January 4, 2025 Posted Thoughts on my book "In the Eye of Prayer"

 Not sure if I am feeling anxiousness, anticipation, terror, or a combination of all three. It is official. My book “In the Eye of Prayer” will be released on January 28th. It can be pre-ordered. Truly a nail biter as I have put off publishing this book for years. I think the hard part for me is summing up for anyone asking “what’s it about?” I just need to practice a response until it is automatic and I don’t stumble over my words and then ramble like I have no clue what the book’s about. I am sure I will get better at it. LOL! Here is the link to my site with all my book information and links on where you can order your copy. If you dare 🙂

https://sites.google.com/view/tanya-attebery-dreamsdontfade?usp=sharing

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As I think about 2025 New Year’s resolutions. Instead of adding to my plate I am going to reduce and fine tune my focus. My pastor just finished our study in the book of Ephesians with a deep dive into the Full Armor of God. Intermingled in that, the new legislation session starts in February. Local legislation matters. K-12 & higher education matters. Regulations, Policies, and our Nevada Constitution matters. The presidential election may be over, but what happens on the local level is even more essential for our families, communities, and state. Stay informed and take time to make your voice heard this legislative session. 

"Through the blessing of the upright a city is exalted, but by the mouth of the wicked it is destroyed" (Proverbs 11:11).

"For lack of guidance a nation falls, but victory is won through many advisers" (Proverbs 11:14).

The Armor of God is mentioned in the Old Testament. The prophet Isaiah spoke to the leaders of Judah and Israel. His message was a contrast between warnings of judgment and destruction to the promises of hope and prosperity. This book is so important to today as it is relevant to today’s culture and society. The warfare is not just physical but spiritual. Darkness is in stark contrast with the light. Payers, we are light! This warning speaks volumes:

“For your hands are stained with blood, your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken falsely, and your tongue mutters wicked things. No one calls for justice; no one pleads a case with integrity. They rely on empty arguments, they utter lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to evil” (Isaiah 59: 3-4).

“Their deeds are evil deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands. Their feet rush to sin; they are swift to shed innocent blood. They pursue evil schemes; acts of violence mark their ways. The way of peace they do not know; there is no justice in their paths. They have turned them into crooked roads; no one who walks along them will know peace” (Isaiah 59: 7-8).

As we wrap up the 1st week of January 2025, prayers over each person’s resolutions. May this year bring blessings. If you are in need of prayers then don’t hesitate to reach out. Red Rock Calvary offers online services and a call in offer after every Sunday service. Get ready to get involved in any capacity this year. Your voice matters!

God Bless you all,

dreamsdontfade.com

Shepherds For Sale by Megan Basham: Critical Race Prophets

 5. Critical Race Prophets:

***Pastors taking on the role of the Holy Spirit

CRT defined: a system built upon allocating privileges, power, and opportunities in inequitable ways 

-collective repentance of racism

-non-black leaders sought forgiveness for being blind to their white privilege 

-non-black leaders sought forgiveness for being complicit in perpetuating systemic racism

-leaders still apologized but not have any specific prejudices or bigoted acts to confess themselves 

-non-black members were called to repent themselves

“The non-black leaders had been passive about the pattern of systemic racism we see in our nation and so they were repenting.”

-exhorted white members to resist being defensive and not to run away from hard conversations

-asked member to be committed to being anti racist

-churches dedicated to collectively repenting of their complicity in racism

Christ Central:

-held a for black women by black women conference

-is your faith deeply oppressive

-conference on white Christians were making making black Christians fit into a particular mold

-conference had decolonize discipleship form witness 

-Book study dedicated to ongoing discussions of racism “White Fragility” by Robin DiAngelo

-white members should be open to seeing their unconscious bias 

-white members lament is wasteful as white women’s tears were a manipulation tactics to avoid responsibility

-members need the racism discipled out of them

-church intentionally utilizing some lesson from Critical Race Theory

Dismantling Structural Racism/Promoting Racial Equity:

-in government and schools, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion departments throughout the country

-you just can’t be against racism, but embrace your bias in every aspect of your life

-the key element of CRT is white privilege 

-CRT is the solution to racism: Marxist perceived good of the group over the liberty and private rights of the individual

“If white people are the oppressors and minorities are the oppressed, the struggle between racial groups takes the place of Marx’s class struggle.”

Public Schools:

-CRT unequivocally has socialist & Marxist origins and objectives

-teaching students that some are privileged while others are more oppressed because of the color of their skin

-CRT rebranded civil rights 

-rewrite American history 

-Black Lives Matter is a positive example of CRT activism 

-Restorative Justice Practices

Baylor University (Baptist school):

-give students 5 tips to Cultivate Cultural Humility and Antiracism through diversity, equity, and inclusion

Wheaton College:

2021-held a racially segregated graduation ceremony for minority students

Pennsylvania Grove City College (conservative religious school):

2020-the president’s office was launching a diversity council

“Freedom, justice, and democracy, especially for black people and other people of color, are in imminent danger.”

-held “racial struggle sessions”  that pressured students to admit their inner racism and white guilt 

-added a new course titled Cultural Diversity and Advocacy to teach students on “how to become actively anti racist”

-syllabus including Kendi and DiAngelo texts requiring student to create a racial reconciliation community project

***Social Justice Replaced the Great Commission

-ethnic minorities are encouraged to view themselves as the oppressed and whites are automatically defined as the oppressors

-dethroning white supremacy

-CRT’s Marx-based redistribution ideology

-surrender leadership to black candidates

Contrasts:

**CRT causes unbiblical division

**CRT is unscriptural

**CRT  = victims and oppressors

**Bible = sinners and saints 

**CRT = there is no forgiveness

**Bible = Individual forgiveness by faith through Jesus

**CRT = Kendi “fundamentally rejects Savior theology”

Question: Is Critical Race Theory UnChristian? YES

CRT = earthly utopia without God 

Conclusion:

-we are being trained in fear, suspicion, bitterness, and resentment, so why would the Church ever want to synthesize such ungodly lessons with the Gospel that reconciles men to each other by reconciling them first to Christ

Theologian Voddie Bacham, himself Black, addressed this well with his coinage of the term ethnic Gnosticism. It is the idea that people have special knowledge based solely on their ethnicity. He wrote “Fault Lines,” a book on CRT’s devastating impact on the Church.