Would Jesus Discriminate?

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Reverend Pressley Sutherland's column for thoughts and devotions.

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1. GHMCC is entering transitioning period (About us/News) ... transition will be a point for discussion at this meeting. Pressley and the church council will remain behind after the service tonight, should there be anyone who would like to chat. It is a while ... 2. JWG Reject the Proposed Appointment of Homophobic Journalist Jon Qwelane as an Ambassador (About us/News) ... is utterly disgraceful. The anti-homosexuality bill currently under discussion in that country is an entirely oppressive piece of legislation, not only does it seek to impose draconian punishments on people ... 3. MCC Impact June 2009 (2) (About us/News) ... the positive messages for God's Rainbow people. Q-Spirit, a weekly discussion group at Eternal Joy MCC (Dayton, Ohio), digs deep into matters of life and faith and how being LGBT fits into the ... 4. MCC Impact May 2009 (2) (About us/News) ... partners with Nebraska AIDS Project to prepare and serve a monthly lunch to their 45 clients. HIV - 25 Years Later will be a brown bag lunch discussion at MCC Toronto (Canada). This span ... 5. MCC Impact April 2009 (2) (About us/News) ... to top) Would Jesus Discriminate? The PFLAG Interfaith Coalition of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is hosting a discussion about WJD on most Thursdays this month and next. They want to answer ... 6. MCC Impact April 2009 (1) (About us/News) ... Christ, Superstar. His friends from MCC in the Valley (North Hollywood, California) will be attending the 2 May performance. Mitchell Gold led a discussion about his book Crisis: 40 Stories ... 7. Pride Fringe Festival (About us/News) ... of the Pride Fringe Festival Cabaret evening & panel discussion Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 19h00 Delft Community Hall Seminar series: MSM sexual health A focus on Cape Town’s PrEP (Pre-Exposure ... 8. MCC Impact January 2009 (About us/News) ... to people undergoing difficult times. Exodus MCC (Abilene, Texas) is having a Gender Identity workshop, dinner, and discussion on 25 January. Planning Ahead! The choir of Harvest ... 9. MCC Impact November 2008 (2) (About us/News) ... MCC Boston (Massachusetts) where folks enjoy a vegetarian pasta meal and time of learning and discussion with friends. In November Kevin Light is presenting a course at Good Hope MCC (Cape Town, ... 10. MCC Impact (About us/News) ... ever feel Jesus has been kidnapped by the Christian Right? Holy Covenant MCC (Brookfield, Illinois) is participating in a 12 week discussion on Saving Jesus, which includes writings of biblical scholars ... 11. NO! To Homophobic Rhetoric and Hate Speech by Uniting Reformed Church SA (About us/News) ... discussion on homosexuality at the General Synod of the Uniting Reformed Church in Hammanskraal. We have familiarized ourselves with the values expressed by the Confession of Belhar and have concluded ... 12. Reach: October 2008 Observances (About us/News) ... civil awareness day that encourages and supports the coming out discussion and acknowledgement of the journeys of LGBTQI individuals. The first National Coming Out Day was held on October 11, ... 13. Around The Fellowship Newsletter Vol. I (About us/News) ... coordinated the event. The Agape Angyls, the youth group at Agape MCC (Ft. Worth, Texas) hosted a showing of For the Bible Tells Me So followed by a discussion time. At Jesus MCC (Indianapolis, Indiana) ... 14. Special Screening "For the Bible Tells Me So" (About us/News) ... a panel discussion organised by Good Hope MCC. Sponsored tickets are available, please e-mail welcome@goodhopemcc.org See here fore more info about the movie and the film festival. ... 15. No fems? No fairies? (1 Corinthians 6:9-10 and 1 Timothy 1:10) (Spirituality/Would Jesus Discriminate?) ... lesbians. Discussion: Another passage of Scripture sometimes used against gay people is 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, which reads as follows in the King James Version: Know ye not that the unrighteous ... 16. What was the sin of Sodom? (Genesis 19 and Jude 7) (Spirituality/Would Jesus Discriminate?) ... Gomorrah with homosexuality until Philo in the first century AD and not with any measure of consistency until the sixth century. For a good discussion of this see Greenberg, page 201, footnote 91. Note ... 17. Israel's Holiness Code. (Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13) (Spirituality/Would Jesus Discriminate?) ... life. Discussion These two verses in Leviticus read as follows in the King James Version: Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind; it is an abomination. (Leviticus 18:22) If ... 18. Idol Worship and Rejection of God. (Romans 1:21-28) (Spirituality/Would Jesus Discriminate?) ... Romans, we simply ask you to apply this same time-honored, common-sense approach. Discussion Romans 1 may seem daunting when first approached because it is written in a rhetorical style most modern ... 19. David loved Jonathan more than women. (II Samuel 1:26) (Spirituality/Would Jesus Discriminate?) ... sex which, therefore, had no application to a deep romantic relationship between two men who loved and served the God of Israel. (See Israel's Holiness Code for a complete discussion.) If someone had ... 20. The early church welcomed a gay man. (Acts 8:26-40) (Spirituality/Would Jesus Discriminate?) ... on the same basis as other people his faith in Jesus Christ. Discussion This story challenges the grasshopper mentality, a phrase that comes from an old joke about a grasshopper in a bar. (If ...
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Today's Scripture

Friday, 3rd September 2010

God told Abram: 'Leave your country, your family, and your father's home for a land that I will show you. - I'll make you a great nation and bless you. I'll make you famous; you'll be a blessing. I'll bless those who bless you; those who curse you I'll curse. All the families of the Earth will be blessed through you.' Genesis 12:1-3 The Message [MSG]