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Thomas Morton, who arrived at Plymouth in 1624 to engage in fur trading. Anyone who was convicted of interrupting a preacher would be compelled not only to pay a fine of 5 pounds – nearly $500 by today’s standards – but to stand upon a block of stone four feet high while wearing a sign that read “wanton Gospeller”. When someone calls your behavior “puritanical”, it’s not usually a compliment, is it? It seems as though this group of people had a spiritual gift for annoying people and making the faith look bad.įor instance, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts had a law against disrupting worship services. My hunch is that I’m not alone in thinking that many of the associations that we have with those words are less than positive.

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Not long after that, the first group of Pilgrims was enlarged by another group known as the Puritans, and after a few years, the Puritans were pretty much running the show in New England.Īs we continue this series on the Beatitudes of Jesus, we come to Matthew 5:8, which reads “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” When I think about “the pure in heart”, I think about words like “purity”, and “Puritan”, and “puritanical”. They spent some time in Holland, and eventually made their way to North America. Uncle John, of whom I’ve spoken before, was one of the leaders of a group of religious separatists who had become increasingly convinced that it was impossible for them to live a life of faith in England and so they struck out, looking for a better place in which to engage in holy pursuits. This includes my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-uncle John Carver, who was among the group that we call “Pilgrims” who arrived at Plymouth Rock in 1620. I have a new mug in my home: it’s a listing of all the passengers on the Mayflower. To see the worship service via YouTube, please visit the site below: To hear this message as preached in worship, please use the link below: On Sunday March 14 we turned to Matthew 15:1-11 and Psalm 24:1-6 and considered what it might mean to be “pure in heart”. I hold that these are eight core values that the people of God hold – the things that make us who we are.

Church of Crafton Heights will spend Lent considering the question, “When this (the pandemic, the struggle for racial reconciliation, the horrid winter, the political discord… fill in the blanks) is over, or at least a year or two or three down the road, what kind of people do we want to be?” We are anchoring our discussion in The Beatitudes as found in Matthew’s version of the Sermon on the Mount. The Christian observance of Lent began on Ash Wednesday, February 17.

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