I'm months ahead for my latest #LectionaryPrayers: 'Weekly Worship' is a resource from the #Church of #Scotland for #clergy, #WorshipLeaders and #preachers. July is now up- I contributed the resource for 23 July. A complete set of #prayers, plus my #commentary and reflection on all the #Bible texts- including the #Parable of the Weeds and Jacob's dream at #Bethel
#WorshipLeaders #preaching #ChurchOfScotland #Christianity #theology #StoneOfDestiny
https://churchofscotland.org.uk/worship/weekly-worship/monthly/july-2023
#ChurchofScotland
#StoneOfDestiny #theology #christianity #ChurchofScotland #preaching #Bethel #parable #bible #commentary #prayers #preachers #worshipleaders #clergy #scotland #church #lectionaryprayers
The Preacher Who Scammed America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7pber8DCro
#religion #scams #jackCoe #christianity #evangelicals #scammer #preachers
#religion #scams #jackcoe #christianity #evangelicals #scammer #preachers
First #Sunday of #Lent today, with the most amazing texts. Sensible #preachers will be demythologizing furiously today...
https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=24
drag queen preachers are becoming a new trend.
if you want to see the video clip, go to this link ππ½
https://twitter.com/CatchUpNetwork/status/1626969317979099136
#drags
#preachers
#European #preachers in an #American mega-church ;-) https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2023/0213/1356268-u2-confirm-achtung-baby-las-vegas-residency/
#american #preachers #european
I was looking at #jobs earlier, and all I could see was one compromise after the other. Imagine! To be comfortable in this capitalist system, I have to spend my time - my life - furthering someone else's capitalist agenda, nationalistic ideals, or otherwise work to concentrate someone else's #power & resources. And the folks who say they do something different appear to all be lying - I suppose someone has to pay them too in the end, how else could they afford my cushy day #rate?
I suppose I could #volunteer, or pay for #learning opportunities and adopt someone else's way of viewing the world for a while. That'll make me feel better! Or I could start walking on someone's road to #spiritual enlightenment and tell myself that, if these people say it's OK, then it must be. Even self-employed as a most #progressive #consultant, #facilitator, #coach, #therapist or - fuck it - #white #shaman #entrepreneur, I help people reflect and #dream for just a moment so that they can get the fuck back to #work. How else could they afford my #competitive hourly rate?
And now I'm getting old! I wish I could say that I'm looking forward to what the next generation will come up with, but then the world is ending so... So perhaps things are just shot to shit, #ragnarok is coming and I'm getting #old
Well, at least I #served a #purpose throughout my life. I fed the leeches at the top by giving them my #time, paying my #taxes, tossing my #vote, and generally being #busy and #good in #fear of not ending up a #bum, in #prison, or worse! At least I wasn't (openly) #racist, I kept my #sexism to my personal relationships and only implicitly supported the #patriarchy by insisting it's not there at all. I'm definitely a #feminist though, I was always terrified of my #mom. And although it really made me feel better to #judge people who were fatter, poorer or weaker than me, I only occasionally shared my true feelings with them. Oh, and not to mention the folks with smaller #dicks - haha! - and #black folks, #women or #queer people, thank Thor and the Lord and the Lady that I'm dying before I can no longer feel #superior to them!
But I wasn't bad. I did enjoy cheering for #BLM, and #XR, go you! For a moment there, I felt like even I was doing something! (Although #UFC and the #worldcup were more fun.) But mostly, I suppose, I mastered the art of shutting the #fuck up, silently enjoying my #safety and my #priviledge, and - oh, this I did really well - quickly inventing new #excuses for my pale & hairy ass in the elevator up to my 28th floor #hotdesking space. Change? How? I mean, it was just never the right time... And hey, my therapist and men's group think I'm alright!
OK, well, it is the time for me to #die now. Fuck #Heaven, fuck #WhiteJesus, fuck #politicians, the #rich and their lackeys the #police & #military, fuck my #priest, and fuck all of my self-help and other educative #preachers and #gurus, and then fuck everyone else who I #blame for my dreadfully #unfulfilling, #unhelpful, #disempowered and #mediocre #white existence
If only I had cared a little less for my own #comfort and a little more for people around me, then maybe I would have become an #anarchist. Alas, it's too late now, my ergonomically certified office chair has ground my #balls into dust
Please send me straight to #Hell because, in all #honesty, it's what we all know I deserve
#jobs #power #Rate #volunteer #learning #spiritual #progressive #consultant #facilitator #coach #Therapist #white #shaman #entrepreneur #dream #work #competitive #ragnarok #old #served #purpose #time #taxes #Vote #busy #good #fear #bum #prison #racist #sexism #patriarchy #feminist #mom #judge #dicks #black #women #queer #superior #blm #XR #ufc #worldcup #fuck #safety #priviledge #excuses #hotdesking #die #heaven #whitejesus #politicians #rich #police #military #priest #preachers #gurus #blame #unfulfilling #unhelpful #disempowered #mediocre #comfort #Anarchist #balls #hell #honesty
#December 12, 1907
#OTD James Rigg, #Scottish #Victorian #Poet, #HymnWriter, & #Composer, died.
His #WildFlower #Lyrics begins:
From #Boyhood, I have been #InLove with the #Wildlings:
I rank them among my #Teachers & #Preachers.
If [my #Poems lead] one here & there with a lighter #Heart,
To gather imperishable #Treasures from the #Lovely #Blossoms that #Kiss clear #Brooks & #Mountain wells -
I shall have done my #Little
to check the #Nature-#Forgetting #Tendencies of #CityLife.
#December #otd #Scottish #victorian #poet #hymnwriter #composer #wildflower #lyrics #boyhood #inlove #wildlings #teachers #preachers #poems #heart #treasures #lovely #blossoms #kiss #brooks #mountain #little #nature #forgetting #tendencies #citylife #flower
I asked ChatGPT to write a #sermon outline and this is what it made.
I think #preachers are safe yet.
I just asked #OpenAI #ChatGPT for a #sermon on a particular theme. The first one was garbage. The second one was pretty good, if very short (290 words); better indeed than some I've heard from live #preachers.
#openai #chatgpt #sermon #preachers
Do any other #preachers have #sermons when you recognise, "that was definitely God and not me"?
Somebody just shot up a #Walmart. They got #politicians that goad them into action. They got #preachers that goad them into action. They are actively at war with anyone who isn't a #white, #Christian, #right-winger. They have advocated for a civil #war and they are actively participating in one. You have to be prepared to defend yourself. I know everyone isn't comfortable with weapons, but you have to create some kind of plan to keep yourself safe from these monsters. Because they are coming.
#Walmart #politicians #preachers #white #christian #right #War
I don't preach all the time β about every 6 to 8 weeks β but I almost always use the #RCL #RevisedCommonLectionary and would like to read other #Lectionary #preachers in the Fediverse.
#rcl #revisedcommonlectionary #lectionary #preachers
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10 #PsychoPreachers Who Hate #Rock + #Metal
Check out these #wacko #preachers who preach against rock and #metal music. Booooo!If you're new, Subscribe! β http://bit.ly/subscribe-loudwireGo here β http:...
#humour #PsychoPreachers #rock #metal #wacko #preachers
All of these #apocalyptic #climatechange #doomsdayers sound more & more like #endoftimes #Pentecostal #preachers. #ParisAccord
#apocalyptic #climatechange #doomsdayers #endoftimes #pentecostal #preachers #parisaccord