Salvation by Faith in God
8 You were saved by faith in God, who treats us much better than we deserve. This is God's gift to you, and not anything you have done on your own. 9 It isn't something you have earned, so there is nothing you can brag about. 10 God planned for us to do good things and to live as he has always wanted us to live. This is why he sent Christ to make us what we are.
— Ephesians 2:8-10 | Contemporary English Version (CEV)
Holy Bible, Contemporary English Version Copyright © 1995 by American Bible Society.
Cross References: Psalm 51:10; Isaiah 19:25; Isaiah 29:23; Isaiah 43:7; John 4:10; Acts 15:11; Romans 3:24; Romans 3:28; Romans 9:16; 1 Corinthians 1:29; Galatians 6:15; 2 Timothy 1:9; Titus 3:5
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it’s not my fault
danger is so appealing
dancing on a razor’s edge
is too thrilling to resist
embraced by darkness
the sweet ecstasy of almost
kisses my soul
my own salvation
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Salvation by Jamie Tukpah
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The Union of Salvation
'The first Russian secret society, the Union of Salvation, began with a restrictive and nonimperial concept of the nation: its initial aim was "resistance to the Germans in the Russian state service." However, it soon broadened its agenda and turned to promoting the "welfare of Russia" by advancing the idea of regulating serfdom, or possibly abolishing it and transforming the autocracy into a constitutional monarchy. This was the first time a political movement had been created in Russia with such an ambitious aim, and how it was to be accomplished was never really settled.
To give the movement's ideas wider currency, the Union of Salvation turned itself into the Union of Welfare, with a public arm devoted, like the masons, to philanthropy, education, justice, and morality. These were laid out in a Green Book, which bound every member to seek public office if possible, but in any case to promote the aims of the union through personal example, practical activity, and the denunciation of official abuses. Members were required to be male, Christian, nonserf, and Russian.
The exclusion of serfs was characteristic … the Union was unambiguously elitist, as its concept of citizenship implied. The Green Book did not recommend freeing the serfs, merely treating them humanely on the grounds that "subordinates are also people."
The members of the Union later became known as Decembrists, because of the attempted coup in 1825 which grew out of their activity. But most of them, even those in its secret wing, had no definite political strategy in mind. For the most part, if they took its ideals seriously, they did so by trying to live out its precepts in everyday life. As Iurii Lotman has shown, they were trying to overcome the duality which existed between the Enlightenment culture in which they had been educated and the reality of life at court and on their estates, where most relationships were unadornedly hierarchical. They did not so much reject social etiquette as try to behave as if they really felt the sentiments normally expressed only for convention's sake. Many of them rejected the prevailing patriarchal notions of family life, seeing marriage not mainly as a means of perpetuating the rod (kin), but rather as a partnership of two equal adults joined by mutual affection and committed to the humane upbringing of children. In reaction against hierarchy and frivolity, they practiced an intense cult of sincerity and friendship among equals. The poet Aleksandr Pushkin grew up in this environment, and although he was never a Decembrist himself, his early poetry celebrated precisely those ideals. They were part of the atmosphere in which young nobles lived; the main significance of the movement was that its members tried to practice them consistently even in a discouraging environment.'
Russia and the Russians, by Geoffrey Hosking
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So all People... come to the Light with which Christ Jesus has enlightened you, that with it you may see your Salvation, and know Christ your Teacher, your Captain of your Salvation, and the Grace that comes by him.
George Fox, Some Principles of the Elect People of God Who in Scorn are Called Quakers (1661)
Painting: El Greco’s Christ the Saviour
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yep still thinking abt my tendency to write psychotic characters being offered some sort of salvation by being told they can quit thinking and do as told instead.psychosis makes it so hard to think straight and idk im tired of being upset lmao
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Fuck PETA.
Fuck the Salvation Army.
Fuck Autism Speaks.
Fuck Chick-Fil-A.
Fuck the American government.
Fuck organizations.
Fuck society.
Fuck humanity.
(Yes, I'm mad.)
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यशया 45:22
दूरदूरच्या ठिकाणी राहणाऱ्या लोकांनी देवाचे अनुसरण करणे थांबवले. तुम्ही मला अनुसरावे व स्वतःचे रक्षण करून घ्यावे. मीच देव. दुसरा देव नाही. मीच फक्त देव आहे.
Turn to Me, and be saved,
all the ends of the earth.
For I am God—there is no other.
— Isaiah 45:22 | Marathi Bible: Easy-to-Read Version (ERV-MR) and Tree of Life Version (TLV)
Marathi Bible: Easy-to-Read Version © Bible League International and Tree of Life Translation of the Bible. Copyright © 2015 by The Messianic Jewish Family Bible Society.
Cross References: Numbers 21:8-9; 2 Chronicles 20:12; Isaiah 30:15; Isaiah 43:6; Isaiah 49:6; Isaiah 49:12
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Let's Talk About Going Home
I write this blog today after attending a group meeting that included a yummy Mexican lunch! Was it the dying part that enticed me to go to the meeting or was it the free lunch? Maybe both. At our ripe ages, it is incumbent upon us to consider “What’s Next?” – at least regarding helping our children manage our passing.
At the last several funerals aka memorial services we have attended, each of…
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Hatred
The second Imam of the Shia Muslims says: In the days before the return of the promised savior, most of people will hate each other.
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