Would Jesus Discriminate?

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Greeting from Archbischop Emeritus Desmond Tutu

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1. Newsletter December 2011
(About us/News)
... to read, this book does much more than offering loopholes or excuses with regards to the Bible. Instead, the authors combine careful research with a tremendous respect for God's Word, using humor, personal ...
... at least one other offering during the week, we approached new guest preachers from diverse backgrounds and are re-evaluating our current ministries and ways to make our Sunday Services more accessible, ...
... can indeed be “home for all”. By Laurie Gaum Laurie Gaum have been appointed as our Spiritual Mentor for GHMCC and have officially started his appointment 01 September 2010. Laurie will be offering ...
... divine and post modern spirituality, reaching the newer generations, helping deal with grief, offering healing to body and soul, spending time wandering in prayer, asking questions about transgender, singing ...
5. MCC Impact August 2010 (2)
(About us/News)
... East Pike Street, PMB 930, Seattle, Washington 98122. (back to top) The Journey at Agape MCC Beginning in September, Agape MCC (Ft. Worth, Texas) will be offering a spiritual development cycle called ...
6. MCC Impact May 2010 (1)
(About us/News)
... We". Their next study is "The ME I want to BE". MCC Bournemouth (England) raised £403 in their special Easter offering for the Mother of Peace AIDS Orphanage in Zimbabwe. Church of Our Savior MCC (Boynton ...
7. MCC Impact July 2009 (2)
(About us/News)
... with Good Samaritan Fellowship MCC, a parish extension of MCCNY, in Kuala Lumpur, offering a retreat on spirituality and global justice for the members of the community there. They will be joined by Rev. ...
8. MCC Impact Pride Issue
(About us/News)
... The theme was Breaking Down Walls and Building Bridges with representatives of different congregations and faith traditions offering words of invitation to the LGBT community.   New Light MCC ...
9. MCC Impact June 2009 (2)
(About us/News)
... next, the Pastoral Care Ministry Team at MCC Richmond (Virginia) is offering an opportunity for members and friends to learn about some of the basics of caring for each other.   In conjunction ...
10. MCC Impact May 2009 (2)
(About us/News)
... was sent to state Senators. Click here to read the letter.   Team members will be offering Dwelling Together in Unity: MCC's Ecumenical and Inter-Religious Ministries at the Regions 3 and 5 Conference ...
11. MCC Impact May 2009 (1)
(About us/News)
... for their favorite Mexican recipes to prepare for a special potluck on 7 June.   In a time filled with so much stress Dr. Eric Nichols is offering weekly group meetings at MCC Key West (Florida) ...
12. MCC Impact April 2009 (2)
(About us/News)
... MCC of the Lehigh Valley (Allentown, Pennsylvania) will be offering Bible 101, focusing on the Old Testament one night and the New Testament the other.   Lesbian and Gay Estate Planning, a seminar ...
13. MCC Impact April 2009 (1)
(About us/News)
... $31,000 (USD) in cash and pledges was received as the annual miracle offering to lower the church's mortgage at All God's Children MCC (Minneapolis, Minnesota).   At least six couples will be ...
14. The Cross
(Spirituality/Sermons)
... 1 Spiritual offering a week ago, that I deeply appreciated. . . But, life took a turn this Lent, and my partner Paula had acute renal failure (she is now on her way to complete healing). Having ...
15. MCC Impact January 2009
(About us/News)
...  Rev. Gordon McCoy is hosting monthly clergy lunches in Chicago (Illinois), which are also being attended by those in nearby states.   Rev. Elder Darlene Garner is offering Board Training on ...
... Affairs. And The National Human Rights Commission, to reverse this harmful legislation and begin reparation by de-criminalising same gender relationships, offering equal protections to Nigerian ...
17. MCC Impact November 2008 (1)
(About us/News)
... (Scotland) is currently offering the CLM course.  Rev. Maxwell Reay and Gail Carmichael are leading 11 participants in Creating a Life that Matters.  They are the first church in Europe, actually ...
... MCC (Lagos, Nigeria), describing how the congregation is offering hope in the midst of oppression and standing up to societal and governmental anti-gay pressures. A picture of George Murphey, a former ...
... members as full confessing members of the URC. Triangle Project, a human rights organization offering emotional, health and empowerment services to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Intersexed ...
... of MCC's founding, local congregations around the world join together to receive a special offering to support the important work of MCC's Strategic Plan and our "Tearing Down Walls, Building Up Hope" ...
...  Together they have 35 years of experience in helping couples develop skills for life partnership. Kevin and Greg are offering the course The Intimate Partnership learning to love more ...
22. What was the sin of Sodom? (Genesis 19 and Jude 7)
(Spirituality/Would Jesus Discriminate?)
... were motivated by homosexual desire, offering them heterosexual sex instead would be nonsensical. Lot knew the men of Sodom much better than any of today’s fundamentalist preachers do. And it’s obvious ...
23. Tearing down Walls - Building up Hope
(Special Pages/General)
... margins we are blessed and we are offering multiple ways for people to access our message of liberation and inclusion.  Through church planting, church revitalization, alliances, the internet, and ...
24. Israel's Holiness Code. (Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13)
(Spirituality/Would Jesus Discriminate?)
... worshipers would often ritually touch them as part of their worship practices. Sexual intercourse was considered especially effective for gaining the goddess’s favor, because the male worshiper was offering ...
... Region 1 hosted a wonderful gathering at MCC Seattle (Washington). MCCers from Hawaii, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington participated. MCC Key West (Florida) is offering Buffering Stress to Maintain Good Health, ...
26. MCC Latin America Update
(About us/News)
... your gifts of over $23,000 (USD) from last October's "Fellowship Sunday Offerings for Latin America." Let me share the tangible accomplishments that your generous gifts have made possible ...
... in addition to their weekly tithe or offering to help reduce their budget deficit. Many US churches have encouraged members to tithe on their economic stimulus checks from the government. SunTrust Bank ...
... essential items. MCC-DC has designated a portion of their 2007 offerings towards this. Church of the Trinity MCC is also contributing to this endeavor, but a significant need for additional revenue remains. ...
29. Joseph's Dreams
(Spirituality/Sermons)
... thing, the merciful thing, by first offering to quietly divorce Mary without making a public example of her; and then by becoming her husband and Jesus' (foster? adoptive? step?) father.   I think ...
... In return she would want a love offering to help with the travel costs for herself and her two hearing dogs. Her home church is Spirit of Hope MCC (Kansas City, Missouri). Rev. Elder Don Eastman met with ...
... the folks at Wichita Falls MCC (Texas) take an extra offering for their fund which will provide the resources needed to hire a full-time director of music and worship. The goal is $36,000 (USD).   ...
32. No Place Like Home
(Spirituality/Sermons)
... gifts every year from the church's annual Women’s Bazaar, and our families just traded all our cast away stuff, it seemed. Mrs. Mae Biser and I counted the 9:45 AM Sunday School offering at the little ...
... and drug users. They have already toured the area’s nightclubs, offering free HIV testing to 20 people at each location, as well as to homeless youth. The church is also the site for the doctors ...
... filling it with supplies and furniture. Casa de Luz ICM (Monterrey, Mexico) held a retreat during Holy Week at their church, offering several activities each day, including prayer and meditation, workshops, ...
... Surrender. Rev. Jim Merritt, the Community Activist, is offering a Lenten series on his website. The sermon titles are "Time to Get Ready for Temptation," "Time to Get Ready for Sorrow," ...
... comprised of those who are hearing or deaf. MCC of the Coachella Valley (Cathedral City, California) has a Partners in Mission Fund, which is supported by offerings and the sale of various items. For the ...
37. From the MCC Board of Elders
(About us/News)
...   Connie Meadows has worked tirelessly to provide the most accurate set of statistics in regard to church attendance, membership and offerings that we may ever have had. We vowed to embrace the truth ...
38. Out in Africa 2007
(About us/News)
... various Houses. Offering succour for poor, gay and transgendered African Americans and Latinos, the underground subculture is portrayed through the desires and yearning of the fashion-obsessed contestants, ...
39. The Letter to the Hebrews
(Bible/New Testament (World English Bible))
... sins. (4) For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. (5) Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire, but you ...
40. Paul's Letter to the Ephesians
(Bible/New Testament (World English Bible))
... (2) Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance. (3) But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, ...
41. Paul's Letter to the Romans
(Bible/New Testament (World English Bible))
... God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. (17) I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God. (18) For I will not dare ...
42. The Good News According to Mark
(Bible/New Testament (World English Bible))
... offerings and sacrifices." (34) When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, "You are not far from the Kingdom of God." No one dared ask him any question after that. (35) Jesus ...
43. The Good News According to Matthew
(Bible/New Testament (World English Bible))
... !' shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, 'You fool!' shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna. (23) "If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there ...
44. The Book of Baruch
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))
... the land, from Jerusalem and brought them to Babylon. (10) And they said, "Behold, we have sent you money to buy you burnt offerings and sin offerings and incense, and to prepare you cereal offerings, ...
45. The Book of Judith
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))
... stood before the Lord and those who ministered to the Lord, had their loins dressed with sackcloth, and offered the daily burnt offerings with the vows and free gifts of the people, (15) and had ashes ...
46. Malachi
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))
... shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you," says Yahweh of Armies, "neither will I accept an offering at your hand. (11) For from the rising ...
47. Zephaniah
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))
... to shoulder. (10) From beyond the rivers of Cush, my worshipers, even the daughter of my dispersed people, will bring my offering. (11) In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in ...
48. Micah
(Bible/Old Testament (World English Bible))
... come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? (7) Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? ...
49. Consideration Series: A Celtic Spirituality
(Calendar event/Ministry)
... engaging Christian traditions and learning together. This is the purpose of our Considerations Series, offerings furthering our spiritual education and exploration. Following on from our Atonement/At Onement ...
50. Consideration Series: Pneuma/Spirit
(Calendar event/Ministry)
... This will be an interactive and mixed-media session, offering each of us the opportunity for fresh insight and inspiration. Rev. Pressley will facilitate. Venue: Church Hall (Click here for ...

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