Massachusetts city legalizes polyamory: J. I. Packer and the privilege of standing for biblical truth
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 21 July 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR JULY 21, 2020
A town in Massachusetts recently legalized polyamory, meaning "many loves." Today's podcast reviews this growing movement, then we focus on J. I. Packer's death and legacy and conclude with God's call to speak biblical truth with courage today.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit |
| 0:12.5 | thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.2 | What you're about to hear is a short excerpt from our latest book, The Greater Work, |
| 0:24.6 | how prayer positions you to receive all that grace intends to give. |
| 0:28.6 | In this new book, I discuss why we should pray, how we should pray, and what we should pray about. |
| 0:34.6 | Now, here's the quick excerpt. |
| 0:36.6 | Why are we so prone to take something so |
| 0:38.8 | simple and make it so complex, so puzzling? Why do we allow something as easy as a conversation |
| 0:45.3 | to become a stumbling block to a more robust spiritual life? When it comes to prayer, we may see |
| 0:51.3 | ourselves as inconsistent, apathetic, or even defeated. We may feel remorse |
| 0:56.5 | for not making prayer a priority, or we feel a lack of connection with God when our prayers |
| 1:01.9 | aren't answered within our preconceived timelines. And so prayer ebbs from our lives like a slow, |
| 1:08.4 | low tide. That ought not be the case. Psalm 145-18 says that, |
| 1:14.1 | The Lord is near to all who call on Him, to all who call on Him in truth, and yet so many of us |
| 1:20.3 | daily wrestle with our prayer lives. There are many reasons we don't pray as often, or as passionately, |
| 1:26.6 | as we could and should. But near the top of the |
| 1:29.3 | list is the question, why? To read more, request your copy of the greater work at daily article.org |
| 1:37.9 | today. |
| 1:41.1 | A man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become |
| 1:47.0 | one flesh, Genesis 2.24. A town in Massachusetts may be the first in the nation to recognize |
| 1:53.9 | polyamorous domestic partnerships. Polyamorous means many loves, and stands for the growing |
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