A Faith That Won't Quit!

Have you ever had someone that you didn’t get along with? Maybe it was someone you had just me, and you simply didn’t “click.” Or maybe you were taught by your family not to like certain people. One of the most famous family feuds in American history is the conflict between the Hatfields and McCoys. The Hatfields, led by their patriarch Anderson “Devil Anse” Hatfield lived on the West Virginia side of the Tug Fork River and the McCoys, led by Randolph “Ran’l” McCoy, lived on the Kentucky side. Both families were in the lucrative timber business and the animosity went back long before the feud began. Rumor has it that the Hatfields were pretty well off and were prone to brag (of course this rumor probably was started by the McCoys). Even though the evidence is a little murky, the story is that the deadly feud began when Ran’l McCoy accused Floyd Hatfield of stealing one of his hogs and took him to court. A few weeks later, on Election Day, Ellison Hatfield died of wounds received at the hands of three of Ran’l McCoy’s sons. The leader of the Hatfields, “Devil Anse,” took matters into his own hands and had the three sons killed. The feud only grew from there. Over twelve years in the late eighteen hundreds twelve members of these two families lost their lives to the feud.

Israel vs. the Canaanites

In today’s passage about the faith of the Canaanite woman, we are reminded of a similar feud that took place on a much larger scale. It was a well-known fact that the people of Israel did not like Canaanites ? just read the first six or seven books of the bible. The Canaanites were the pagans who lived in the Promised Land before Israel