William Henry Brisbane, Baptist minister, says that American chattel slavery was a system of violence against the poor, needy, and stranger (Ezekiel (22:29).
It’s interesting that “vexation” is condemned. Those who might blush at calling it robbery cannot deny the widespread vexation. Is there anything going on today that vexes the stranger?
How can you provide relief to the poor and stranger?
Richard Bernard, Puritan, on the governor, Nehemiah, who refused pay (chapter 5) when his people suffered in bondage. Great persons excelling in stature & wealth should be “melting” before the deserve to be called great. Bernard laments that he lives a frozen, cruel and an iron age.
“Melting”. Isn’t this the very antithesis of modern theology?
How can you be “melting” and truly great today?
When you begin to think that a climate change disaster on the other end of the country isn't important to you, realize that Hurricane Helene damaged a Baxter Medical manufacturing plant that supplies IV fluids and irrigation solutions to 60% of the United States, causing critical shortages to hospitals thousands of miles away.
We are all connected.
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(Reuters) - #Ryanair said today 23/07 that its flights to and from #Rhodes are operating as normal and unaffected by a wildfire that forced 1000s of tourists and residents to shelter in schools and indoor stadiums.
U may remember Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary during #Covid
"We are doing everything we can to meet the challenge posed by the Covid-19 outbreak, which has over the last week caused extraordinary and unprecedented travel restrictions to be imposed by National Governments.
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