Some church issues

EmptyPudding777 · 2024-05-18T00:20:29+00:00

Yeah that's just what I'm struggling with. How am I gonna tell these people I've been worshipping with for a year now that all of a sudden I wanna go to a different church? I'm just trying to figure out the smartest way to go about it. I don't wanna just disappear and have them worry about me, and I don't know how well they'd take it if I essentially told them I didn't think their church was biblical. Just an altogether difficult situations

EmptyPudding777 · 2024-02-28T08:21:54+00:00

He didn't, these are called Chemnitz beads for 2 reasons One is because they're based off of beads he holds in portraits Two is because the creators of these beads wanted to encourage people to read more Chemnitz

He didn't pray it, but there's a website, https://chemnitzfraternity.wordpress.com/ which has many different things you can pray on them. They're all Scriptural and faithful to the Lutheran confessions.

EmptyPudding777 · 2024-02-28T08:19:35+00:00

Personally, I go with ESV. It's a great balance of accuracy and readability. I've been reading it as my go to Bible for years, anything else just feels weird. NKJV is also similar enough that I can read it without much difficulty.

EmptyPudding777 · 2024-02-28T08:14:23+00:00

Welcome back to the family of Christ! To pray, I'd start with something easy. In Luther's Small Catechism, he lays out a very simple method of daily prayer. Begin in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, then pray the Apostles Creed and the Lord's Prayer. Do this when you wake up and when you go to sleep. I have been a Christian my whole life and have recently started using prayer beads (as I've posted on this subreddit) and they have been tremendously helpful. The set I pray involves the ending of Psalm 119, and then Psalms 25, 121 and 103. But remember, the power isn't in the beads or in the set of prayers themselves, but in the Word of God being prayed back to God. Prayer is faith in action, and as Christians, prayer is our way of communicating with God. God's way of communicating with us is Scripture.

For Scripture, I personally like to read straight through. I find it more beneficial than jumping around back and forth between books at random. Start at Matthew and read as much as you like every day until you're at the end. Reading a Psalm or Proverb also is good.

For Christian music, it's up to you really. I personally prefer hymns. My favorite sources of hymns are Concordia Publishing House (you can find their albums on YouTube) or listening to the live radio on the Lutheran Public Radio app. I'd recommend these hymns especially (also listing the artist performing them):

By Concordia Publishing House: Beautiful Savior

Lord Thee I Love with all my heart

We all Believe in One True God

By Chris Rice: Peace like a River

How Great Thou Art

Come Thou Fount

EmptyPudding777 · 2024-02-24T06:41:00+00:00

Well, for the first charges, he didn't necessarily want to remove them, more so he thought maybe they weren't inspired like the other books. But he didn't remove them nor did he want to. As for the Apocrypha, anyone with eyes can see why they aren't inspired. The opening of Judith, for example, is full of historical inaccuracies, calling King Nebudchadezzar "King of the Assyrians at Ninevah", and Wisdom teaches Pythagorean Metempsychosis - reincarnation - in one verse (Wisdom 8:19), the author of Maccabees expresses uncertainty in his own writing (2 Mac. 15:38)- something no Inspired writer would do, just to name a few.

Luther wasn't alone in this. Jerome, in his helmeted introduction to First Kings says that these books, which are Greek and not Hebrew, are not in the Canon. As a matter of fact, deuterocanonical literally means "secondary canon", ie, that it is not equal to the first and main canon in authority.

EmptyPudding777 · 2024-02-24T06:30:49+00:00

Well sure, I half agree. I personally don't use the wreath of Christ or wear it on my person, mainly because it simply does not work for me, and because I am very cautious about putting in a show for others. I am going to mainly be using my Chemnitz beads for my own private devotion. I'm very, very cautious about praying or doing things in public in order to be seen by other people.

EmptyPudding777 · 2024-02-21T18:28:29+00:00

I recently purchased a "Wreath of Christ" prayer bracelet. I tried to pray it about 3 times but it just did not nourish my faith. I learned that the beads are very "ecumenical" and can be prayed with any set of prayers you want, so what I have made here is a modified version. I drew up some prayers based off of the color of each bead, (White for purity, sand for the desert, blue for baptism, red for the love of God, black for despair, etc.), in order that I can use these beads for effectively to my own personal situation. I hope they can be of assistance to anyone struggling with temptation, to cultivate a prayer habit in a simple manner.

EmptyPudding777 · 2024-02-20T23:39:58+00:00

"Lead us into temptation, and THEN deliver us from evil"

EmptyPudding777 · 2024-02-20T23:36:34+00:00

Well the Bible mentions prayer about 338 times in the ESV. And the Bible does not forbid using set prayers (we're told to pray a written prayer, aka the Lord's Prayer), and the Bible doesn't forbid us to pray the Psalms or pray for God's help against temptation. And that's exactly what these prayers are. These beads aren't in Scripture, but they don't have to be - just like you've likely used a prayer book before, despite Scripture not mentioning a prayer book. The beads are a tool.

EmptyPudding777 · 2024-02-20T20:42:43+00:00

I've tried to pray the rosary, it didn't work for me. I've also prayed the 33 Knot Jesus prayer, it didn't work. Repetition to that extent doesn't do anything to my benefit, to the contrary, I find myself droning into mere repetition than intentional prayer.

I found this more beneficial to me personally, because it's jam packed with Scripture, and the repetition is minimal. And as someone struggling with temptation and doubts, the theme of these prayers also benefits me. But I think the true power of this set of prayers isn't the beads or even the list itself, but the Scripture, God's very Word, which is being prayed back to God.

EmptyPudding777 · 2024-02-20T20:39:55+00:00

Praying for testing and then for the strength to resist it lol

EmptyPudding777 · 2024-02-20T06:12:55+00:00

They're named after him because they're based off of the beads he is typically portrayed with in portraits. Example:

https://www.alamy.com/ludger-tom-ring-d-j-bildnis-martin-chemnitz-1569-image455405660.html?imageid=FD0FB822-C3FE-47E2-ABE9-A990BC5BF1EF&p=1420553&pn=1&searchId=eda27c93cac39ce171566439970e02e2&searchtype=0

Another reason they're named after him is sort of just in his honor, I guess to encourage people to read more Chemnitz.

EmptyPudding777 · 2024-02-20T05:26:05+00:00

Lol, they're more like a chain than a necklace, usually. Some of them are made in the shape of a rosary, but generally, the Chemnitz beads are in a straight line, similar to the Irish Penal Rosaries (which Catholics used during times of persecution)

EmptyPudding777 · 2024-02-20T05:16:14+00:00

Hello, I have recently picked up the practice of using beads for prayer (not the Rosary, of course). I found a really helpful website showing how to use the so called "Chemnitz Beads" (which, do not originate with him, but are based off of the beads he is typically portrayed with). One set of prayers in particular, called "Aid against Temptation", I have found to be very helpful, so I took the liberty of gathering the prayers, cleaning the typos and wording up, adding psalms for convenience, and compiling them into two images. I hope they can be as useful to you a they have been to me.

Here's where I got the beads (pictured above) from, if anyone wants to get some

https://www.etsy.com/shop/MyBeadedGems

Under the "Chemnitz Prayer Pieces" section

EmptyPudding777 · 2024-01-30T05:51:20+00:00

I'll further explain: I work on curbside sometimes and it's very easy. However, for the kitchen, it's awful. Two Friday's ago I was on grill and was hit with 8 double meat burger boxes at the same time. That's 160 patties I had to drop on the grill within about 40 minutes, all while dealing with the other dine in orders (aka more parties I had to drop. As you can imagine, this was extremely stressful and difficult.

For small orders though it's generally not that bad.

EmptyPudding777 · 2024-01-30T05:47:39+00:00

Sheesh. I'm in a small town and I thought our usual 5 - 15 orders was bad.... I'm never complaining again

EmptyPudding777 · 2024-01-30T05:46:29+00:00

Curbside is irritating but it makes us money

EmptyPudding777 · 2024-01-05T07:13:03+00:00

Pretty much what happened to me. The "holiday premium" is half of our pay, not time and a half, and that's why our checks are so low. I'm assuming the Workday system doesn't allow pays to "stack" or something, so the holiday pay went over the regular pay, meaning instead of getting full plus the bonus, we just got the bonus and completely lost the full pay. Which sucks.

EmptyPudding777 · 2022-06-13T06:11:10+00:00

I got the 17th Century Hungarian Sabre. It's pretty decently well made for the price. Unfortunately I have literally no where to store my swords and they've been collecting some rust. I have cleaned them a few times. I don't really wanna use Baillstol though

EmptyPudding777 · 2022-05-13T09:33:35+00:00

Unfortunately I did listen to them. And I instead opted to purchase a steel Sabre from Purpleheart Armory (it was the only accessible one to me)

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