Gay is an adjective, not a life style.

I will be honest, I don’t know a lot about Puristanism. Although, I do suggest that you should not give up for finding like minded people. There are billions of people on this planet and I promise there is at least one other person out there that is going through the same thing as you. BUT if there isn’t, be the change you want to see and lead your own life to how you want to see it!

- Anonymous said:

Lately I find myself more and more interested in Puritanism. What are my chances of finding a Puritan-esque Christian community which also accepts that I'm gay?

insanitay2:

Westboro Equality House:
Aaron Jackson Paints Rainbow Home Across from Anti-Gay Church

The Westboro Baptist Church is about to get a big surprise in the form of a new neighbor who plans to give the notoriously anti-gay group a taste of its own medicine.

Aaron Jackson, one of the founders of Planting Peace, a multi-pronged charity that has in the past concentrated on rainforest conservation, opening orphanages, and de-worming programs, bough a house that sits directly across from the church’s compound six months ago. On Tuesday, March 19, he and a team of volunteers are painting it to match the gay pride flag.

The project — which the nonprofit is calling the “Equality House” — is the first in a new campaign Planting Peace plans to wage against the group. Westboro is known for its intimidating tactics of protesting (or threatening to protest) what they refer to as America’s pro-gay, anti-God agenda, in close proximity to pride parades, soldier funerals, and other events like the Sandy Hook memorial services.

“I read a story about Josef Miles, a 10-year-old kid who counter-protested the Westboro Baptist Church by holding a sign that says ‘God Hates No One,’” Jackson told the Huffington Post.

“I didn’t know anything about the church or where they were located, but that story kept popping up. And one night I wondered, Where is this church? I got on Google Earth, and I was ‘walking down the road,’ and I did a 360 view. And I saw a ‘For Sale’ sign sitting in the front yard of a house. Right away it hit me, Oh my gosh, I could buy that house in front of the WBC! And immediately I thought: And I’m going to paint that thing the color of the pride flag.”

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lexykeaton:

I met a man at the Uncommon Church outreach today, he had been reject from churches because of his relationship with another man. His exact words “I believe Jesus died for our sins. I can’t believe that my God would hate me!” Other churches made him feel like that was the case. I was proud to see my church family react so quickly to show this man love and compassion! These are the kinds of people that are going to change a nation! Just watch!

The wall between Christians and Gays.

There are certain things in this universe that just can’t be separated. God and love, faith and good works, obedience and blessing, salvation and the cross, etc. But here’s an inseparable association that we may not be so quick to recognize: mercy and weakness. In reality, you can’t disassociate the Lord’s mercy from man’s weakness, because it’s our deficiency that signals our need for His sufficiency. Our weakness acts as a messenger to us that we need help, that we need mercy. And it’s when we recognize this and open our empty hands that God fills them with the multitude of His mercies. As you survey the Scriptures, you’ll find that those who owned their weakness received mercy. We see this most strikingly in the ministry of Jesus. A leper, a woman who had been bleeding for more than a decade, a frantic and helpless father, a blind man who had been banished to a life of begging by the wayside…all understood they were weak…all received immeasurable mercy. Don’t misunderstand. This doesn’t mean all our ills will be healed if we simply confess them. Sometimes our suffering is a providential tool God uses for His purposes. But it does mean this: Our weakness can be our greatest strength if causes us to humbly call out to God for His mercy. Be in tune and in touch with the reality that your frame is frail. Do what the Psalmist did and confess your weakness, for it’s then you’ll find yourself mightily covered in mercy.

Lord of all mercies, never allow us to forget how undone and helpless we are apart from You!

Mercy’s Messenger

The best biblical definition for joy is “an unwavering gladness of heart that transcends our outward circumstances.” It goes without saying that this is something we all need and want. Joy is always in style and always in demand. You simply can’t have enough of it. If joy were a stock that could be bought and bartered, it would always be a sound investment. In fact, its value would prove greater than gold’s. But joy isn’t something people can procure on Wall Street…quite the opposite, actually. Notice where it comes from according to the Psalmist: those who put their trust in God. Faith is joy’s starting point. Joy is born and begins to grow when we place our confidence in the greatness of God, when we acknowledge all He’s capable of, and when we realize all His love accomplishes on our behalf. Joy, true transcendent joy, cannot be gained apart from an abiding trust in God. It’s like trying to produce light from darkness, it simply won’t happen. But joy abounds limitlessly for all who make the Lord their confidence. Where there is faith in Him, there is joy.

joy