I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Via Verse of the Day - Galatians 2:20 ESV
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“There is an ascetic imperative, an utter necessity to enter into the struggle that is Christ’s own struggle. We fast because Christ in us fasts. We pray because Christ in us prays. We forgive because Christ in us forgives. We love because Christ in us loves. We give because Christ in us gives. Such a life is a sign of contradiction, a repudiation of the world’s claims to be ‘normal’ or ‘just the way things are.’ The life of Christ is the true life of the world, the purpose of all things.
People came to Christ with this question: ‘What must we do to be saved?’ Ultimately, the answer is, ‘Do Christ.’ We walk in Him and He walks in us. This is the ascetic imperative. This is the crucified life of grace, the salvation of the world.”
~Fr. Stephen Freeman, From The Ascetic Imperative - A Matter of Communion
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Satanic Strategy - Paris Reidhead
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Life in Faith
Today’s Manna in the Word:Life in Faith
The life of a Christian is a life given over to the fact that Jesus died on a cross to redeem us from sin – those willful acts of selfishness that separates us from the God of Creation.
A life in “faith” is making the decision to accept that price paid and receiving it as a gift of a new life with God.
The life of a Christian is not one of attending…
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Jumping Off Bridges
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This sermon was preached for Capital Pres Fairfax on October 1, 2023 as a part of our series through the book of Galatians. Below is a manuscript of the message I preached, along with an extended reflection and application I didn’t have time for on Sunday. A recording of this sermon will be available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
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In 2015 I worked at a…
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some people are commenting "who puts salt on their oranges" under my post and man. don't ask a mexican this. you don’t even know about tajin. you don’t even know about the sadistic mad scientist experiments that can be done to a mango. you will die.
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Christ on the Cross – Eugène Delacroix // Saint Julia – Gabriel von Max // Choreomania – Florence + the Machine
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jon's "ice and fire" parentage argument for him to be TPtwp needs to die already:
George R. R. Martin to Adria's News: I mean… Fire is love, fire is passion, fire is sexual ardor and all of these things. Ice is betrayal, ice is revenge, ice is… you know, that kind of cold inhumanity and all that stuff is being played out in the books.
No house, no human, no fucking living sentient creature is "ice". It is literally the antithesis of it. They are all encapsulated under "fire" because it represent life. House Stark with its hot temperament "the wolf blood", the ones to "endure" winter, to be the North's Warden IS a flame, an ember, a part of that fire that burns against the Ice. More so than any other andal house, less so than any valyrian one.
You would have more a leg to stand on was your argument that Jon has been touched by ice as he has died but will be brought back but I guess that doesn’t make Jon ✨️special✨️ enough for numerous characters have been brought back; Beric, Catelyn, Drogo, Patchface, etc...
The Jon-is-asoiaf clowns are also the same ones to turn the goody snowflakes/grrm gift to the world/the most oppressive uwu puppies the Starks into Ice, the literal evil of this world, and the same ones who proclaim fire is as bad as ice, two extremes the world must be delivered of when talking about Daenerys but suddenly being the product of these extremes is the solution if its Jon. The brain gymnastics are on Simone Biles's level of wild. 🤡
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half blood sybill going through a spiritual breakdown where she’s convinced she’s the second coming of christ is canon to me
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Romans 6:6 (NLT) -
We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin.
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