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Better version: Things that helped me study 1. Jordan studied with me 2. Mama turned off Internet  (When older brother got psychosis, 2014) 3. Auditing two courses a semester had little pressure (for several years before entering Judson College) 4. Loving professors helped me grow. Dr. Williams nurtured my love for comparative linguistics by spending up to an hour with me after each class. Dr. Quarles encouraged me to study text criticism. Dr. Robinson encouraged me in general. Dr. Hardy taught me comparative linguistics. Nathan and Jordan read with me. 5. I got sick with Lyme. 6. Val helped me with German. Essential for my Ugaritic studies. 7. School let me audit French. Helpful for research. 8. I got accepted into the college when I thought there were too many obstacles to get in. Christopher Long  :: Things that Helped Me Study First Semester Undergraduate Studies At Judson College, Wake Forest, NC, U.S.A. Dec 8, 2024, 1:12 AM (1 day ago)  

  1. Regular meals:  There is no substitute for family dinner time discussions, fellowship, and communion.  Sharing a table together nightly is a priceless buttress supporting the biblical family model.   2. Weight-lifting: regular family attendance to a fitness center or the YMCA 3. Swimming: "Go three times a week to the YMCA to swim."  (I agree. This would be very good for our health. And I would enjoy it particularly. Swimming is a beautiful mental experience for me. I think of my parents and my youth in a beautiful sort of way.)  4. Regular Bible reading each night, with prayer and singing.  (I would like to have a choir, practicing 4-part harmony with the piano.)  5. A Trashcan in each room.  We now have several at The Popcorn House.  It works well now that I have time to gather and empty them all.  6. “Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels, but old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.” Dumbledore H...

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                 Collection of Working Drafts  A. Honor In Our Speech 6 July 2025 To honor your parents, strive to always treat them like an honored guest. Give your undivided attention first and foremost to them. Remember what your parents say, even the little things, and your days shall be not only long on this earth, but your days shall recline in peaceful, productive flourishing. And you shall find it vastly easier to let God flow through you as you love all peoples. Do not disdain your parents or judge them. Do not interrupt them when they speak. Refrain from scorning them or admonishing them. Never discount their advice or wisdom, as if they were fools. Rather, listen to them when they speak. Do not cross-examine them, ridicule them, or question them severely. Always answer the phone and listen to them well when they call. And thank God you only have two parents, whom you have to give this extra-high ...

 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 Bla...

  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 fle...