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July 7, 2024 Preparation for Worship Time for Gathering Opening Hymn “America the Beautiful” O beautiful for spacious skies for amber waves of grain For purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain America America God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea O beautiful for pilgrim feet whose stern impassioned stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat across the wilderness America America God mend thine ev'ry flaw Confirm thy soul in self control thy liberty in law O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife Who more than self their country loved and mercy more than life America America may God thy gold refine Till all success be nobleness and ev'ry gain divine O beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam undimmed by human tears America America God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea Prayer of Praise Song of Worship Prayers of the Church Offering and Doxology Scripture Lesson 1 Peter 2:11-17 Sermon National Christianism The Lords Supper (The bread is gluten-free and the cup is alcohol free) Prayers of Thanksgiving and the Lord's Prayer Closing Hymn “Battle Hymn of the Republic” Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored He has loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword His truth is marching on Chorus Glory glory hallelujah glory glory hallelujah Glory glory hallelujah His truth is marching on He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat O be swift my soul to answer Him be jubilant my feet Our God is marching on [Chorus] In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me As He died to make men holy let us live to make men free While God is marching on [Chorus] Benediction Fellowship • Sunday Morning Study: How We Got the Bible & Can We Trust It? | 9 AM in the Sunshine Room • Sunday Prayer | 9:30 AM in the Sunshine Room • Monday Bible Study | 12 & 6 PM in the Sanctuary and via Zoom • Wednesday Issues Hour | 11 AM in the Sunshine Room and via Zoom • F3 Ladies Luncheon: Thursday, July 11th | 12 PM at Bayside. Please sign up • All Church Indoor Barbecue: Sunday, July 14th | 4-6PM $20/person, pay Karen Boatright with cash or with a check by making checks payable to NCC to receive your ticket, please get your tickets today! • Thank you to Gloria Dominick for providing the cookies today! • The chancel flowers are given today by Gloria Dominick for Bills birthday

NAR WATCH: a monthly episode on the New Apostolic Reformation with Dr. Matthew Taylor debuts on the SWAJ feed next week. Become a premium member to get full access! https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Brad and Dan begin by discussing the fact that the trial surrounding Trump's payment to Stormy Daniels has buoyed his support among religious conservatives. They break down this confusing phenomenon through the story of Samson and Delilah, and great scholarship on the connections among hyper-masculinism, nationalism, and sex. Drawing on work by Sara Moslener and Leslie Dorrough Smith, the hosts point out how straight White men often receive approval for aggressive sexual behavior because it proves they are up for the job of protecting the nation from outside invaders and internal threats. In the second segment the hosts turn to what Brad calls opportunistic fights against anti-Semitism on the part of the American Right. While acknowledging repeatedly that anti-Semitism is an ascendant and insidious force in the USA, he argues that the right-wing politicians suddenly interested in defending American Jews are doing so not because of genuine interest in their safety or flourishing, but in order to mobilize against enemies and others they feel will win them political favor. In the final segment, the hosts discuss Trump's appeals to billionaires - and whether it's healthy for the presidency to be sold to the highest bidder. Subscribe to Miss Information: https://redcircle.com/shows/21b4b512-ceef-4289-b9fc-76f302f5bd22 Subscribe to Pure White: https://redcircle.com/shows/7ecd7912-5927-4aa2-a2af-6a50982114d2 Buy Compromising Positions by Leslie Dorrough Smith: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/compromising-positions-9780190924072 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comJustin is a writer and broadcaster who creates dialogue between Christians and non-Christians. He co-hosts the “Re-Enchanting” podcast for Seen & Unseen, and is a guest presenter for the “Maybe God” podcast. He also contributes to Premier Christianity magazine, where he used to be editor. His new book is The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God, and he has a documentary podcast series of the same name.You can listen right away in the audio player above (or on the right side of the player, click “Listen On” to add the Dishcast feed to your favorite podcast app). For two clips of our convo — on what killed the New Atheist movement, and the infinitesimal odds that life ever emerged — pop over to our YouTube page.Other topics: his parents the “hippies who found Jesus” at Oxford; his early childhood in a Christian commune; the left and right brains of faith; conversion moments; Pascal; Augustine; the evolutionary need for religion; Hitchens and me debating the meaning of life; our disdain for proselytizing; Dawkins and the “mind virus”; atheism and why people “need more than a negative to live on”; my falling away from the Church after the sex-abuse crisis; the quasi-religious movement of BLM and wokeness; its need for purity without grace; the Trump cult; evangelicals drifting from the church-state divide; Christianism; my atheist ex-boyfriend; Ayaan's conversion; Tom Holland; Game of Thrones as medieval Europe without Christianity; how Jesus changed human consciousness forever; Bart Ehrman; debating the details of the Resurrection; the #MeToo movement and the dignity of women; monogamy as a way to protect women from polygamist men; Louise Perry's Case Against Sexual Revolution; how ISIS brought back crucifixion; the chasm between Christianity and its leaders; the many messiahs of the ancient world; psychedelics; sensing my friend Patrick after his death; scientific materialism; Alex Rosenberg's The Atheist's Guide to Reality; the problem of consciousness; panpsychism; Harari on human rights; Paul Davies and the “directionality of life”; logos as logic speaking into chaos; and why “Christianity has to stay weird.”Browse the Dishcast archive for an episode you might enjoy (the first 102 are free in their entirety — subscribe to get everything else). Coming up: Isikoff and Klaidman on Trump's trials; Christian Wiman on resisting despair as a Christian, Nate Silver on the 2024 race, Jeffrey Rosen on the pursuit of happiness, George Will on Trump and conservatism, and Abigail Shrier on why the cult of therapy harms children. Please send any guest recs, dissents, and other pod comments to dish@andrewsullivan.com.

I had the privilege of talking to Dr. Nilay Saiya about his book, "The Global Politics of Jesus." 0:00 - Introduction11:00 - Dr. Saiya's introduction15:50 - Christianism and Christendom22:55 - Is prophetic witness escapist?28:40 - Power always corrupts 37:00 - Romans 1342:15 - Christianity Christens the state52:50 - Christianity co-opted 61:00 - Where do we go from here?A huge thanks to Seth White for the awesome music!Thanks to Palmtoptiger17 for the beautiful logo: https://www.instagram.com/palmtoptiger17/Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/thewayfourth/?modal=admin_todo_tourYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTd3KlRte86eG9U40ncZ4XA?view_as=subscriberInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/theway4th/ Kingdom Outpost: https://kingdomoutpost.org/My Reading List Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21940220.J_G_ElliotSpotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4VSvC0SJYwku2U0awRaNAu?si=3ad0b2fbed2e4864Interview Questions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MTzP4MIENbqXt8KJVSKGS-c6ZD1ldQouKASp4El9oz0/edit?usp=sharing The Global Politics of Jesus: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60371213-the-global-politics-of-jesus?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=hL2AeCNUmL&rank=1King's Chapel and King's Court: https://www.religion-online.org/article/the-kings-chapel-and-the-kings-court/The Upside Down Kingdom: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/653401.The_Upside_Down_Kingdom?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=pgbt1ERZkz&rank=1 One Nation Under God: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22928900-one-nation-under-god?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=ZKMrEtYwRC&rank=1 Benjamin Lay Episode: https://thefourthway.transistor.fm/episodes/c-g-positive-anarchism-and-benjamin-lay-repeat-122Theology in the Raw Interview: https://theologyintheraw.com/podcast/the-global-politics-of-jesus-dr-nilay-saiya/ Thanks to our monthly supporters Laverne Miller Jesse Killion ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Getting it right, moving from "Christianism" to Christianity, and the synchrony bewteen Heaven and Earth.

In this episode of The Tent Making Christianity Podcast, the team answers the question "Why isn't Christianity called Christianism?". 

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comJon is the chief national correspondent for Yahoo News and the host of “The Long Game” podcast. His first book was Camelot's End: Kennedy v Carter and the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party, and his new book is Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Failed a Generation. You can also follow Jon's writing on his substack, Border-Stalkers, and on his website, jonwardwrites.org.For two clips of our convo — on the joys of being evangelical Christian, and the sexual struggles of male evangelicals — pop over to our YouTube page. Other topics: Jon growing up in the Jesus Movement in the '70s and '80s; speaking in tongues; the insecurity of evangelicals toward mainstream culture; Catholic hymns vs the music of evangelicals; Catholicism as anti-subjective and anti-emotional compared to evangelicalism; when the Southern Baptist Convention tolerated abortion; the evangelical and Catholic alliance after Roe v. Wade; Paul Weyrich; Reinhold Niebuhr; Frederick Buechner; structural sin; Calvinism and predestination; Saint Francis; the indifference of Jesus toward gender roles; same-sex marriage and the Mormon settlement over it; Garry Wills' Constantine's Sword; Kevin Hasson's The Right to Be Wrong; how Christians should embrace political loss; Christianism and Trump; and the crosses wheeled out on January 6.Heads up that the Dish is taking Holy Week off as our spring break. See you back on the pod the Friday after the Good one. Happy Easter and Passover!

In this episode, Doug Stuart speaks with Nilay Saiya, author of The Global Politics of Jesus: A Christian Case for Church-State Separation. They discuss the two primary ways Christians approach politics and what those errors are. Nilay discusses these approaches in juxtaposition to so-called "Christian Nationalism." He posits a third approach which he believes is aligned with historic Two Kingdoms theology and borrows from Catholic social teaching. He called this approach, Prophetic Witness. Nilay Saiya is assistant professor of public policy and global affairs at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research concerns the influence of religion on global politics. He is author of the book Weapon of Peace: How Religious Liberty Combats Terrorism (2018). He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame.   Main Points of Discussion: 00:00    Introduction 04:19    How is Christian nationalism distinct from Christians having a voice in governance? 05:56    Why can't much political theology cannot be reconciled with the teachings of Christ? 09:53    Is there a proper way to "take America back for God?" 14:00    How does the church see itself? Is it the new (nation) Israel? 15:43    Living as strangers and exiles; Christianism; political detachment 19:43    Two kingdoms theology - kingdom of the world and of the cross 26:46    Third approach: prophetic witness and faithful presence 29:07    The value of Catholic social teaching 29:45    When confusing prophetic witness with political activism (dual citizenship) 32:49    Godless people elected to power and the Christian response 36:37    Do we need elected officials who will listen to Christians? 39:40    Are the Sojourners Christian nationalists but on the left? 42:50    How do we live out the prophetic witness? 44:28    Closing thoughts   Additional Resources: - https://sites.google.com/site/nilayjsaiya/home?authuser=0  - The Global Politics of Jesus: A Christian Case for Church-State Separation: https://amzn.to/3ZLxLrd  Audio Production by Podsworth Media - https://podsworth.com 

Lexman interviews Chris Duffin about his experiences with Christianity, criminality and piggeries. Chris talks about how growing up in a religious Christian household shaped his outlook on life and what challenges he has encountered as a result. Lexman and Chris manage to have some great discussion about religion, criminality and the history of pork production.

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maK and Rev welcome Rev's good friend and former coworker John Wesley Thomas to the pod. The three discuss racism, clothed as Christianism and John explains the concept of white body supremacy. Check it out! Subscribe, Rate, Review and SHARE!!! Connect with us on IG @thenile.est1981 or via email thenile.est1981@gmail.com.

“The problem I have with all of the “conservative” Christian angst against the cancel culture is that it has been conservative Christians who — especially beginning in the 1970s — were constantly leading the charge to “boycot” [sic] this or that product because said product was a sponsor of tv shows like Soap, or All in the Family, or anything else that the conservative Christians objected to. In other words, y'all are the prototype cancelers. It's just more than a little disengenous [sic] that now that you're feeling the heat from your own fire, you're crying about it.” — "MARTIN LUTHER" WRITING TO GOTTESBLOG The above quote was in response to my post called “Cancel Culture and the Cross.” It amuses me for several reasons, and has given me fodder for writing more. So thank you, “Boomer Luther.” I love how boomers are still living in the glory days of the 1960s and 70s, albeit Depends have replaced once ubiquitous bell bottoms, and Viagra has largely supplanted LSD. It is as though life reached its zenith at Woodstock, and boomers are still having flashbacks from the brown acid, even as their glory days of ruling the youth culture were to march on a few more years into the 1970s before sputtering and amounting to nothing. So much for the “Age of Aquarius”. Look at what Martin Boomer considers a cultural triumph: the subversive TV shows of five decades ago: “Soap” and “All in the Family.” And this is why we say, “OK, boomer.” “Soap”? I do remember the program, but barely. I was a child. It was back when the Left became enamored with deviant sexuality and having the sound of a toilet flushing on TV. So stunning. So brave. And really, “Martin Luther”? “Soap”? Does anybody under the age of 75 have any of these shows in his VHS collection? I guess that's what they like to call “ground breaking.” Sigh. OK, boomer. And let's talk about “All in the Family,” shall we? I actually watched this one as a kid. It was a celebration of degeneracy, anti-Christianism, and Marxism. It was the brainchild of Norman Lear, a political leftist and social revolutionary. The message of the show is personified by the Atheist and leftist character known by his nickname "Meathead”, played by fellow leftist revolutionary Rob Reiner. The villain of the series was Archie Bunker, who represents traditional American values (and of course is a conservative white Protestant). On the show, Bunker is a slack-jawed, mouth-breathing buffoon, and an irrational and stupid bigot, while, of course, the counter-cultural characters are all intelligent, suave, sophisticated and educated. They always come out ahead while Bunker looks like a fool. Yawn. And of course, Christianity is mocked while Marxism, sexual promiscuity and deviancy, and cultural degeneracy are celebrated. The free enterprise system is panned as well. Watching reruns of the program from our perspective today shows the ham-handed agitprop cleverly using a laugh-track to cue and program the home audience as to whom they are supposed to identify with, and to get them mindlessly seal-clapping along at just the right time, like unto Pavlov's slobbering dogs. Interestingly, Lear and Reiner were old-school leftists in many ways, champions of the Declaration of Independence (which today has a so-called trigger warning for calling American Indians “savages” and not acknowledging black slaves). Lear and Meathead are advocates of free speech - at least when it suits them. I have yet to hear Norman Lear (who is still alive) or Rob “OK Boomer” Reiner utter a peep today about cancel culture and the assaults on free speech from their political allies. I guess that they're fine with cancel culture as long as it goes from left to right. Moreover, another fact that went down the Boomer Memory Hole is that “All in the Family” and its spinoff “The Jeffersons” included the use of the uncensored N-word. And yet, surprise of surprises, nobody is calling for Norman Lear and Meathead to apologize, to grovel, to be placed on the stools of repentance, or to be subjected to a “struggle session.” They have escaped "cancel culture.” It's a free pass, because they're confessors of the orthodox cultural faith: the unholy trinity of Atheism, Marxism, and Degeneracy, and as such, the Orwellian double-standard is a tenet of their creed. As for refusing to patronize sponsors of such programs and making use of boycotts - that is not cancel culture. Everybody does this. If the local proprietor of a coffee shop called your mother an ugly name or made fun of your children, you'd simply opt to go somewhere else to caffeinate yourself. Why wouldn't you? What kind of a cad would continue to put money in the coffers of someone who mocks his family? Maybe your other relatives and friends would opt out as well. This is just normal human behavior. If you are a police officer, and the local bakery decided to honor BLM, maybe you would decide to frequent someplace else. If your barber has Trump posters on the wall, and you voted for Joe Biden, maybe you would find a new barber - or not. As Ludwig von Mises pointed out: in a free market, the consumer is the captain of the economic ship. We all make choices based on our preferences. What we are seeing today is far more sinister. It is destructive to societal cohesion and liberty. We're seeing threats and intimidation, doxing, and people surrounding homes and calling for violence. We're seeing deplatforming and those with power controlling the narrative. We're seeing free speech taken away on college campuses - even those that are government property, where the First Amendment is supposed to be the law of the land. We're seeing the Orwellian Memory Hole and the active use of Soviet-style propaganda in academia, government, and the workplace. We're seeing states, here and around the world, seeking to use the force of law to censor and enforce compliance. So where is the outrage from Lear and Meathead? And of course, they say nothing about any of this inhumane use of compulsion. Boomers, who used to put “Question Authority” stickers on their bumpers, have become like Rolf from “The Sound of Music,” using whatever authoritarian means they can muster to quash dissent and to adopt Archie Bunker's frequent command to his wife: “Stifle.” Meathead has now become Archie. The hoary-headed hippies now want respect as “elder statesmen” - when their old mantra “Never trust anyone over thirty” has come full circle, as their old revolutionary progressivism has led to a dismissal of any claims that they might have had as leaders. We all see their double-standard and their hypocrisy, and they are well-beyond their own spoilage date. “Soap” came to an end in 1981. “All in the Family” fizzled out in 1979. The 1980s led the country in a different direction, one that sought value in continuity and tradition, one that valued free markets precisely because it helps everyone: especially the poor and minorities. Ironically, one of the spinoffs of “All in the Family” was “The Jeffersons,” a sitcom featuring a black family that was upwardly mobile thanks to the free-enterprise system that Norman Lear and Meathead tried so hard to denigrate and destroy. By the end of the 1980s, we saw Marxism for what it really was: corrupt oppression. We saw the peoples of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe reject Norman Lear and Meathead and turn again to tradition, religion, and advocacy of markets that were mocked in the ridiculous character of Archie Bunker. We saw the Gulag camps emptied. We saw churches spring up. We saw the Berlin Wall tumble, as people were once again free to travel, to trade, and to worship. We saw Norman Lear and Meathead's Utopia crumble, even as Neil Young cashed in by singing “Rockin' in the Free World” in 1989, making a lot of money celebrating the triumph of Archie Bunker's values and the fall of World Meatheadism. Of course, the leftist counter-culture has always been “Socialism for Thee, but Free Enterprise for Me.” multimillionaire John Lennon sang the Communist paean “Imagine” - “Imagine no possessions” while driving a Rolls Royce and living a life as opulent as any conservative politician or huckster TV preacher. Gazillionaire George Harrison sat in the lotus position singing about the superiority of the spiritual to the material, all the while living in mansions and singing a protest song that could accurately be titled “Taxation is Theft.” So much for all the “fair share” rhetoric from the Left. Then again, Lear and Meathead aren't exactly living hand to mouth in a commune either. But the real target isn't merely free enterprise or bourgeois culture: it's really Christianity itself. To Hollywood, traditional values, conservatism, and conformity to the reality of natural law is all represented by the cross, and it is loathsome to our self-proclaimed and anointed elites. The cultural revolutionaries sew chaos, and we Christians are foolish not to recognize it and instead to participate in it, allowing ourselves to sink generationally into the quicksand one inch at a time, selling out our children and grandchildren with each and every guffaw we join ourselves to on the phony laugh-track. We don't need to control the behavior of others. Rather we need to opt out, refuse to comply, turn off the TV, stay away from the movies designed to subvert our own children, and spend our money in our own communities and among our own people. It is they, not we, who are the people of the Gulag and the Guillotine. The Gospel is spread peacefully and voluntarily by the Word, not by threats and cancellation, not by fear and intimidation. We offer the world a different kind of cancellation: the cancellation of the debt of sin, which ultimately cancels death.

This episode (very) briefly covers Afghanistan's history  and how we arrived at this place in time.  We also look at some polling data on American Evangelicals and their hospitality toward refugees, examine the difference between  Christianism vs. Christianity,  touch on the Good Samaritan and a few other lessons learned in Bible Belt Sunday school. 

Nietzsche's ubermensch, eternal recurrence, anti-Christianism. Enjoy the analysis and commentary on "Thus Spake Zarathustra." Plus, honoring Jerry Rubin! This episode gives you all the content you want in a way that will make some of you (the ones who don't know what they're talking about) mad. Seriously, Nietzsche is not a conservative.Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GodwardOdysee: https://odysee.com/@Godward:5?r=FFgMAmWyyzJ2b8HrstejXYp7UaTdV9ep

Many are treating Christianity as the enemy of the state. What exactly is Christianism? Does it exist? Can we get rid of it? When do we stop listening to the government? These are some of the questions we answer. Please LIKE, SHARE, SUBSCRIBE, and FOLLOW.

Many are treating Christianity as the enemy of the state. What exactly is Christianism? Does it exist? Can we get rid of it? When do we stop listening to the government? These are some of the questions we answer. Please LIKE, SHARE, SUBSCRIBE, and FOLLOW.

Pastor Ken Ortize continues his series, What's The World Coming To, with a message called, “Anti-Christianism“ out of 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4.

(Chinese) Highlights: Supreme Master Ching Hai gives a lecture about the origins, teachings and practicing methods of Hinduism, Christianism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Yi Guan Tao and other major religions, and explains that the purpose of the Guan Yin Method is to help us truly know the greatness of the Master we worship and thus have more faith in our own religions. So, the Guan Yin Method doesn’t belong to any religion. We can believe in and practice any religion, and don’t have to change our religion, life style ...

The events as they are unfolding in Portland, Seattle, BLM, and the radical left clearly show that this movement is not about racial issues at all, but systematic destruction of Christian values. Hear the spirit behind the protesters.

First episode in English! A very special one, because María is not going to talk as an expert, but she is going to tell us all her testimony of conversion.

Politicians talk about faith, pharmacists and Noah’s Ark builders fight for religious freedom, and Skye explains how “Christianism” could kill the evangelical movement. (And Phil gets to say “Bebbington’s Quadrilateral” one more time!) (Audio Only)

The beginning of this afternoon's lecture is a stunning, wisdom-packed reflection on the analysis of our own world view. Alan starts by giving an overview of some of the predominant world views, from the individual vantage points of physics, biology, Abrahamic religions (Christianism, Judaism, Islam), and contemplative practices, ultimately culminating in an explanation of the Buddhist view. He gives a brief but very precise reflection on Karma, Theravada, and Mahayana views, and then proposes a profound hypothesis, probably the most profound hypothesis that we can test personally: In Buddhism it has been observed throught millenia that as we orient ourselves with reality, with genuine happiness and liberation/enlightenment of both ourselves and others, reality rises up to help out. In other words, reality seems to align itself so that the conditions necessary for finding genuine happiness (a.k.a: finding reality as it is) present themselves to us when our motivation is clear and we develop a sincere and profound yearning for this (as opposed to having yearning for hedonic, materialist success and pleasure where we literally are dominated mostly by luck, chance and doing our best).With the very real posibility of testing this hypothesis in our lifes by using simple observation, we glide into a profound Loving Kindness practice, yearning to achieve our most meaningful aspirations. Post-practice, we have a few very interesting questions on the topics of "getting real" and what that means on all stages (from deep sleep to waking life), non conceptuality, and the relationship between Shamatha practice and sleep.I took this photo right as we were exiting the teaching hall. I know we are not in Awareness of Awareness yet but hey, by now you probably know that I can't resist amazing sunsets!