Posted on 08/29/2019 7:09:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Why?
The personal greed of the people.
They don’t want to work marriage problems out with their spouse and so they go for the money.
Another reason — the breakup of the family because of contraception (the pill) making procreation and sex meaningless.
Because they forgot to pray together to the Holy Spirit and ask for help day in and day out..
Because their arguments are losers.
Great line!
Another enlightened, compassionate and progressive cultural benefit of the Sexual Revolution.
A great prayer for husband and wife every morning:
We thank you, our Heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, Your dear Son, that you have kept us this night from harm and danger and pray that you would keep us this day also from sin and every evil that all our doings and lives may please You. For into Your hands we commend ourselves, our bodies and souls and all things. Let your holy angel be with us that the evil foe may have no power over us. Amen.
(Luther’s morning prayer)
"Fellow-citizens, the ark of your covenant is the Declaration of independence. Your Mount Ebal, is the confederacy of separate state sovereignties, and your Mount Gerizim is the Constitution of the United States. In that scene of tremendous and awful solemnity, narrated in the Holy Scriptures, there is not a curse pronounced against the people, upon Mount Ebal, not a blessing promised them upon Mount Gerizim, which your posterity may not suffer or enjoy, from your and their adherence to, or departure from, the principles of the Declaration of Independence, practically interwoven in the Constitution of the United States. Lay up these principles, then, in your hearts, and in your souls – bind them for signs upon your hands, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes – teach them to your children, speaking of them when sitting in your houses, when walking by the way, when lying down and when rising up – write them upon the doorplates of your houses, and upon your gates – cling to them as to the issues of life – adhere to them as to the cords of your eternal salvation. So may your children’s children at the next return of this day of jubilee, after a full century of experience under your national Constitution, celebrate it again in the full enjoyment of all the blessings recognized by you in the commemoration of this day, and of all the blessings promised to the children of Israel upon Mount Gerizim, as the reward of obedience to the law of God." - John Quincy Adams (Final Paragraph - "The Jubilee of the Constitution" A DISCOURSE Delivered at the Request of The New York Historical Society In the City of New York, On Tuesday, the 30th of April, 1839, Being the Fiftieth Anniversary Of the INAUGURATION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON as President of the United States on Thursday, 30th of April, 1789, by John Quincy Adams (Eldest son of John Adams, born in 1767, served as Minister to the Netherlands under President Washington, as minister to Prussia and to Russia, as Secretary of State, and as U.S. Senator. He was the Sixth President of the United States and from 1830 until his death in 1848 served the nation as a United States Congressman)Do any now retired teachers remember when the National Education Association provided booklets and other materials based on Biblical teachings and America's founding documents in order to teach children their rights and responsibilities as good citizens?
Perhaps an examination of this web site may refresh the minds of such teachers. Or, perhaps a reading of this factual account of NEA publications may enlighten others who are younger to understand the degree to which the "progressive" control of education in America may have contributed to our current dilemma.
"Posterity, you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that ever I took half the pains to preserve it." - John Adams - 2nd President of the United States and advocate for the Declaration of Independence
"Ideas have consequences." - Weaver
Good post!
Ministers who would rather take a trip to South America to 'help some tribe' (read vacation) than assist with the concerns of their own flock...
Preachers who care more about kissing the butts of big donors than about offering ethical direction to their churches...
And the list goes on...
We go to church for spiritual growth and guidance...half the time we get 'what's in fashion' liberal crap of the moment.
The big problem that has led to a lack of respect is that the clergy seems to be a lot more liberal then the laity.
Finding clergy in the big four, (Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist and Episcopalian) that actually believes in the Bible is becoming a rarity.
And a good number of them do not even believe there is a God at all.
If they do not believe yet continue to label themselves clergy there is a good reason not to trust or respect them.
Try Chabad.
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