KEITH GILES: I feel like we need another Copernican Paradigm Shift in today's Christianity if we hope to move beyond an Earth-centric theology that allows for a more realistic understanding of God and our Universe.
Justin Bond: Yeshua asked how could we understand spiritual things if we don't understand the natural. Jacob, Jacob's physical descendents, The Land, United Kingdom/Political Entity under the rule of David and Solomon, The 10 Northern Tribes, The Jews who returned from the Babylonian Exile, Judaism as a whole, and the modern political state and its citizens can all be described as physical or legal Israel. "Kingdom Israel" is made up of both physical (Legal) and non-physical (Spiritual) Israelites who are believers in Messiah Yeshua. It's long overdue for us as believers to start trying to understand these things in the here and now for a foretaste of the future.
Living behind the bricks, preparing heads for more
Pressure and disorder
Attack to our surrender's leaving trace in the night
Watching traffic lights and expecting much more
Pressure and disorder
We are superstars and we're living in a dark
We didn't sleep for a very long time
Don't wake us up
Don't wake us up
"Whoever wins shall be Clothed in White and I will not blot out his name from The Book of Life and I shall confess his name before My Father and before His Angels" (Apocalypse 3:5 Multilingual).
Latin: Manus enim vestrae pollutae sunt sanguine, et digiti vestri iniquitate; labia vestra locuta sunt mendacium, et lingua vestra iniquitatem fatur.
English Translation from Isaiah 59:3: For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters wickedness.
"Angelic Sons of the Deities ['Angels who did not keep their own Domain, but abandoned their proper Home' (Jude 1:6)] saw that the Human Daughters of Blood were Good and they took for themselves Wives of all which they chose" (Genesis 6:2). They birthed Giant Fallen Demons (Genesis 6:4). 😈 Happy Valentine's Day.
Leonard Mary: The Mass is a taste of Heaven on earth.
Jonathan Sacks zt'l: Even when G-d assures us that something will happen, it will not happen without our effort. A Divine promise is not a substitute for human responsibility. To the contrary, it is a call to responsibility.
NEAL I. BOROVITZ: The message of the birkat hamazon (Grace after Meals) is to be grateful for what we have and to commit ourselves to be God's agents in the world. When we live each day being just a little more decent, with just one additional sand-like grain of integrity, we should be both grateful and satisfied. Each of us should learn to say: "Today, I lived the best I could and I am grateful that I did. Tomorrow is another opportunity to add more grains of sand by expressing gratitude to God in both word and deed."
Eric Cepin: As people join us, we invite them into the larger family, regardless of where they are on their journey toward Jesus. That's the picture we have.
Irish-American Kevin Lawrence (John) Creedem asked a tall, youthful African-American Neighbor who was walking by just in time to assist us in lifting the Heavy Rim and he obliged à la Simon of Cyrene. 🏀🪜👼👼🏿👼🏾
GRAHAM OSBORNE: there is not a word of Scripture attesting to such a pre-tribulation rapture. On the other hand there are multiple places that explicitly teach the exact opposite: that the tribulation will come first – before Jesus returns to rapture believers at the end of time – and that Christians alive at this time will indeed experience this tribulation (CCC 675-676).
BRANT PITRE: Finally, if Mary is the Queen Mother of Jesus’ Kingdom, then she is certainly no ordinary woman. She is, quite literally, the most powerful woman in the universe. She is the true Queen of Heaven.
And Mary is still alive in heaven. As Queen Mother, Mary sits at Jesus’ right hand. And, like King Solomon, Jesus will not refuse her requests.
That’s why, since ancient times, Christians have asked Mary to pray for them.
"Come out you Soldiers of Rome and look you Daughters of Jerusalem. Look on The Bridegroom King Yeshua wearing a Crown of thorns, the many Crowns with which His Queen Mother Miriam crowned Him on the Day of His Wedding, the Day His pierced heart overflowed with Water and Blood" (Based on New International Version, Song of Solomon 3:11).
DREW CHRISTIANSEN: Orthodox Judaism reminds Christians of our shared vocation to witness to the Holy One in a secular world. Irving Greenberg reminds us that witness to the Holy One of Israel is all the more necessary "in an era when God is totally hidden." In time, he hopes, the common witness will lead to appreciation of "a distinctive revelation and unique relationship and interactions with God in the other community." In that day, the covenantal partnership will have come to maturity.
Max Thurian: If the celibate Christian possesses the priestly vocation, the possibility and the privilege of devoting his entire self to the service of other people by giving them all his time and attention, for him the celibate life also means that he must seek to please the Lord in prayer and contemplation. Having chosen the better part, he must do so in such a way that this is not taken from him by the cares of the world. His own celibacy not only signifies what he is, but demands that he be in a state of continual dependence on God.