February 16, 2025
Greetings and blessings to all of you. Have you noticed how certain things do not change over time? For example, our Christian values are still being attacked. Nothing new under the sun. Satan has always come against everything that God loves. He came to rob, kill and destroy. When you recall what happened in Elijah days; he experienced a major victory against those that came against the Almighty in (I Kings18). Armed with only his unflinching faith in the Lord he faced down 850 priests of the local false deities. God moved and destroyed the idolaters bringing glory to Himself throughout Israel. Another time, among many, is found in the story of Lot. He had made his home to close to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah who practiced the lifestyle ‘sodomy’. “For that God rained sulfur and fire on the cities destroying them, the entire plain, all the inhabitants in the cities and whatever grew on the ground.” (Gen.19:24-25) And we dare not forget how the earth was destroyed when God stated to the people in (Gen.6:5-7) “when the Lord saw that man’s wickedness was widespread on the earth and they every scheme his mind thought of was nothing but evil all the time; the Lord regretted that He made man on the earth and He was grieved in His heart. Then the Lord said, ‘I will wipe off from the face of the earth mankind whom I created together- with the animals, creatures that crawl and birds in the sky- but I regret I made them.” To ignore the values of ordinary believers and consider promoting evil against our future generation speaks volumes about how the culture dislike the values of God. Do we have the Holy Spirit in us who is totally being grieved and disrespected when our values are laughed at, ignored, and dismissed as if we were a joke? Don’t forget what happened during the Covid? The government said the church was non-essential and ordered to close but the liquor stores Walmart, weed shops were allowed to stay open because they were essential. Today notice how non-Christians are passing laws to ban transgender surgeries and treatment on minors, banning drag queen performances in front of children, and other mandates to keep gender indoctrination out of the classrooms. It is just sad that the church/Christians did not rally for these laws… even though we are supposed to be the salt and the light. Pray for Boldness and Discernment. Are we going to be the Lion or the lamb?
With the Love of Christ
First Lady Vivian C. Currie
Pastor ALC