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This is an old song, that I grew up listening too, here is my Mom, and her sisters singing it about 2 years ago.
There's just too many Jonah's in the Lord's house today!
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Article by Zen Buddhist, Episcopal Priest - Almost Bishop
Kevin Thew Forrester, right, and ShokenWinecoff, Abbot of Ryumonji Zen
monastery in Iowa.
Forrester of course is the only proposed candidate for Bishop in the upper Michigan Diocese.
In the Hiawatha Land News of the Upper Peninsula he wrote an article about himself and how he is Zen Buddhist and an Episcopal Priest.
Just to wet your appetite - here are a few quotes ....
My soul-work entered a new stage on Pentecost, at Fortune Lake Lutheran Camp, when I, as a Christian, received Buddhist “lay ordination” and a new name, to go
along with my Christian name: Genpo (Japanese, for “way of universal wisdom”). I now walk the path of Christianity and Zen Buddhism.
I see now a Jesus who does not raise the bar to salvation, but lowers it so far that it disappears.
Sir, let me step in and explain .... there is no "bar" to salvation at any height .... you must simply repent of your sins, accept Christ as the only means of your salvation, and begin to lead a new life and walk away from past sins. Sir all that requires is Faith, Faith in Christ - as the Son - who bore your sins on Golgotha. Sir there is no bar to jump over - just a Cross to kneel down too.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
I love you and Buddha too!
The one and only candidate for the Bishop of Northern Michigan claims to be both Episcopal and and Buddhist.... in fact He is an ordained Buddhist.
He will be elected unless someone nominated from the floor can oppose and win.
Of course it has been common for TEC to engage in such practices ... from here
When stories like this come along, it's tempting to remind everyone of similar people and events that have turned the Episcopal Church into a laughingstock for reasons completely unrelated to homosexuality, if only so we can have them in one convenient place the next time something happens.
There's the pagan seminar in the Diocese of Eastern Michigan, Bill Melnyk the Druid priest, Maury Johnston the gay Wiccan lay activist, whirling with the sufis in Seattle, the ridiculous labyrinth trend, the Hindu mass in Los Angeles... but there are so many more that listing them all every time something like this happens threatens to become a full-time job.
I couldn't resist placing this video/song up... I think they must be singers from the left side ...
I will volunteer to answer their Question ....
Jesus Christ, the living Song of God - was the only person to walk this earth, write their Last Will and Testament, Die to put it in effect, and come back from the Dead to make sure it was carried out.
It really it is that simple, Buddha died and stayed dead .... so did Mohammad ... so did .... (insert another name here) ... Dead Dead Dead, Died and Stayed Dead...
He will be elected unless someone nominated from the floor can oppose and win.
Of course it has been common for TEC to engage in such practices ... from here
When stories like this come along, it's tempting to remind everyone of similar people and events that have turned the Episcopal Church into a laughingstock for reasons completely unrelated to homosexuality, if only so we can have them in one convenient place the next time something happens.
There's the pagan seminar in the Diocese of Eastern Michigan, Bill Melnyk the Druid priest, Maury Johnston the gay Wiccan lay activist, whirling with the sufis in Seattle, the ridiculous labyrinth trend, the Hindu mass in Los Angeles... but there are so many more that listing them all every time something like this happens threatens to become a full-time job.
I couldn't resist placing this video/song up... I think they must be singers from the left side ...
I will volunteer to answer their Question ....
Jesus Christ, the living Song of God - was the only person to walk this earth, write their Last Will and Testament, Die to put it in effect, and come back from the Dead to make sure it was carried out.
It really it is that simple, Buddha died and stayed dead .... so did Mohammad ... so did .... (insert another name here) ... Dead Dead Dead, Died and Stayed Dead...
Monday, January 26, 2009
BabyBlueOnline: Proposed Liturgies for Same Sex Blessings in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia
If you don't think TEC will doing same sex weddings soon where legal of course .... you need to think again.
It took Virginia two days to publish a liturgy for same sex blessings...
Thanks to Baby blue!
BabyBlueOnline: Proposed Liturgies for Same Sex Blessings in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia
It took Virginia two days to publish a liturgy for same sex blessings...
Thanks to Baby blue!
BabyBlueOnline: Proposed Liturgies for Same Sex Blessings in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Dio. Virginia Blesses Same Sex Unions
What I feared a few months ago is now becoming a reality it seems, as those on the conservative side leave TEC, those on the left are passing their agenda ... Virginia, a longtime southern middle of the road Episcopal Diocese ...now passes a resolution blessing same gendered relationships...
The Church of Pageantry without the Guilt
The Church of Pageantry without the Guilt
Resolved, that accordingly the 214th Annual Council of the Diocese of Virginia affirms and recognizes the inherent blessedness and holiness of all committed covenanted relationships between two adult persons, regardless of whether those relationships are between a man and a woman, a man and a man or a woman and a woman, when those relationships are (as described in Resolution D-39 of the 79th General Convention of the Episcopal Church) “characterized by fidelity, monogamy, mutual affection and respect, careful, honest communication, and the holy love which enables those in such relationships to see in each other the image of God.”
Resolved, that it is the mind of the 214th Annual Council of the Diocese of Virginia that in the Diocese of Virginia no person should be precluded from being ordained to ministry or from being selected to serve in ordained ministry in any parish or other capacity on the grounds that such person is openly living in a committed covenanted relationship with another person of the same gender, so long as the relationship is "characterized by fidelity, monogamy, mutual affection and respect, careful, honest communication, and the holy love which enables those in such relationships to see in each other the image of God" (as described in Resolution D-39 of the 79th General Convention of The Episcopal Church).
this blogger thinks that GENCON 09 in Anaheim will be a dooooooozy of a convention.Friday, January 23, 2009
PB talks in Mississippi
From Greg Griffeth
"You have been, both personally and in your office, very supportive of homosexuality in the church, especially the blessings of same-sex marriage. There are parents in this church right now, and all over the country, who are very uneasy with the prospect of explaining to their children that while the Bible condemns homosexual behavior as sinful, the Episcopal Church wants to confer its blessings on it. If you were asked, for example, to lead the youth group class here tonight, what are the precise words you would use to explain to teenagers how it is that the Bible says homosexual behavior is a sin, but our church should confer its blessings on it?"
Then there were two follow up questions ....
"So, it sounds like you're saying that for the last 2,000 years, all of Christianity has gotten this very important question completely wrong, and only in the last 30 or 40 years have a few Episcopalians gotten it right." The response was more boilerplate about interpretation.
Second follow-up was:
"But you, yourself, have authorized same-sex blessings in your diocese of Nevada..."
Schori cut me off to clarify that what she had done was to allow those parishes that wished to perform same-sex blessings, to do so. There was some mention of discernment by the congregation, but when she was through explaining, there was nothing to indicate that the sum of the situation was anything other than: If you want to do it, go for it. How that differs from "authorizing," she never explained.
"You have been, both personally and in your office, very supportive of homosexuality in the church, especially the blessings of same-sex marriage. There are parents in this church right now, and all over the country, who are very uneasy with the prospect of explaining to their children that while the Bible condemns homosexual behavior as sinful, the Episcopal Church wants to confer its blessings on it. If you were asked, for example, to lead the youth group class here tonight, what are the precise words you would use to explain to teenagers how it is that the Bible says homosexual behavior is a sin, but our church should confer its blessings on it?"
Then there were two follow up questions ....
"So, it sounds like you're saying that for the last 2,000 years, all of Christianity has gotten this very important question completely wrong, and only in the last 30 or 40 years have a few Episcopalians gotten it right." The response was more boilerplate about interpretation.
Second follow-up was:
"But you, yourself, have authorized same-sex blessings in your diocese of Nevada..."
Schori cut me off to clarify that what she had done was to allow those parishes that wished to perform same-sex blessings, to do so. There was some mention of discernment by the congregation, but when she was through explaining, there was nothing to indicate that the sum of the situation was anything other than: If you want to do it, go for it. How that differs from "authorizing," she never explained.
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