St Michael's Ledbury

Saint Michael and All Angels is the Church of England (Anglican) Parish Church in Ledbury, Herefordshire.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

1/ 🧵🧵🧵

After Jerusalem fell, Babylon did something almost bureaucratic. It took Judean deportees, settled them in the countryside of southern Mesopotamia, and named the place after the home they could not return to. Āl-Yāhūdu. Town of Judah. Judahtown.

For a long time that whole chapter lived in the Bible and in a handful of elite names on ration lists. Then the clay started turning up.

[The “Doctor” Rblv73 @Rblv73]

Satan -How can we fool them into believing they follow the Carpenter, when they are serving us?’
Junior Demon- Make them like ‘god’!
Satan- Clever, but how?
Junior Demon-Convince them a Book is all they need‼️
Satan - Yes, pride is my favorite sin!

[Dinesh D'Souza @DineshDSouza]

A passage in 1 Samuel 13:19-22 says that since no blacksmiths existed in Israel, people went to the Philistines to sharpen their tools, and in return they paid a pim.

This word pim appears only once in the Bible. It’s used casually, on the assumption that everyone knew what it meant.

Yet for 2500 years, no one did.

The term pim was used from the 10th to the 8th centuries BC to represent a stone weight equivalent to 7.6 grams or two-thirds of a shekel.

This was the price in weight of silver to sharpen tools around the time of King David.

The weight fell out of use and people soon forgot what the term meant.

Scholars in the 18th and 19th century couldn’t figure it out either since no ancient lexicons translated the meaning of the term.

Only in the early 1900s, when archaeologists found a stone weight inscribed in ancient Hebrew with the word pim, was the mystery solved.

Since then multiple pim weights have been found.

So consider: Bible skeptics have insisted the Bible was written much, much later than the events it purports to describe.

But how would people writing centuries later, say between the 6th and 3rd centuries BC, know about a weight that had long disappeared?

They would not.

How would they know how to use a term whose meaning was not rediscovered until the 20th century?

They would not.

[St Michael's Ledbury @LedburyParish]

@BadgerMash @ronmanagernottm It was at Henbrook, a small area between Wychbold and Upton Warren. The masts were probably just in Wychbold.

[St Michael's Ledbury @LedburyParish]

@jipb35 @James_J_Marlow The irony of not stating your country!

[St Michael's Ledbury @LedburyParish]

@VaniaKamiladws @JamesKowalski88 At that time people didn’t declare authorship as is done now. That would have made the Gospel less trustworthy. That doesn’t make it anonymous. As you said it was ‘the disciple whom Jesus loved’; a contemporary identification.

[St Michael's Ledbury @LedburyParish]

@VaniaKamiladws @JamesKowalski88 False dichotomies. Jesus accepted Thomas’ declaration and worship.
Mark 10:18 doesn’t exclude Jesus’ divinity, it challenges them to recognise He is God.
The Father is greater in the economy of God. John 14 is Jesus describing the Trinity at work.

[St Michael's Ledbury @LedburyParish]

@VaniaKamiladws @JamesKowalski88 It wasn’t invented at Nicea. It was clarified and codified against the Arian heresy.

[St Michael's Ledbury @LedburyParish]

@VaniaKamiladws @JamesKowalski88 Thomas, a disciple and so one of Jesus’ earliest followers called Jesus “My Lord and my God”. See John 20:28.
The Trinity was lightly established by Jesus Himself saying “make disciples… baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” Matt 28:19

[The International Freedom Coalition @IFCoalition]

Simon Deng was nine years old when he was taken from his village in southern Sudan and handed to a family up north as a gift, and he stayed with them for about three years, working without pay and sleeping where the animals slept while nobody once used his name.

Nobody came looking for him either, so eventually he got himself out and made his own way home to a family who had never stopped searching.

He's spent the years since making sure it didn't stay a private memory, walking hundreds of miles from New York to Washington to get Americans to say the word slavery out loud about Sudan at a time when hardly anyone was willing to.

He's still saying it, so watch him and send this to someone who assumes slavery is something that finished a long time ago.

[Christian Concern @CConcern]

(1)🚨BREAKING: After a seven-year, high-profile legal battle on multiple fronts, Rev. Dr Bernard Randall, supported by the Christian Legal Centre, has secured a legal settlement with Trent College and succeeded in overturning the Church of England’s (CofE) safeguarding blacklisting of him for preaching a sermon on freedom of belief and gender identity.

Dr Randall, a former Cambridge University college chaplain, is now free to preach in church again and work in an education setting for the first time in seven years after he and his legal team successfully challenged the ban imposed on him.

Had he preached in a CofE place of worship during the past seven years, he could have faced disciplinary action.

The sanction followed a sermon he delivered as chaplain of the Derbyshire college in July 2019 in a CofE school, in a CofE chapel, precisely the kind of setting where pupils might reasonably expect to hear orthodox Christian teaching.

The sermon encouraged debate and was pastoral and rooted in Anglican belief. It came after the school had invited in the external campaign group Educate and Celebrate, which openly stated its aim to “smash heteronormativity” and to embed Queer Theory throughout the culture of the school.

Yet for delivering that sermon, Dr Randall, was treated like a criminal: forced out of the college, reported to Prevent without his knowledge, and blacklisted by the Diocese of Derby as a safeguarding risk.

Meanwhile, in the years since, Educate and Celebrate has been quietly closed down by the Charity Commission following a series of scandals, including one of its patrons committing multiple sex offences against children.

See more breaking in The Times, on our website and in this 🧵

https://t.co/2w231UP3Tj

https://t.co/YjXKjspiDO

[St Michael's Ledbury @LedburyParish]

EASTER DAY
come and celebrate!
8am BCP Holy Communion
10am Easter Communion

[St Michael's Ledbury @LedburyParish]

Two Advent Events, 1 for the morning and 1 for the afternoon.

[St Michael's Ledbury @LedburyParish]

Today in church: 3pm to 5:15pm

[St Michael's Ledbury @LedburyParish]

Harvest Thanksgiving.
A selection of displays for people’s pleasure and God’s glory.

[St Michael's Ledbury @LedburyParish]

Celebrating with Christabel, her recent
St Ethelbert award at Hereford Cathedral.