C. S. Lewis, in a book written over 80 years ago — The Screwtape Letters — talked about the dangers of letting politics become your religion. Lewis put the following words in the mouth of his professorial devil-uncle who was instructing a nephew on one way to wreck his human target:
“Let [your patient] begin by treating … Patriotism or Pacifism as part of his religion. Then let him, under the influence of partisan spirit, come to regard it as the most important part. Then quietly and gradually nurse him on to the stage at which the religion becomes merely part of the ‘cause,’ in which Christianity is valued chiefly because of the excellent arguments it can produce.”
(https://www.christianpost.com/voices/when-politics-becomes-your-religion.html)
..., it becomes vulnerable to the prevailing social causes of the day. Evidence of this is as close as the nearest Protestant mainline church. (https://spectator.org/how-a-church-fought-back-against-a-liberal-takeover-and-won/)
The denomination spawned by the walkout, the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, which comprised about 250 congregations, served as the catalyst for the formation, in 1988, of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is proudly on the left these days, and it is beset by all the maladies of other mainline Protestant churches — plummeting membership, social-justice obsession, and sexual adventurism (endorsing same-sex marriage, transgender bishops, drag shows, and the like). Among the many lessons this story teaches is this: If the authority of the Sacred Scriptures is diminished, then the causes du jour take over.
“But in September 2023, that billboard provider, Clear Channel Outdoor, “soft canceled” its client of several decades — by moving the educational nonprofit into an “advocacy” category for which it would have to pay significantly higher rates. The company also initially required PLAA to identify itself in its ads similar to a political organization, including a “Paid for by” box, which might have jeopardized the nonprofit’s tax-exempt status.” NCR
“No matter how much some Masons insist that one can be Catholic and belong to a lodge, the reality is that these two visions of the world and of God are irreconcilable,” he warned. (https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/258841/freemasonry-why-the-church-prohibits-membership)
I’ve been praying that Walz would be picked. Now we can all see how corrupt Minnesota politics have been. Thank you Lord, please heal our beautiful state of Minnesota!
Imagine, millions of God’s people around the world; reading, meditating, and praying together, the Gospel and Word of the Day, everyday!
The Lord teaches us not to be afraid to follow Him, because the hope that we place in Him will never disappoint. Thus, we are called to learn from Him what it means to live on mercy so as to be instruments of mercy. Live on mercy so as to be instruments of mercy: live on mercy and feel needful of Jesus’ mercy, and when we feel in need of forgiveness, of consolation, let us learn to be merciful to others.
(https://www.vaticannews.va/en/word-of-the-day/2024/07/18.html)
Imagine, millions of God’s people around the world reading, meditating, and praying together, the Gospel and Word of the Day, everyday!
Jesus prays, praising the Father. And his prayer also leads us, readers of the Gospel, to judge our personal defeats in a different way, to judge differently the situations in which we do not see clearly the presence and action of God, when it seems that evil prevails and there is no way to stop it. Jesus, who highly recommended the prayer of asking, at the very moment when he would have had reason to ask the Father for explanations, instead begins to praise him. Giving praise is like breathing pure oxygen: it purifies the soul, it makes you look far ahead, it does not leave you imprisoned in the difficult and dark moment of hardship.
(https://www.vaticannews.va/en/word-of-the-day/2024/07/17.html)
Imagine, millions of God’s people around the word reading, meditating, and praying together, the Gospel and Word of the Day, everyday!
“Today can be a day for us to make an examination of conscience, with this refrain [from Jesus]: “‘Woe to you, woe to you,’ because I have given you so much, I have given you Myself, I have chosen you to be Christian, and you prefer a life by halves, a superficial life: a little bit of Christianity and holy water, but nothing more.” When this kind of Christian hypocrisy is lived, what we end up doing is casting Jesus from our hearts. We pretend to have Him, but we have cast him out. “We are Christians,” [we say.] “We are proud to be Christians.” But we live like pagans.”
(https://www.vaticannews.va/en/word-of-the-day/2024/07/16.html)
Imagine, millions of God’s people around the word reading, meditating, and praying together, the same Gospel and Word of the Day, everyday!
“if you leave everything for Jesus, the people recognize the Lord in you; but at the same time it helps you to convert each day to him, so as to renew and purify yourself from compromises and to overcome temptations.”
(https://www.vaticannews.va/en/word-of-the-day/2024/07/15.html)
Imagine, millions of God’s people around the word reading, meditating, and praying together, the Gospel and Word of the Day, everyday!
“ At times one feels this spiritual barrenness; we must not fear it. The Father takes care of us, because our value is great in His eyes. What matters is frankness, the courage of our witness, our witness of faith: “recognizing Jesus before men” and going forth doing good.”
(https://www.vaticannews.va/en/word-of-the-day/2024/07/13.html)
Hi all, been here for years… I ordered a 2023 Super Duty F-350 in October. Was told it should arrive end of March, early April and I’m STILL waiting for a vin number, which means it’s not even being built yet. I can’t find anything related to it, or why the delay is so long. Dealer doesn’t have a reason. My friend who works with corporate doesn’t know. The customer service line doesn’t know… Gotta be something deeper going on. Remember when Trump was at FoMoCo? And, not everyone has a choice? I wonder if they aren’t busy building other stuff for the War?