2024-12-11T12:08:17Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz rrtulla https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/npub12ey5hqatvdg57z0et9pdg5sjkglzmcjpxmmx90e8l7ry82542ydsdc2mlz https://m.primal.net/MsxC.jpg https://m.primal.net/MsxC.jpg https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqsqzqwcakp0dq292jglkty9lpeptetu2el8qqkt9ekk3382emxuqmqzyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3kdt3gz0 <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/9aa12af3b5b15c2006f41000e769ddf78b7d1960d54d0d894bcaae2f8d2ce036.png"> 2026-10-21T13:27:43Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqsfqvyrr0xdvy2uu4nndme2fnlum5twe60wqy33mc4hq3n5qhglu3szyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3k5stf7j Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in; (Isaiah 40:21–22)<br/> 2026-10-21T13:26:51Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqstttf65qpwerwsydrnnjx3sw0yv0g5sr7f2xgwl092pv94e9jcxkqzyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3kxzwg89 To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him? (Isaiah 40:18)<br/><br/> 2026-10-21T13:26:27Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqszeeq2pwzegsv0y64qlpmr3sge3g588tmp74r4558ffd02zc8t7cqzyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3kk5mf4l Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance? (Isaiah 40:12)<br/> 2026-10-21T13:26:04Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqsx72hw8u9tgr38ufawxc4sdnm4z3edjxe2nhgy5mfqkk5h2323p2szyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3k2e598q <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/5ffe73687944d8bd42a45efc7c3770aff72ddb8ce2ff9ba29decda445ece482c.png"> 2026-10-21T13:24:44Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqsxnl0e05xlt6gd054cfwp8zshcv49zhx3k7u29dww2sgj7rdljtlqzyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3kza59k9 ‘Christians should be taught that he who sees someone needy, but looks past him, and buys an indulgence instead, receives not the pope’s remission, but God‘s wrath” Martin Luther, 95 theses<br/> October 31, 1517 <br/># 45 2026-10-20T20:28:14Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqsvgrapn4t8pa7rfuf72ssvpq58fyyjmrptnzf7x57asl5uc4rmepczyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3kdx6xwq “let the man who would hear God speak read holy scripture.” Martin Luther. 2026-10-20T20:25:23Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqsguuxjs469fmktduuxxsvn356mdfhv0k8f5vhgcwmvl5wngpk6cjszyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3kkp7tjj “God wants to give you his Spirit only through the external Word.” Martin Luther. 2026-10-20T20:24:50Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqsr290mtdla7rclz50thq38lt0ewd66fsw5cwgj4rfwtmuj4v3refszyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3kv7rntm “The Bible teaches an enmity that goes to the bone. For the Christian there can be no compromise with the enemy, but only battle until victory. Can one imagine Moses combating Pharaoh through nine plagues and then calling it all off and moving back into Pharaoh’s palace? Can anyone imagine David and Goliath fighting to a draw and then going off to share a pint? We might as well imagine Jesus dining with the devil after his temptations in the wilderness. Pagans are happy to incorporate any new god into the pantheon, including Jesus; but Paul asks, What harmony has Christ with Belial?” 2026-10-20T12:10:13Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqs9llveg66jcn3na0suapmmxuudrcf7pkytvu0533v67lpzl8l60ugzyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3kxp0gdt “Put a McDonald’s and a Gap in every major Middle Eastern city, and terrorism will drown in a wave of Happy Meals. When liberal modernity does not simply ignore the existence of the enemy, it denies the existence of enmity that cannot be cajoled, coopted, convinced, or smilingly coerced to become an ally.” 2026-10-20T11:54:01Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqsp0yfjta77dyh90g885qt40ruc5ax4ud77jvwaku9q964e64g4fsszyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3k88zsq9 “Suddenly, and while I was occupied with far other thoughts, the Lord has plunged me into marriage.” <br/><br/>Martin Luther ~1525 2026-10-17T10:17:08Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqsxtgrhk6ymuh3mfelz2ptm9zj88evk0pf8szjhze5rlg8nep39rwczyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3kukxde8 “To be a Christian means to be refashioned in all of one’s desires, aims, attitudes, actions, from the shallowest to the deepest.” Peter Leithart 2026-10-16T12:31:29Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqswl7segz82p0m0n544ktyayepz3c89zvcyxjd54uxkz6mr2wd95kgzyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3kvzyjpl <br/> When you pray, make yourself small with the greatness of humility.<br/> When you confess sins, be honest.<br/> When you perform penances, be committed.<br/> When you eat, be restrained.<br/> When you sleep, be disciplined.<br/> When you are alone, be faithful.<br/> When you are with others, be wise.<br/> When someone teaches you to practise virtues, be attentive.<br/> When someone rebukes you, be patient.<br/> When you do a good work, reckon yourself poor.<br/> When you do something wrong, seek God’s grace immediately.<br/> When you are behaving in a conceited way, be afraid.<br/> When you are disturbed, trust God with great faith.<br/> When you work with your hands, be swift, so that you may banish evil thoughts.<br/><br/>--Mechthild of Magdeburg<br/> 2026-10-13T21:15:03Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqsv7y5hf76mf6f9up5rhkwszmlzpvq3yxg53lt47tujv4xeurpa5wqzyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3kj0c57m “Jesus is insurmountable. We might attempt to leave what he calls the “Christian era” or reject the gospel, but Jesus made such a difference in history that no one, not even the most hostile enemy of Christ, not even Anti-Christ, can escape being Christ’s.” 2026-10-13T17:55:37Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqsrrtg66gl2n2srjjgenf3ph4mtdexzptafeervcp548gd77q40kygzyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3k47uup3 Life means vulnerability, the possibility of failures and wounds: “Unless [a man] is willing to call his wounds happiness, he must choose between living frailty and tin-canned orderliness.” 2026-10-13T17:44:12Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqsd66ael49p0y9yathyw93h29zep4u6cj206tqzw6fwy4u9c4e5smszyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3kt0y7fd Jesus was dead and buried; his life was finished and done with. No rhythm of nature, no innate capacity of humanness, could return him from the grave. Only God’s grace and power, accomplishing a new act with and upon a man totally deceased, could win that victory. 2026-10-13T12:38:19Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqs0ccj6zqngn859ew5egzmnt26h0g4j53rgj6dlrwcd2tvtqk9wlqgzyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3kqnu9yl Jesus‘ death, burial and resurrection is the story of stories. Nothing else comes close. 2026-10-12T14:41:22Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqsd3k9nfkyw7jfh52yh04zumcz93jhwsd59swllpu88knvfqt4w8eczyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3kww8zwx “In God’s kingdom there is a justice which sets free and makes joyful all who stand before it: the guilty are not condemned, the fallen are picked up; nobodies are promoted; the hungry are sated; and the lost are not permitted to remain abandoned.”<br/><br/>Alan Lewis 2026-10-12T14:29:53Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqs0u3jz669h6yln7wtjhm9z0un02hs6yvdx30atkgv5ysnyy397usgzyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3k7svlu3 “Until, little by little, there came a baser, drabber age, and rage for war and love of having.”<br/><br/>Virgil 2026-10-12T13:41:49Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqsx8mnfkxlv2jhu2sxmyea7z8tsx2lcm9z96xkx6drxkll0ltprkmgzyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3k9nlp4u And you were dead in the trespasses and sins <br/>2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— <br/>3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. <br/>4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 2026-10-08T11:00:53Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqsdck36t3u96wpatne9sur09m6wjn5z55alhy8m9r7hpsnzv8vxslszyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3k98g659 There is not a single case on record in the whole history of mankind where a person came unto God in repentance and faith and was refused salvation. This our Lord specifically promised: “Whosoever comes to me I will never drive away” (John 6:37). 2026-10-07T11:36:24Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqs0kf7z9xhwdklw46ye8kqzkzzd9sqn6q73m37mszp8szptzftn84czyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3kndt95h “Thus on Easter we celebrate Christ’s Resurrection as something that happened and still happens to us. For each one of us received the gift of that new life and the power to accept it and to live by it. It is a gift which radically alters our attitude toward everything in this world, including death. It makes it possible for us joyfully to affirm: “Death is no more!” Oh, death is still there, to be sure, and we still face it and someday it will come and take us. But it is our whole faith that by His own death Christ changed the very nature of death, made it a passage—a “passover,” a “Pascha”—into the Kingdom of God, transforming the tragedy of tragedies into the ultimate victory. “Trampling down death by death,” He made us partakers of His Resurrection. This is why at the end of the Paschal Matins we say: “Christ is risen and life reigneth! Christ is risen and not one dead remains in the grave!”<br/><br/>Alexander Schmemann 2026-10-06T22:31:27Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqsp5uwh6wgegpxfgwptdcwjfy5kzuvgjehfqk4wtdq36d76ehfdpjczyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3k0mt3ly “Without God it is ill with us.”<br/><br/>-Anselm 2026-10-06T11:59:44Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqstepysudzapknxgnkc3elyrq2dq33c4u9g95rt658fm9m9unyncpqzyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3k5wlr6s &#34;Well what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn&#39;t one today.&#34;<br/><br/>Phil Connors 2026-10-06T00:38:03Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqsp7usxc29sl5ye75secvqwm3cx65axw9x3m7493w8ngptg4gtndlqzyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3k7z35p7 &#34;God has such ascendancy over his creatures that he can dispose of them at his pleasure.&#34; Calvin 2026-09-16T00:18:59Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqs9cq9xrp9jx7kedl7dlk5adnkrzmkaadduh8hje5cmhld0gfvfwuszyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3kw8xnux &#34;Mystery as God’s inscrutable way of doing business. Mystery as the way he steers the bicycle of history with his hands in his pockets. Nobody is shoved, nothing is jimmied; nothing need ever be anything but true to itself. He never even touches the handlebars! Pilate is Pilate, and Caiaphas is Caiaphas; Peter is Peter, and John is John; the soldiers are soldiers, and the women are themselves; the nails are iron, and the cross is wood. All in their own natures, all acting for themselves: the creatures of a God powerful enough not to have to use inside mystiques or outside clubs; of a God who can afford anything; of a God who can do nothing but hang there and still ride history home no-hands.&#34;<br/>(Robert Capon) 2026-09-16T00:17:28Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqs9l20mvvhdnyu5fj4p3zkr7athrvaxj4v4yrfqfs96whjwm28sq5szyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3kt95t8w &#34;Let us understand that if it is God&#39;s good pleasure to take from us the possessions He has bestowed upon us, we must be ready from one day to the next to be deprived of them. Let us not think it evil to lose in a moment everything we have been able to acquire throughout our lives. Job leads us beyond thinking such loss is evil when He says, &#39;God gave and He has taken away. But blessed be the name of the Lord.&#39; ” <br/><br/>Calvin 2026-09-15T19:20:04Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqsruzuswfqspaak4gajuuuqy3p7elpwt53hdge7q5d9wpvuljdq93gzyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3k8nuwfc &#34;When we feel some evil desire within us, some of us influenced by a wicked lust, others by something else, and others even by something else, let us be aware that it is the enemy who is working slyly in us.&#34;<br/><br/>Calvin 2026-09-15T16:24:39Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqsv6yvnsghhj8v6ufy5phf7nq9a0t4j2sy874adw65f4u8f4ynf6xqzyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3khaxmzx &#34;So when we see God, relax the bridle on the wicked, what will we say? There is only one remedy: namely, that those who bear the rod of justice constrain those who trouble the good. But we see to the contrary that they are so bound by self-interest that they allow things to continue as they are. What can we say but that the magistrates who ought to grant everybody his right allow the wicked to do the worst they can? They give us no relief, and when we expect them to do their duty they do nothing. They are like useless idols.&#34; (John Calvin) 2026-09-13T11:54:44Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqsqq675x6wgfvsaucjgnnaer4ulmhxzxkwncfnr464ege7xkemn7cgzyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3k22zgds “There is no one who does not find himself guilty when his life is examined before God”<br/><br/>John Calvin 2026-09-12T23:34:05Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqs8xvtmdduwdzkpje54hflp80x44t9fmr0wv4nmxu20p4ljpmzmazczyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3kcun28k &#34;throw off the notion that weighty books of doctrine are joy-squelching, while light devotional books are joy-producing.&#34; piper 2026-09-11T14:44:45Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqszgzy2yhudvzhgg8e5zz7gl248c3c8g0uddc8ugt8px6ymxnjpj8czyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3k5hw30l “I want even the lowliest woman to read the Gospels and the letters of Saint Paul. I want them to be translated into all languages, so that they can be read and understood by Scots and Irishmen, by Turks and Muslims. To make people understand what Christianity teaches is surely the first step to converting them. Perhaps many will mock the Scriptures, but some will take them to heart. I greatly desire that the farm-worker should sing parts of Scripture to himself as he follows his plough, that the weaver should hum them to the tune of his shuttle, that the traveller should banish the boredom of his journey by reading Bible stories. Let the conversations of all Christians flow from Scripture. For our everyday conversations generally reveal what we are.” Erasmus (15th century) 2025-01-09T13:29:06Z https://njump.cloud.vinney.xyz/nevent1qqsqm2a4deqclngz6hldwhskta5nk5dv3dupgm30kym8sd28ur7zn3gzyptyjjur4d34zncfl9v594zjz2erut0zgym0vc4lyllcvsa2j4g3kazhld5 What does man gain by all the toil <br/>at which he toils under the sun? (Ecclesiastes 1:3)<br/><br/>Answer: nothing. 2024-10-14T15:39:17Z