For eight days in Lent (6 March 1522), beginning on Invocavit Sunday, 9 March, Luther preached eight sermons, which became known as the “Invocavit Sermons”. In these sermons, he hammered home the primacy of core Christian values such as love, patience, charity, and freedom, and reminded the citizens to trust God’s word rather than violence to bring about necessary change.
Wikipedia, Martin Luther,, Return to Wittenberg and Peasants’ War: 1522–1525 (Edited to add date)
Author: Matt
What is your heresy?
Do you disagree too?
Chjose your own heresy: Empathy – the eighth deadly sin?
As you may recall, the eight classic sins are: pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, sloth, and empathy.
I don’t remember that last one. Maybe I wasn’t paying attention that day.
According to author Joe Rigney, empathy is a sin and a counterfeit version of compassion. I’m not linking to the book because why should I? That’s an odd line to take, yet it allows Joe and others like him to say that verses like “Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.” (Romans 12:15) is not a direction towards being empathic.
If you want to justify your behaviours that Jesus and the rest of the Bible characters would probably have a problem with, I guess you could choose this heresy. I can’t recommend it, but who am I?
Hit me with your most heretical shower thought
Shall we change the 14th of February?
While society and capatlism tries to force us all to spend money on required, optional, enforced, voluntarily given tokens to prove our love, let us rebel and start the cult of inviting people you care about over for snacks and a silly movie.
Which is more important for Christians?
- The Christianisation of an institution
- The presence of Christians within the institution
It’s Heresy to Read the Bible Literally (according to retired Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong).
Follow me and let’s see if I can’t find something you disagree with.
Be the resident alien
To be a Christian is to deny yourself and follow Christ, so Christianity rubs against every earthly culture. It is meant to. You should be a decent, good-mannered citizen, but you should never feel at home. You are to be a resident alien.
The Christian Case for Liberalism, Tim Farron
If you are not accumulating more questions than answers, you may be doing heresy wrong
If you came here looking for answers, I’ve got some bad news for you
Facts – does your heresy have them?
You beautiful heretic, I like the way you think.
The misinformation situation is worse than you think
Jesus told his followers to pay their taxes
Tax avoidance is a sin, folks.
(Does that make D. Trump a sinner?)
Commit to facts and truth
In an era of “post-truth”, this is a vital heresy.
Peddlers of oppression fear an informed population.
Jesus didn’t have a job
Just saying…
Not assisting someone is a sin, I think
Jesus taught that if you failed to help the least of the people, you failed to help him.
This will probably upset the religious right, so don’t tell them that feeding the poor and housing the homeless is a biblical responsibility. (Don’t even get started on visiting people in prison)
Jesus was a refugee
His parents fled their country for fear of the authorities killing their child.
It turns out that Christmas is for everyone not just Christian nationalists
I wasn’t original after all
I recently posted a heresy shower thought that Jesus was a refugee. It turns out, a preacher got there first. Who’d’ve thunk it?
We can see this through the different characters in the story and some of the imagery; a pregnant young woman, a husband scared of scandal, a baby born in the manger, Magi from the East who have to risk speaking to Herod in order to ascertain the birth of a new King, shepherds in the fields struggling to make ends meet and a family at risk who have to flee and take refuge in Egypt. All of these characters in their own circumstance, were vulnerable.
Jesus the migrant: a Christmas journey, Rev Dr Israel Oluwole Olofinjana