Genesis 3:19 – Ash Wednesday & Hosanna in the highest

Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Ash Wednesday -”Remember, man, that thou art dust, and unto dust thou shalt return”.
It’s very good to be reminded that we’re moral. [...]

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Specialization faith

I think that the fragmentation of the Protestant church is excellerating-Study Reveals State of U.S. Church Planting
approximately 4,000 churches are being planted in the United States each year – an all-time high….church planting is much more varied than in the past with “missional,” “seeker-sensitive,” “purpose-driven” and ethnic church planting models being developed. And these new [...]

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Congregationalism, Presbyterianism, Episcopal -Anglicanism, Orthodox, & Catholicism

Church history is an amazing field of endeavor. I wish I had taken that up in my college years, but I doubt you can make a living out of it or at least I doubt that I could do so. Anyway division within Christianity [by that I mean those who accept at a minimum two [...]

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A $500,000 bible? That’s right

A traditional (as in the past 500 years) claim by protestants is that the Catholic church prohibited individuals to own and read bibles. There were naturally two many issues, first the printing press wasn’t invented yet and a bible was very expensive to produce. Bibles were in fact chained in the church to keep someone [...]

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