social justice
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Spiritual Reset: God’s Preferential Love for the Poor and the Role of Justice in a Real Church
Principle If your faith doesn’t touch the poor, it’s not faith — it’s theater. God has always sided with the crushed, the overlooked, and the left-behind. From Egypt to Calvary, His heart beats on the underside of empire. When Jesus said “Blessed are the poor,” He wasn’t being poetic — He was announcing Heaven’s policy. Continue reading
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Your Lord and Mammon
There’s a lie that’s been whispered from pulpits, printed in devotionals, and preached in megachurch auditoriums across America — that you can serve both God and Mammon if you just smile while doing it. That you can be rich and righteous, powerful and pure, secure and surrendered. But Christ never said that. He said the Continue reading
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Justified Racism?
Hey, know what would be fun? Let’s have a discussion on racism that is altruistic. A person of color had commented on their page that they held the nation in contempt and listed reasons for it. I concurred with what they said until I read one of their bullet points concerning the 3rd stanza of Continue reading
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Revolutionary Papers: April 20, 2019
On the material plane and spirit. Μακάριοι οἱ πτωχοὶ τῷ πνεύματι , Ὅτιαὐτῶν ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν . Blessed are the poor in the spirit for theirs is the kingdom of the heavens. Almost all translations except for the Berean render the first part of this verse, “Blessed are the poor in Spirit…”. This is due to the fact that no matter how skilled you are Continue reading
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Revolutionary Papers: April 19, 2019
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:3 Part 1. During my study time over the years I am ashamed to say that I never bothered to exegete the Beatitudes. I knew them and so due to that and their apparent simplicity, I never bothered to study them Continue reading
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Feed others not yourself, Tubby McChurchian.
No, this is not a warning to those engaged in the character assassination of others while deeply embedded in the sin of gluttony that comes from too much fried chicken. I wouldn’t lower myself to that. Who am I kidding, I totally would. But I’m not. Right now. This is about our excess and selfishness Continue reading
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Success in ministry! (or the Ministry of the Shivering Sheep, Inc.)
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Continue reading
The People’s Revival 