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thelostlisbonsister · 10 months

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Father my Sacred Heart hurts, please don’t take it from me .

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mybeautifulpoland · 9 months

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Transfiguration of the Lord Catholic Church, Paszkówka, Poland by sopthedrone

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artthatgivesmefeelings · 9 months

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Heinrich Hermanns (German, 1862-1942) Interior of the Convent Church of Amorbach, n.d.

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milkywayrollercoaster · 7 months

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Christian church inside the temple of Philae

Egypt

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#temple of philae #christians #egypt #christian church

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n0oble · 6 months

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Israeli Forces bombed a 2,000 year old Orthodox Church where nearly 400 Christians and Muslims were seeking shelter.

Palestinians are a mix of faiths including Christian and Jewish as well as Muslim.

How long before western media blames Palestinians for bombing their own church? The same tactics they always use.

Palestinians are being blamed for their own genocide.

Call your reps now: demand a ceasefire.

#gaza #palestine #pray for palestine #gaza under attack #greek orthodox #christian church #free palestine #israel #church bombed #israeli #israel occupation #israeli occupation #war crimes

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officialyourdailyinspiration · 7 months

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by Ian M. Giatti | What happens when "cancel culture" infects the Church? Promise Keepers, an Evangelical organization founded in 1990 that holds men's rallies in stadiums nationwide, has seen several scheduled events at churches and other venues canceled in recent months…

#Your Daily Inspiration #morning headlines #Christian news #The Christian Post #cancel culture #Christian church #Promise Keepers #events canceled #gender ideology #progressive churches #liberal theology #evangelical men's outreach

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conservative-riot · 28 days

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sublimacje · 1 month

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Please, pray for me! I'm going to confession in couple of days, it's quite hard for me, because it's been long time since my last confession.

#christanity #christian rambling #christian community #god is good #catholic church #confession #jesus loves you #god loves you #jesus christ #christian church #catholiscism

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terracegallery · 4 months

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Kings Crown

Another image I was commissioned to create for Advent. A king’s crown. A type for Jesus and known to my Christian friends. Beautiful colors and jewels make up this painted fabric collage. GET IT HERE!

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angel-of-unrest · 7 months

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not to quote my own writing but…….. this shit really hitting tonight; very much encompassing all of my emotions recently 🥲

(for context, this is an excerpt from a story i’ve been working on that may very well never seen the light of day but we’ll see lmao)

#religious trauma #exvangelical #religious deconstruction #religious art #original writing #christian religion #christian church #writing #writer #excerpt

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everythingilikehere · 1 year

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Pilgrimage to the Hermitage of El Rocío.

#el rocio #andalusia #spain #europe #christianity #catholicism #christian church #horses #horse people #pilgrimage

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jasper-borealis · 1 year

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Personal post time babyyyyy

did I just bomb a crap ton of reblogs after not going on this site for almost 3 months, and now I'm going to rant? you betcha!!!

ok sooooooooo, I'm not having a good time with my faith. I have grown up my entire life as a member of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (or WELS for short) and for awhile now I just…I can't say I agree with their stances on…a lot.

what kinda scares me is that there are some folks who follow me who are highly involved members, and I'm honestly kinda scared of them sending this post to my family…so you know who you are, please please don't share this post with my family.

honestly if I tried to put all my grievances with the WELS in this post, it would be the length of the journal entries I write in a fugue state, so I'm not going into all of it. But my biggest issues I have are A. they way they go about reading the holy texts, B. how strongly political they get (some are better then others, but others…), and C. their internal synodical doctrines (Prayer fellowship is one of the biggest for me)

How they read the holy texts. as I've been studying theology, and the bible, more and more, I've been finding I take massive issues with a litteralist reading of the western cannon of the bible. I find that the bible makes much much much more interal, spiritual, and logical sense, when you read a majority of the bible as Wisdom Literature. I still read the Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John) as basically inerrant, and the Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) and mostly inerrant with stories/parables mixed in. The WELS' official way to read the bible is as 100% literal, and thus must be applied to our modern day directly [except those pesky verses about slavery, those they don't take literally (although some do…and it's terrifying), because ya know…they aren't hypocritical at alllllllll] and I just do not see strong reasons for reading the texts that way, I understand why they do…but I don't agree with it.

-How Strongly Political they get "a few years ago, some black robed heathens announced that gay marriage was totally fine. are you going to listen to some black robed heathens? or the eternal God who instituted marriage in the first place"…….this is a almost direct quote from a sermon a month ago, so ya know…totally Apolitical and able to reap those fun tax except status perks… this was just one thing…while the WELS is better then a lot of churches, and the church body mostly stays out of things…they don't do much to stop pastors and individual churches from becoming a propaganda branch of the political right wing…

-their internal synodical doctrines The WELS is full of internal doctrines on how things work…and the biggest one I have issue with is their doctrine of "Prayer fellowship" it basically states they WELS members are not to ever pray, or worship, and any non WELS members. the only exception is when the member themself is running the worship service, or leading the prayer. the WELS gives biblical verses that "support" this doctrine (just like the verses they use to say women can't vote in any internal church affair, or hold any religious position, I.E Pastor, Elder, President.) I have looked at these verses for a long time, and while I understand why they get those positions from those verses, I just don't agree with them at all. It all comes from a literalist (and context blind) understanding of the texts, and I just can not say in good faith that I agree with them in any way shape or form.

This all comes in tandem with the knowledge that I am going to be Excommunicated sometime this year…why? because I'm a big ol fruit. I tried for YEARS, to not be queer. I did everything, I prayed night and day, I self harmed constantly, like some kinda Augustinian monk, to purge these "fleshly lusts" from my body…for two years. I begged God to kill me almost every night…the only reason I didn't do the deed myself, was because I was afraid if I took my own life…I would end up in the fires of hell…I also didn't want my family to be heart broken…cause I love them all so much, and I just didn't want to hurt them… To say that these years left lasting scares, is a understatement. I have only recently, through the help of friends and a therapist God put in my life, have been able to live with a sliver of hope in my future. every time I get punched…or slap myself…I am instantly reminded of my self harm (I hit myself with my fists as my main source of pain). to say that I will be working on undoing this mess for years so come, is obvious, but fortunately, I see light at the end of the tunnel, and every day had been getting better. I accepted my Queerness about 9 months ago. I changed my mind, when a friend sent me some theological sources, and talked to me about it…and it took awhile, but I eventually changed my mind about how I was destined for hell for something I tried, and couldn't change. Initially…it was terrifying…what was I going to do? basically everything I ever thought was true was under question…and even after basically spending every day of these past few months in furious study…I still don't know all the answers, but I am confidant enough to say I do not think that God has any issue with queerness.

So now my life has changed, from one of intense self hatred and depression, to one of constant low boiling fearand terror…I am closeted, because my mother and father are very homophobic and transphobic, and I am terrified of what will happen when they find out…do you know what that does to somebody? to love your family so deeply, and your parents to love you deeply back…but behind every hug, is the knowledge…that they hate so vehemently, something so thoroughly ingrained in who I am…that they don't know about…it honestly sucks so much. I cantor (lead the hymns) at my church, and my church loves me for it, and I'm very popular over all with my fellow parishioners…but knowing that every smile, and "thank you so much for singing today!" or "Oh you did so well! I always love your voice"…will be wiped away when I come out of the closet…

I am planning on coming out sometime later this year…when? I'm not sure…but I know I can't keep this mask up for much longer…because while I don't self harm, and my mental health is slightly better over all…living a lie to your family because you know they will hate you…is kinda a drag on the ol brain. I've come out to two of my siblings, I have 6, so I came out to the two sisters closest to me ( I love all my siblings hugely, but these two I have just been slightly closer to) and both of them are chill, one of them made it very clear that she was here for me, and that when the time comes, she will do her best to do damage control….and the other basically went "Ya no shit Sherlock" and has been chill about it (both reactions where kinda hilarious, and I love them even more for it) Once The WELS hears of my coming out…I will immediately be called for a "Church discipline meeting" aka a inquisition with the elders and pastor, where they will try and get me to recant my "sins"…but as a famous theologian said-

"Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Holy Scriptures or by evident reason-for I can believe neither pope nor councils alone, as it is clear that they have erred repeatedly and contradicted themselves-I consider myself convicted by the testimony of Holy Scripture, which is my basis; my conscience is captive to the Word of God. Thus I cannot and will not recant, because acting against one’s conscience is neither safe nor sound. Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise. So Help Me God. Amen" -Martian Luther, Diet of worms, 1521.

-so I honestly don't think I will even bother to go to that meeting…because I don't want to go through that hurling of fire and brimstone. I honestly think I will just send a email in response…and just let them decide how to go about it. Will there be consequences for this? yes… but God is with me…amen.

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ukdamo · 2 years

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Today’s photo with the most hits: this shot of the Church if the Holy Trinity, in Ryse, Bulgaria. The photo of the interior of the church tells a different story.

At the time of its construction, Bulgaria was an Ottoman province and no Christian church could have a profile higher than a mosque, so the Christians excavated and put 80% of the church below ground, to stupendous effect.

#ryce #ruse #bulgaria #christian church #orthodox #excavated chruch #church of the holy trinity #holy trinity

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milkywayrollercoaster · 7 months

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Christian church inside the temple of Philae

Egypt

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#egypt #temple of philae #christian church

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thesavingsouls · 1 year

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What is the role of Missionaries in Morocco? I am a believer in Christ since 1993, I started to meet with other believers 1995; from 1995 till these days, I have seen missionaries came and leave, they change time after time some stay for long term some for short term, what does not change is the situation of the local church, it is the same over all these years, I have been in summer camp, trainings, Bible studies, conferences for many years, and the situation of the local church never changes. What is the situation of the local church?

#youtube #christian missionaries #christian church

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days-in-reality · 2 years

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My nanas church was celebrating pride month and she brought me some cupcakes at work🥺❤️

#pride month #lgbtq #lgbtq positivity #Christian church #happy pride 🌈#bi pride #this is super cute #i love my nan #for some context her ministers are part of the lgbtq

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