#I posted an excerpt of this poem yesterday but it felt necessary to post the whole thing today #because this poem #this darn poem #knows exactly where i live #'the feeble the lame i could hardly look at them' #i (like many of you) grew up around Christians like 85% of the time #i chose not to go to a Christian college specifically so that i could try to mitigate this part of my heart #that feels almost viscerally uncomfortable around certain types of people #i want to learn to love all my neighbors with Christ's abounding love #i know that I am no less sinful than my neighbor #but sometimes it's like there's a bee in the room and i don't know where it is #i'm set on edge by certain kinds of sin #in a way that i'm not by others #i'm sure this is true in degrees for many of us raised in the church #and this poem. this darn poem calls us out directly #it calls /me/ out directly #'The people Jesus loved were shopping at the Star Market yesterday. I could hardly look at them.' #'Jesus must have been a saint (that's the one bit i don't like-- Jesus must have been GOD) to be able to love these people' #'these people who came stumbling towards him crawling towards him lowered through the ceiling towards him' #'begging for mercy. begging with more humility than I manage on any but my best day' #'the people Jesus loved-- and i could hardly look at them' #and that last line hits you right in the solar plexus #'if I could only touch the hem of his garment could I bear the look on his face when he wheels around?' #no. no i don't think i could #and yet #i imagine that look would be so so beautiful #and by the grace of God i know i CAN bear it #i and all the other people Jesus loves #Bible humans #literature makes us more human

[adrienschat]

*screaming on the top of my lungs* that’s not what Jesus would have wanted

(Venting in tags)

#this is in reference to my brother saying he doesn’t want a relationship with ME cause I’m gay and not living a righteous life #like oh you mean? me ? a sinner ? because I have a girlfriend and drink coffee?? #as opposed to you #not a sinner #even though you cheated on your wife multiple times and assaulted me twice and someone else? and then kicked me out of your hous #when I was homeless in Idaho winter #because your wife was slightly uncomfortable with someone asleep on her couch? you #definitely righteous you #who should be in jail actually for some of the thing s you’ve done? #but no IM the sinner cause I don’t Believe In The True Church #and you’re the sinner because at least you pray and go to church. and Partake of the Lords Sacramrny #please forgive me for saying this but #THATS NOT EHAT JESUS WOULD SAY #SO ACTUALLY FUCK? YOU? #anyway I tore him a new one and now feel so good <3 #I have to rant here or I’ll pass away #hi this is me #Tw #Tw rant #Tw abuse #vent #Tw vent #kicked me out after ONE night #fucjing unbelievable

[mariliva-mello]

A verdade reina para sempre!

A pouco tempo fui entender essa frase na real. Desde adolescente busquei ao Senhor e a sua verdade. Busquei Ele como minha luz e direção.

Me deparei com um problema de saúde ano passado, passei por três médicos que deram diagnósticos diferentes. Eu acreditei neles, acreditei que tinha aquela doença e passei meses crendo que minha vida seria assim, que não tinha cura pra mim e ia ter que conviver com esse problema.

Então Jesus chegou de mansinho, alinhou tudo, me encaminhou para a verdade, uma profissional que agiu com integridade! Jesus me mostrou a verdade!

Se não fosse Ele, até hoje eu estaria pensando que tinha uma doença incurável!

Jesus me levou a verdade total!

A verdade de Jesus reinará em nosso tempo. Eu declaro que toda a mentira virá a luz e será revelada a verdade do Pai. E a verdade nos libertará!

M a r i l i v a Mello

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[misespinas]

"And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,/ And said unto them, It is written, 'My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.'"

Matthew 21:12-13 (KJV)

so true Jesus

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[gramarobin]

#evangelicals #bible #church #god #jesus #religion #rapture #oprah #exvangelical #ex christian #funny and true #demons #the devil #spiritual warfare

[penmanshipeb]

Christ's initial warning that he gave concerning the end times was, "Be Not Deceived" . . . His foremost sign regarding the end times was of False Teachers. . . (Matthew 24:4-5; Mark 13:5-6; Luke 21:8)

It's upsetting and disappointing how many in the Body receives these who are exactly who Christ forewarns: But, the apostasy of the Church or the "great falling away" is too a sign prior to the "man of sin" (II Thessalonians 2:3-4; I Timothy 4:1; II Timothy 4:3-4). There is a direct correlation between the two.

🤔 Only with God can a man have great success but yet fail or be lost . . . Men will rally behind one who is telling them what they want or allowing them to be how they want in the name of God . . . Churches flourish like this. But, "BE NOT DECEIVED. God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap" (Galatians 6:7).

In the Church, in most instances, when we emphatically proclaim that one can really sang or that one can really preach, what is actually being praised or being stated is that "This person can really entertain you" . . .

I just keep silent, watch, and think. In these deceptive times, "Don't be deceived." You can't follow a crowd and find God. Much love 💝

📖 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; and that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. - 2 Timothy 3:13‭-‬15

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[roses-red-and-pink]

For if there be no Christ there be no God; and I’d there be no God we are not, for there could have been no creation. But there is a God, and he is Christ, and he cometh in the fullness of his own time.

2 Nephi 11:7, the Book of Mormon

#my life #christianity #the church of jesus christ of latter day saints #idk why this verse stood out to me today #something about just the simple declaration that Christ is God and he lives and created us #the Holy Ghost speaks true doctrine to our souls

[melangedmess]

Can't wait for Christmas fever to be over it's too exhausting

#Personal #Nothing ever good happens during Christmas #You have your catholic parents and relatives spewing the most atrocious bullshit and u have sit there like 🙎🏻‍♀️ #SHUTUP #I am glad they aren't so uptight abt church & all now at least. #The fact they are converted Christians is hilarious and sad like #Christian missionaries are EVIL and I will never stop yelling about it. If something has to convince you or worse prey when you are the mos #Vulnerable then that's not a religion that's a cult. Especially led by 1 (one) person???? #When that church can only ever talk abt Jesus being killed by the blood thirsty jews. Flat Earth. #or whatever bs u try to cook up. This group of missionaries have been busted on news a lot for being. funded by outside aid to #Convert more people. #I can't believe how brainwashing will have you believe the most weirdest shit. #Altho I'm thankful they weren't converted to Islam because then i wouldn't have the freedom I do now plus the horrible stories I've heard #From ex muslims #What other religion is there anyway who is so bent on converting as many people as they possibly could #To all my friends who have succeeded in leaving behind their families of both these cult-ish religions I love you and I'm glad you're safe. #It still affects me. I can't wait to finally start earning enough to leave this whole chapter behind. I've had enough. #Anyway if you can't tell or simply lack basic comprehension it's not a attack on YOU. It's a world wide phenomenon of conversion and brain #You can't deny that and I'm again NOT blaming you for it. Religious trauma is real. #The gangs or worse family members who will kill you for leaving religions is not something unknown. It's real it's true it's happening. #Anyway

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

by Daniel Brueske and John Lee | We believe that the term “service,” as applied to the mission of Jesus, must be understood in a nuanced and refined manner. Its overuse in our era has cheapened the concept. But in Jesus’s case, “service” meant embracing the most shameful and despised fate of his time...

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[heathersdesk]

oooooooooh noooooooo 🙈🙈🙈

#mormon #lds #mormonism #religion #the church of jesus christ of latter day saints #chad daybell #true crime #that's the wife he killed #icymi

[truedevotiondesign]

Green Pearl Rosary

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[dramoor]

Practicing His Presence

“It is only by remembering that ‘Another lives in me’ that we can die daily to that old, false, usurping self, and that we can continue to be drawn further in and higher up into the life of God.  To ‘practice the Presence’ is to continually call to mind this great reality.

Once again we see that the secret is incarnational.  One dies to the old self and lives to the new by continuing to receive of the Other Life.  Even our prayers, in true prayer, are really His prayers.  He speaks to Himself through us.  And it is the same with all the virtues and all the fruits and gifts of the Spirit.  All are equally derivative.  We must never forget this, and we must always practice this Holy Presence, even though we can do it only for moments at first.

This really is the whole of Christianity.  Christianity isn’t a covenant or a law but it is a life - it is Another Life being lived in and through us.  Our human spirit, when in union with this Holy Other, is the higher self.  The ‘practice of the Presence’ leads to the knowledge of this higher self, and away from either the wrong kind of self-love or self-hatred.  It is in this New Life that we find our souls as well as our spirits - indeed, the whole of our nature - raised.

This is why we do not need to fear our intellects, our imaginations, our emotions, our intuitive beings, or our bodies.  We simply offer them wholly to God and find them revitalized and redirected.  By the principle of the incarnation the Highest is transposed into the lowest, and man finds himself resurrected in every faculty of his being.  This is the true, the whole self.”

~Taken from THE REAL PRESENCE IN THE WRITINGS OF C.S. LEWIS, by Leanne Payne, © 1979

(Photo © dramoor 2022 Lower Chapel, Basilica of the Holy Blood - Bruges, Belgium)

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[loudmouthdreamwalker]

Some people have complained about The Chosen creators not doing enough to condemn Mormonism. Will The Chosen get into what Jesus could have thought about something like Mormonism?

Ah. Mhmm.

So, Dallas has responded to the Mormon issue several times, and while I haven't gotten the chance to watch his videos on the issue, I'm grateful for his efforts and his honesty.

The thing is.

Mormonism is not actually a denomination of Christianity. If you look up the list of basic requirements for being a Christian, they don't meet all of them. And they've added stuff on as well. Which makes them a cult. And heretical. BUT. Many many of the members do believe that it is a denomination of Christianity, and witness that to others! Which makes it a sticky thing to address.

The thing I most admire about this show is how dedicated it is to bringing together ALL followers of Christ from ALL denominations around the world. An organization in which the majority of the members do not realize what they are, and what they are not, is inevitably going to get involved, and honestly? I would think it is better that these people are touched by it in some way than if they are not. If someone innocently believes in their hearts that they are following Christ, then He will not discount them. We already know that Jesus is Eternal Love, and that He offers this love to EVERY human being, however we try to pursue it. As for those who are aware of what they belong to, and are getting involved with ulterior motives, may God have mercy on them. Christians are right to be worried at the idea of their beliefs possibly trying to interact with ours. (You can find stuff on YouTube about what the higher-level Mormons believe and teach, and it is utterly terrifying.) I think that all we can do is treat them with kindness, pray for them, and set an example by how we pursue truth without compromise in our own lives.

"Courage, dear heart".

We have the benefit of knowing that Truth already won. The gates of Lies will not prevail against our advances.

Pax Christi.

~LD~

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[mariliva-mello]

Ser verdadeiro não é humilhar o outro, nem contar o que aconteceu ou fez aos seus olhos da razão, mas sim revelar de acordo com a visão humilde de Deus.

- Mariliva Mello

#cristã #cruz #verdade #true #jesus #gospel #fé #amor #church #holy spirit #paz #god #abba #propósito #savecure