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The Importance of Family

 Family has come under attack, most consistently by the forces of Marxim.   As a  movement , Black Lives Matter has taken that true concept (black lives matter) and twisted it into something completely unbiblical. The organization has recently showed its true colors, openly promoting causes that oppose biblical values. The two co-founders of Black Lives Matter, Patrisse Cullors and Alicia Garza, claim  Marxism  as their ideology: “We actually do have an ideological frame,” Cullors said in an interview, “Myself and Alicia in particular, we’re trained organizers. We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on ideological theories” (quoted in the  Washington Times , “The matter of Marxism: Black Lives Matter is rooted in a soulless ideology,” June 29, 2020).  [Quote:   https://www.gotquestions.org/Marxism-Christian.html ]   From GotQuestions.Org, we read of a Marxist inspired attack on the family, operating subtly through the Black Lives Matter movement.   Perhaps most troubling is Black

"I Just Wish You Would Respect Me." 2 Kings 5

  9. So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha. 10 And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean. 11 But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. 12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage. 13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean? 14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh o

A Beckoning World

  November 2020, Thanksgiving has passed. It is Monday morning. I am with my daughter at her workplace. We sit in a kitchen, across from each other on a 3 1/2 foot diameter wooden table. She works at her computer, designing a house for us to live in.  Chapel Hill Handel's Messiah Open Sing:       https://cvnc.org/reviews/2002/december/ChapelHill37.html https://universityumc.church/event/annual-open-sing-handels-messiah/ We aim to move up in the world of sanctification. The only way we know how to "do" this is to repent and enter into prayer. Even so, the world beckons with desperate intensity that we do anything but pray. What is it about the world that it should so dislike prayer?