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I give you Exhibit A: Jesus was fully human. He had human emotions and in this instance I like to call this incident not the “cleansing of the temple” but “Jesus flips his s***t”. There is nothing wrong with righteous anger, if there is injustice or greed or cruelty (especially in the name of God)  we should get angry. We should shout, we should scream, we should protest. We should not keep quiet and accept evil in our Fathers house. Jesus didn’t. And  He is with is us when we cry “NO MORE!!”.

I give you Exhibit A:

Jesus was fully human. He had human emotions and in this instance I like to call this incident not the “cleansing of the temple” but “Jesus flips his s***t”.

There is nothing wrong with righteous anger, if there is injustice or greed or cruelty (especially in the name of God)  we should get angry. We should shout, we should scream, we should protest. We should not keep quiet and accept evil in our Fathers house. Jesus didn’t. And  He is with is us when we cry “NO MORE!!”.

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Reblogged 1 month ago from timewashed 149 notes

Do they know what it’s like?

I remember a song I used to sing at primary school (which was church run), it was one my favorites:

“Jesus love is very wonderful, Jesus love is very wonderful, Jesus love is very wonderful, oh wonderful love, SO high you can’t get over it, SO low you can’t get under it, SO wide you can’t get round it, oh wonderful love”

Does the church know what it’s like when you realise at fifteen that, that song was a lie? That they lied to me. They didn’t tell me that love was conditional. They didn’t tell me that love that Jesus gave on the cross only counted if I didn’t wake up sweaty and gasping from dreams about girls that I knew would horrify my mother, didn’t count every time I got butterflies when I saw that girl in school.

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Posted 2 months ago 23 notes

Jesus Friend of Sinners - Casting Crowns


Jesus, friend of sinners, the truth’s become so hard to see
The world is on their way to You but they’re tripping over me
Always looking around but never looking up I’m so double minded
A plank eyed saint with dirty hands and a heart divided

Jesus, friend of sinners, the one who’s writing in the sand
Made the righteous turn away and the stones fall from their hands
Help us to remember we are all the least of these
Let the memory of Your mercy bring Your people to their knees
Nobody knows what we’re for only what we’re against when we judge the wounded
What if we put down our signs crossed over the lines and loved like You did

Oh Jesus, friend of sinners
Open our eyes to world at the end of our pointing fingers
Let our hearts be led by mercy
Help us reach with open hearts and open doors
Oh Jesus, friend of sinners, break our hearts for what breaks yours

And I was the lost cause and I was the outcast
Yeah…
You died for sinners just like me, a grateful leper at Your feet
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I would have posted the video but I really wanted to focus on these few lyrics! 
To me, very few modern worship songs carry the message of Jesus that I want to give people. This is truly my view of the Gospel and it’s truly amazingly powerful! A verse that I love is the second one that starts with the line about ‘the one writing in the sand’. It is just so amazing! We are ALL the least of these. The Bible doesn’t say the ‘less than you’. We are all in need of God and it seems that Christians (including me and others reading this) feel like we’re good enough. That now that we’re saved we can judge. I know that’s something I’VE had to work on lately is judging. It’s time that we look back and remember that He died for ALL of us! And the lyrics are true. We should be so amazed with what God did for us that we fall to our knees in awe and praise. I’m not saying I do that, this post is very much self-convicting for me! We need to pray that God fill our hearts with His glory and that we are reminded every single day of what He did for us!
But I think my favorite line in the entire song is the one that says ‘Nobody knows what we’re for only what we’re against when we judge the wounded’. The modern church is so bad at this right now. We are so quick to ignore new members to our church’s because they are different when we need to remember that a church is not a ‘museum for the holy’, it’s a hospital for the hurting! (And again, self-convicting. I’m so far from perfect it’s ridiculous!) I think it’s true that we need to  put down our signs and start to love like God told us to, even if you’re not holding a sign! 

This is truly a message for everyone. Whether you’re gay, straight, bi, or whatever. If you are for gay rights love those who say you’re wrong, and I know it’s hard! If you’re NOT for gay rights then, guess what! You get to love those of us who are! Again, it’s hard but we need to do it! Jesus said in Matthew that the greatest commandment was to love God above everything else. And the second was like it, love your neighbor as yourself. You see, it all comes back to love! There is truly a divide right now between the gay community and the church and the hostility between the two is doing nothing but make the rift wider. Showing Godly love my respecting each other even if you disagree is the first step to mending the divide in the family of God!

These are just the thoughts I had while listening to this song tonight! 
God bless! <3
-Davis

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Posted 4 months ago 13 notes

missmeaganlouise:

You know all those wonderful Conservative parents who proceed to abandon, kick out, or cut off their children for any reason (including, but not limited to a child’s sexuality)?
Well here we go:

“But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”
1 Timothy 5:8 (NKJV)

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Reblogged 4 months ago from jof (Originally from mightbemeagan-deactivated201305) 22,647 notes

I Had An Awe and Wonder Moment A Few Days Ago….

I was watching the latest recording of “Jesus Christ Superstar” at the 02 (you will only really know about this is you British OR a big fan of Andrew Lloyd Webber/Musicals (what am I saying? This IS Gay Christian.) And while the whole thing was wonderful, it came to the crucifixion, the script for this part is a combination of what Jesus say’s in all four Gospels during his death and an added line of “Where is my mother?! I want my mother!” 

The moment the actor said “I thirst! I am thirsty!” the tone was angry and desperate. From some reason the voice of Jesus has never come to me while reading the Gospels. I do not know why. I cannot hear Him, how His voice would have sounded, I have tried,  and this is why, I have come to realise, it took me such a long time to form a bond with Him.

The tone of that sentence sent me back to a First Aid Training session I had about  a month ago:

“When someone’s body goes into shock, they will become very, very thirsty, they will demand a drink, they may even get violent and angry.”

Of course if someone today is injured and in shock you can’t give them a drink as normally it is caused by a severe injury that needs surgery and anesthetic will need to be used. But of course Jesus, didn’t need an anesthetic. He was dying. He was being executed. In agony. And his body went into shock. His body was just like ours. This rocked my soul. It struck me to my very core. I literally couldn’t speak for two hours. Jesus went into shock and begged for water to quench that resulting desperate thirst. Yes it also fulfilled a prophecy but for me it now means so much more. I had been told time and time again that Jesus was fully human but I don’t fully believe it sunk in. Theological teaching that I knew was true but I didn’t KNOW in my soul it was. That has now changed. 

Alicia

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Posted 4 months ago 19 notes