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Feasting While Children Die

Posted in Culture Shifts, Faith & Practice, Life issues, tagged abortion, forgiveness, good and evil, human life, Jesus Christ, murder for profit, Planned Parenthood, repentance, selling baby parts, the church, wake-up call on July 18, 2015| 2 Comments »

Over lunch and a glass of Merlot, Dr. Deborah Nucatola detailed the harvesting of body parts from partially aborted babies. She explained the “crushing” procedure of the unwanted parts of the baby, including the child’s head, followed by the gentle extraction of valuable organs. She quoted the price per heart, liver, and kidney while swirling wine in a goblet and dining on an elegantly served meal.

You can watch Dr. Nucatola, Abortionist and Senior Director of Medical Services for Planned Parenthood, and listen to her explain the business of abortion in this edited, eight minute video clip. If you can stomach it, you’ll find the three hour video entitled “Planned Parenthood in the Business of Selling Baby Parts FULL FOOTAGE” on YouTube.

My daughter-in-law, Alison, watched the video. Gut wrenched and with heavy heart for the children, she began to pray. But, Alison told me that her prayer was interrupted by an image from Lord of the Rings – The Return of the King. After you have watched Dr. Nucatola casually explain the purposeful killing of children (for a profit), Alison would like you to watch this movie clip.

“Please watch carefully,” says Alison. “Listen to the words of Pippin’s ballad. (You can read the lyrics on the screen.) Ponder the meaning. Then focus on the character Denethor, the greasy man with food dripping down his chin while death is all around.”

Alison asks, “Do you see light and darkness, good and evil?” If you are familiar with J.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings – The Return of the King, then you, like Alison, might have wondered, “How dead on the inside does someone have to be to have such a voracious appetite at a time like this? He eats with not a care in the world, yet there is blood on Denethor’s hands.”

Dr. Nucatola, is younger and much more attractive. But, Alison wonders, what about her appetite? What about her soul? How can she so casually detail the slaughter and sale of innocent human life while enjoying her fine feast?

“I pity her,” Alison told me. “What has been stripped away from her heart and mind to leave her in such an icy state of callousness? Is her conscience so dulled or deadened that she can discuss the price of a human child’s body parts and the crushing of that child’s skull in much the same manner as she might discuss the price of furniture or office supplies?”

Tolkien probably never imagined that his work “would be tied to abortion or the profit motivations of the human tissue industry,” Alison said. “But, while I was praying, the comparison between Dr. Nucatola and Denethor came so clearly to my mind that I cannot be silent.”

Alison believes that Jesus forgives women who repent of their abortions. He forgives the repentant boyfriends, husbands, or parents who insisted on abortions. He forgives the doctors who repent of doing abortions. Upon forgiveness, the Lord Jesus wipes the sinner’s slate clean so that he or she is as white as snow (Isaiah 1:18). With true repentance and sorrow, the Lord Jesus freely gives His mercy and the gift of salvation to all, no matter the offense (Psalm 86:5). Then, He says, “Go, and from now on sin no more” (John 8:11).

But, she asks, what of those who do not repent? What of those who not only do evil but defend evil? What of those who call themselves Christian but support Planned Parenthood or refuse to acknowledge what happens on the surgical table in a Planned Parenthood facility?

Alison is concerned about the spiritual health and salvation of people that you and I know—people in our families, our congregations, our neighborhoods who continue to insist that abortion is a “woman’s choice.” She wonders: If a person defends Planned Parenthood while forsaking the “little children whom Jesus wants to come to Him” (Matthew 19:14); if a person champions the death of their littlest neighbor—the babe in the womb, then does God turn His face away?

Alison is right to be concerned. There is a spiritual battle that rages for our very souls. During prayer, Alison was moved to compare the callousness of a Planned Parenthood abortionist with that of Tolkien’s lord of death. The powerful imagery brought to Alison’s mind should leave you and me as gut wrenched and soul sickened as it did her. “There is a burden on my heart,” Alison told me. “This burden causes me to ask a hard question to all who call themselves Christians: Will God forgive any of us—whether we have sinned by defending abortion or by keeping silent—if we have not confessed sorrow and repentance of that sin?”

Alison knows that “choice” is the word used by those who seek self-gratification and lordship of their own lives. But “choice,” she points out, is something we all really do have. We can choose evil… or good. We can choose to serve ourselves and the world… or God. To the Israelites, freed from captivity, Joshua said,

Fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord” (Joshua 24:14-15).

Alison asks, “Will we, the people who proclaim Jesus Christ, ignore Dr. Nucatola, Planned Parenthood and the imagery of Tolkien’s Denethor? Or will we say, ‘No more! My eyes are open! I will speak! I will speak for my littlest neighbors, the ones Jesus calls by name.”

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Gosnell, Abortion and Identity

Posted in Biblical manhood & womanhood, Faith & Practice, Identity, Life issues, Parenting & Education, Sexy or holy?, tagged children, choice, Jesus Christ, Kinsey, Planned Parenthood, self, sex, sexuality, spirituality, the lie on May 14, 2013| 1 Comment »

There are no words to describe what abortionist Gosnell did. I won’t try to come up with any. What he did in his little shop of horrors is no different than what goes on every day in abortion clinics across this country. Gosnell is guilty of murder. So is Planned Parenthood.

Abortion is the greatest child abuse. But it is also abuse of women. Abortion ends the life of a child God calls by name, but it forever changes the mother of that child. Babies carried into an abortion chamber by their mothers never exit. Mothers may exit, but they are physically, psychologically and spiritually altered. The way they see themselves and life itself is never the same.

What happens in abortion clinics will continue to happen until we all begin to see ourselves the way God sees us. Women will continue to seek abortions, men will pay for them, and churches will defend them until we stop identifying ourselves the wrong way.

Never – ever, has God identified boys and girls as “sexual from birth.” Before Alfred Kinsey, no one ever labeled children in such a way. But, for the last 60+ years, children have been told beginning as early as kindergarten that they are “sexual from birth.” Can we be so surprised that abortion was legalized some twenty years after men and women took on this new identity? If we’re told from childhood that we are “sexual,” then it can’t be helped. It is, after all, who God made us to be. Abstain? It would go against nature, wouldn’t it, to abstain from what is natural.

There is this one thing. Behavior is shaped by identity. However we see ourselves and others determines how we treat ourselves and others. Gosnell looked at the women and children who entered his clinic as less than human. He saw the women as sexual beings and the babies were products of that sexuality. Gosnell failed to see them all as God sees them. When we mis-identify our children as “sexual from birth” (which is taught in every sex education class) then we are failing, too. We are failing to see women, men and children as spiritual beings. Sexuality may have something to do with our bodies and minds, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with our spirits. Our spirits will live forever, you see, either with God or apart from Him.

Abortion, I’m afraid, is a sinful choice that will continue for as long as we sinful people inhabit this earth. However, people who love the lives that God creates could remove many of the excuses for abortion if only we would stop telling our children: You are “sexual from birth.” It’s just not true.

Repeat a lie often enough and many will believe it. They will act upon it. But, I’d like to be one of the different people God calls followers of Jesus to be. The kind of people who resist being labeled by the world and who call other people by their rightful identity.

To do so will make a difference, one man, one woman, one child at a time.

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Bedroom Perplexities

Posted in Biblical manhood & womanhood, Culture Shifts, Life issues, tagged abortion, cohabitation, conscience, health care mandate, HHS, Planned Parenthood, promiscuity on January 15, 2013| 1 Comment »

I’m perplexed. Can you help?

When I speak up against abortion and for the rights of unborn children and the well-being of women, I’m told: “What happens in the privacy of a bedroom is none of your business.”

Well, if that’s true, then why should I be forced to pay for what happens there?

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The Royals Are Having a Baby!

Posted in Culture Shifts, Faith & Practice, Identity, Life issues, tagged abortion, Breakpoint, creator of life, Eric Metaxas, language, Planned Parenthood, Redeemer, sanctity of life, words matter on December 23, 2012| Leave a Comment »

“The battle over human dignity,” writes Eric Metaxas, “is waged not just at the local abortion clinic or crisis pregnancy center, nor merely in the halls of Congress or the Supreme Court. It is also carried out in our choice of words.”

Metaxas points out that “the war on the sanctity of human life relies on bullets of deception and warheads of untruth – in short, on what George Orwell called ‘political language,’ which he said ‘is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.’”

Metaxas explains that those who support the legal killing of unborn human beings in the womb “have used political language for decades, cloaking their morally indefensible position in innocuous-sounding terms such as ‘choice’ and ‘women’s health’ – hoping the rest of us will forget about the status and rights of the other person directly affected in the abortion transaction – namely the fetus.”

Planned Parenthood folks typically deny the humanity or personhood of the baby in the womb by calling it a “lump of tissue,” “product of conception,” or “potential person.” But, writes Metaxas, “it’s hard to keep up the verbal sleight of hand all the time. A case in point is the considerable elation over the news that Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, is carrying a child. That’s right, a child, not a ‘product of conception.’ We are told that her ‘baby’ will be third in line to the throne, behind only Prince William and Prince Charles.”

At this point, the pro-life Christian has opportunity to reveal “verbal sleight of hand” and also ask questions that help others think. The Duchess is in her first trimester. Is this a baby or not? Is this a child with a destiny or not? Is this child special or just like the other non-persons who have been aborted from wombs in Britain, the U.S., and all over the world? As Christians, we are compelled to answer all questions from God’s perspective, not our own.

As Metaxas (and others) point out, “the language we use matters. Is the life in the womb a ‘product of conception’ or a person, maybe even a prince in waiting?”

In a response to Metaxas’ commentary, someone named Kevin posted, “Try to imagine even the most staunch abortion advocate being present at a childbirth and, when the head is coming out, saying, ‘Look! It’s turning into a human!’” Bearing this in mind, the Christian is compelled to do what philosopher Peter Kreeft suggests. We need to see the personhood of the fetus as the defining issue for abortion, “for if the fetus is not a person, abortion is not the deliberate killing of an innocent person.” The Christian does well to know God’s Word on this matter of human dignity, life and death.

As we reflect on the first coming of Jesus, the Creator and Redeemer of all human life, let us draw near to His Word about life: Job 10:8-12; Psalm 8:4-5; 119:73; 139:13-16; Ecclesiastes 11:5; Isaiah 44:24; Luke 1:15; 1:41-44; John 16:21; Galatians 1:15-16.

Apprection to Eric Metaxas for “The Royal Fetus” www.breakpoint.org
and The Unaborted Socrates by Peter Kreeft

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Vote… Then Stay Calm and Carry On

Posted in Citizenship, Culture Shifts, Faith & Practice, Life issues, Vocation, tagged family, health care, Jesus Christ, marriage, military, pedophilia, Planned Parenthood, President Obama, sanctity of life, sex trafficking on November 1, 2012| 4 Comments »

In the last four years, human life has been placed more at risk. The “right to life” that America promises to guard and protect has diminished. The life of the unborn – and, therefore, also the born – has been declared of value only if that life is convenient and wanted.

In the last four years and under a government that seems to have another allegiance, a cruel blow has been dealt to the sanctity of human life, the institution of marriage and the guardianship of children. Generations will pay dearly.

Here’s what I see. The king sets himself and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying, “Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us” (Psalm 2:2-3).

In the past four years, this government has passed over the Creator of life in the scramble to feed the ravenous coffers of Planned Parenthood (PP). “Opportunity Centers,” PP’s friendly neighborhood sterilization chambers, are set up in strategic locations to reach America’s daughters so they don’t have to worry about pregnancy. Is there a reason why abortion clinics are strategically set in the middle of African American neighborhoods? Strange, isn’t it, that one of their own would allow this to happen. Under no other American presidency has there been such a tight bond between the one who is to defend life and the institution which makes a profit from destroying life.

In the last four years, Americans have been put at risk by an economic burden that threatens to suck the very life out of us. What kind of leadership pits the young against the old, the “haves” against the “have nots,” and, in general, one citizen against another?

In the last four years, the vibrancy of life that grows out of time-honored marriage and family has been slowly drained away at the altar of progressivism. But, two men and two women are not a “good fit” (Genesis 2:18). Faith and science walk hand in hand to prove that social experiments – those trendy ideas that go against the very structure and design of civilization – have terrible consequences.

In the past four years, pedophilia, sex trafficking and all forms of sexual deviancy have risen to dangerous levels. The hope of desensitizing society and changing the penal code system so that all manner of sexual lust and imagination can be practiced has, indeed, been realized.

In the past four years, the government has determined to take over the health care system. But, human lives will fall between the cracks of a cold and monolithic structure. The government, after all, is not a person with heart and hands to care. As to efficiency, well, take a good look at the U.S. Post Office or federally (as opposed to locally) run schools.

In the past four years, people of faith have been told they must deny their faith in order to pay for deeds and services that go against God and conscience. Under government health care, church-supported schools, social services, and hospitals must cover the sterilization, abortion producing drugs, and birth control of employees. To refuse places church or private Christian business under penalty of heavy fine. Will it be God… or Caesar?

In the past four years, the life of every American citizen is more at risk because this government would rather build relationships with America’s enemies than strengthen our defense. When “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was gutted and in-the-field-experienced soldiers sequestered, our president bowed to those who seek jihad against American men, women and children.

The Lord of creation does not stand far off. He has not forgotten those who call upon Him. He defends the fatherless and oppressed. He has shown us what is good. What does He ask of us? “To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8).

So, please. Vote. Vote as if your life depends on it.

Then, in the words of Winston Churchill (the man whose bust was removed from the White House four years ago): “Stay calm. Carry on.”

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Why Are Women Anti-Woman?

Posted in Biblical manhood & womanhood, Identity, Life issues, Vocation, tagged abortion, AUL, nationalized health care, NOW, Planned Parenthood, sanctity of life, Susan G. Komen on March 25, 2012| 1 Comment »

What’s wrong with being a woman? A woman who is pro-woman no matter our differences? A woman who doesn’t have to compete with or “one up” a man? Who appreciates her noble and irreplaceable role? Who understands that men need women to help them be better men? Who knows how to build up rather than tear down? Who does not feel demeaned by the titles of “Mrs., “Mother,” or “Grandmother?”

What’s wrong with being a woman who thinks conservatively? Who isn’t impressed or foolishly flattered by utopian ideas? Who keeps herself informed and engages in dialogue? Who isn’t ashamed to live her life, face each circumstance, and treat other people in ways that flow from her Christian faith – the only worldview that gives her hope?

What’s wrong with being a woman who has never celebrated legalized abortion? Who doesn’t believe that a woman’s rights are greater than a child’s? Who recognizes that abortion has only devalued every other human life? Who agrees with Mary Harnard, staff counsel at Americans United for Life, that abortion is “anti-woman?” (You can read her article at http://www.aul.org/2012/03/the-anti-woman-world-of-roe/print/ )

What’s wrong with being a woman who doesn’t agree with the worldview, business, and strong-arming tactics of Planned Parenthood? Who doesn’t want to fund with her tax-dollars an organization that sexualizes girls and then stands ready as the largest profiteering-provider of abortions in the nation? Who doesn’t appreciate the fact that PP (who does not give mammograms but does mammography referrals) would assault Susan G. Komen when they determined that PP doesn’t really have anything to do with fighting breast cancer and so decided not to grant them 1% ($680,000) of their annual grants? What’s wrong with being a woman who questions why the $1 billion-in-revenue-monolith PP, in collaboration with Moveon.org, would become so “vile and vicious” against Komen and its donors? (“The Abortion Empire Strikes Back,” an interview with Komen’s former senior vice president Karen Handel, WORLD, March 24, 2012)

What’s wrong with being a woman who believes that human life is the greatest natural resource of any thriving nation? Who believes every human life is created by God? Who finds something perverse in a national health care plan that sees human life as a debit entry on a balance sheet? Who wonders why Kathleen Sebelius would want to be the “secretary of human prevention” or insist that “poor” and “mostly black and brown” women receive free contraception and abortion-causing drugs? (Do I hear the whisper of eugenics?)

What’s wrong with being a woman who dares to ask: Why are so many women “anti-woman?” More girl babies than boy babies are aborted around the world. Girls mentored to be sexually-free are seldom told their female anatomy is more susceptible to bacteria and infections. Girls assured that abortion is a “right” are rarely asked if they’d like to listen to the heartbeat of their unborn child or watch that baby on the ultrasound screen. Young women told that children inconvenience relationships, careers, and success too often become older women longing for the sounds of grandchildren.

Why are so many women “anti-woman?” Why do they find little value in teaching their daughters the skills for making a home… a nest for husband and children? Why do they give them license to unrestrained emotions? Dress them to be temptresses? Make them physically, psychologically, and spiritually more vulnerable?

Is the National Organization of Women (NOW) pro or anti-woman? Are women’s studies classes on university campuses pro or anti-women? Are Congresswomen and women justices on the Supreme Court pro or anti-women? When Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Dana Perino, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachman, S.E. Cupp, Laura Ingraham, Condoleezza Rice, Michelle Malkin, and other conservative-thinking women are called all manner of hateful names by Keith Olbermann, Ed Schultz, Bill Maher and other crude un-gentlemen, do liberal-thinking women come to the defense of their sisters?

Why are so many women anti-woman? What’s wrong with being a woman who is o.k. with being a woman? Who doesn’t doubt her value? Who can re-adjust plans to welcome an “unexpected” child? Who delights in making a home no matter the size of the house? Who speaks well of good men?

Women who believe in the vitality and hopefulness of being a wife, mother, grandmother, and encourager of all that is female are just exactly what this country needs.

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A Revolution Against Evil

Posted in Biblical manhood & womanhood, Faith & Practice, Parenting & Education, Vocation, tagged grandparents, parents, Planned Parenthood, safe sex, truth on March 2, 2012| 1 Comment »

I’m a tolerant person. Tolerant of people, but not of the wrong things people do.

I have no tolerance for socially experimenting with children, stripping away their innocence, and setting them up for a fall. I see the mission of pro-sodomy groups who know they can’t have their own children so absolutely must recruit other people’s children. I’ve studied more than I ever wanted to know about Margaret Sanger, Alfred Kinsey, Planned Parenthood (PP), and SIECUS. I am convinced: evil does exist.

What else should we call PP’s Northwest Region’s promotion of “Where Did You Wear It?”

The Daily Caller is reporting that, as part of National Condom Week, the nation’s largest abortion factory is selling and distributing 55,000 condoms with QR codes that allow users to “check in” and plot their GPS location on the interactive PP “Where Did You Wear It? map.

The PP site asks users: “Did you use a condom to protect yourself against unwanted pregnancy, HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases?” Once answered, PP offers up encouragement like “You Go tiger!” and “Safe sex should be shared.” Users can then anonymously brag about intimate details of their allegedly safer sex experience.

PP asks users to describe the experience by choosing from PP-suggested phrases like “Ah-maz-ing,” “rainbows exploded . . . ,” (ezerwoman chooses wisely not to give more examples). Finally, users are asked to answer the question, “Where did you wear it?” and then encouraged to share their entire experience with the world through direct links to Facebook and Twitter.

Penny Nance of Concerned Women for America calls this “the most despicable mockery of love, marriage and the private relationship between a man and a woman” that she’s ever seen. Even worse, “our tax-dollars are actually funding this organization that so brazenly undermines our values.”

Yes. Evil does exist. And evil has no desire for a generation of hope.

This Sunday, March 4, my fifth grandchild is going to be baptized. Kate joins a big brother, Max, and three big boy cousins, Jaden, Ethan, and Andrew. These young lives are proof that hope exists. You can be sure that I will stay in this battle between good and evil for their sake… and for as long as I have breath. I will talk to my grandchildren about patient love. Friendship and trust. Courtship and marriage. I will guard the gate of their modesty. I will encourage them to bring glory to God rather than to themselves as males and female. I will always remind them that they are on a journey to an eternal destination. And… I promise to help them journey well by warning of deception and teaching the truth.

George Orwell said, “In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

The revolution for a new generation begins with each parent. Grandparent. Resisters of evil – all!

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Jesus Said: Don’t Hinder the Children, But Are We?

Posted in Biblical manhood & womanhood, Faith & Practice, Life issues, Parenting & Education, tagged " homosexuality, abortion, infanticide, Planned Parenthood on February 28, 2012| 1 Comment »

Jesus said, “Let the children come to Me; do not hinder them” (Mark 10:14). Jesus also said, “Temptations to sin are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come! It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin” (Luke 17:1-2)

Jesus expressed righteous anger when the disciples were trying to prevent little ones from coming to Jesus. Jesus knows that infants can believe or trust (Luke 18:15) as shown by the way they long to be held by parents rather than by strangers. An infant may inherit God’s kingdom (salvation) just as an infant may inherit the parents’ blessing and property. Children have to trust and receive the care of others, and only in the same way does the kingdom of God come to us. But, what is the world – what are we – doing to prevent children from trusting God? What are we doing to hinder them or cause them to sin?

Do we hinder a child from coming to Jesus through the act of abortion? Can a dead child grow in trust and a personal relationship with Christ? Do we prevent a little one from coming to Jesus through the act of infanticide? Peter Singer, an ethicist and professor at Princeton University has long proclaimed that no newborn should be considered a person until 30 days after birth and that the attending physician should kill some disabled babies on the spot. “Human babies are not born self-aware, or capable of grasping that they exist over time,” he wrote in 1979. “They are not persons;” therefore, “the life of a newborn is of less value than the life of a pig, a dog, or a chimpanzee.” Where in Scripture does Jesus say that He wants a relationship only with perfect children? Where does God say He cannot make a difference in the world through less than perfect children?

Do we cause little children to sin by giving them information they cannot process? K-12 sex education is mandated in some form throughout U.S. schools. Such education is built on the premise that more knowledge is good. (What did God warn man about in Genesis 2:15-17?) At early ages, boys and girls are put in classrooms together to learn about all things sexual. The goal is to make children “comfortable with their sexuality.” A great deal of information, discussions of “safe” sex, and how to use contraceptives are offered in elementary and middle school. Religious or moral views are not considered “science;” therefore, they are not tolerated in the classroom. But, purity instruction is scientifically supported. A child’s brain is not fully developed; therefore, he cannot process all information. Adult brains use the frontal lobe to think through the facts, rationalize, and put the brakes on emotional responses. The frontal lobe is not fully developed until the late teens or even early 20s. It’s not lack of information that puts children at risk; it’s lack of judgment. This is largely ignored by sex educators, fashions, the media and internet. Children are tempted with sexual images and suggestions away from what is holy, pure, healthy, and good. Pharmaceutical companies and Planned Parenthood stand ready to profit from harmful choices. What do you think? How does all of this benefit children? Are children led to Jesus, or away from Him?

Do we cause children to sin by letting them believe that marriage between two men or two women is perfectly acceptable? Homosexual groups are pressuring schools to teach children that they can choose whichever they want to be: boy or girl. That homo, bi, or transsexual are “diverse” and “normal.” Does such teaching lead children to Jesus Christ, The Word – or away from Him?

There is hope! There is always hope for children when parents trust God’s creation and design. Guard innocence. Resist evil.

Please visit Dr. Miriam Grossman, then contrast her scientific study with PP’s TeenWire

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No Time For Foolishness

Posted in Biblical manhood & womanhood, Culture Shifts, Faith & Practice, Life issues, Vocation, tagged abortion, baby boomers, economy, freedom of religion, marriage, Planned Parenthood, worship on February 15, 2012| 1 Comment »

Dear friends and fellow people of faith,

Now is not the time for foolishness.

Please, don’t look at your watch on Sunday morning and complain if Divine Service expands beyond your allotted hour. Instead, thank God that He is serving you and filling you with Word and Sacrament so that you are energized for your vocations of parenting, teaching, working, learning, building, and neighboring.

Please, put away your pride and curb your sensitivity if your pastor seems to speak directly to you and your particular weakness or sin. Be grateful that God is using His servant to stir your conscience and lead you away from harm.

Please, don’t close your ears and plant your feet stubbornly if you hear your pastor speak about sins including abortion, homosexuality, living together outside of marriage, so-called gay “marriage,” euthanasia, and so on. You may feel loyal to a particular political party. You may believe that the church should stay silent where the government has spoken. But, a pastor that speaks where God speaks is a pastor who is faithful to his call. Instead of resisting that pastor or telling him to keep quiet, please pray for him. Pray that he speak the Truth of Christ with the attitude of Christ.

Please, don’t be distracted by hymns with melodies you don’t like; or vestments that seem too priestly; or the weekly Lord’s Supper that stretches “church” even longer; or an organ that sounds, well, too much like a church organ; or a choir that doesn’t entertain. Instead, be thankful that you can congregate with fellow believers in a public place of worship.

This, dear friends and fellow people of faith, is no time for foolishness. Why? Because we are living in a country that has legalized the killing of children in the womb whose hearts beat as vibrantly as the hearts of their mothers. (Those 53+ million babies would have invigorated our economy and supported an aging 76 million baby boomers.)

We are living in a country where three states have legalized euthanasia and six states plus the District of Columbia have legalized so-called same-sex “marriage.”

We are living in a country where voters – many of them Christian – elected Barak Obama. Under this president and his administration, freedom of worship (personal faith kept to oneself) has replaced freedom of religion (personal faith shared and practiced in public).

Under this president, freedom of sexual expression (hetero, homo, bi or trans) is the right above all other rights.

Under this president, the government partners with Planned Parenthood (the nation’s largest provider of abortions) and we, the taxpayers, fund deceitful cover of rape and under-age prostitution, separation of minors from their parents, and drugs and procedures that place girls and young women at risk physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Under this president, people of faith – people like you and me – are being stripped of their right to conscience; in other words, their right to resist evil and do good. With “Obamacare,” for example, church bodies are being told that they must obey Caesar rather than God.

So please, dear friends and people of faith –

This is not the time to foolishly complain about the length of Divine Service, or liturgy, or sermons that make you squirm. This is the time to thank God that you can still gather in His name and in a public place. This is the time to grow more familiar with The Word, partake in the Sacrament, and encourage one another to resist evil and mentor a new generation for Christ.

Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is” (Ephesians 5:17).

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Thank You Susan G. Komen

Posted in Life issues, tagged breast cancer, Planned Parenthood on February 2, 2012| 2 Comments »

On behalf of women and children, I thank the Susan G. Komen Foundation for stopping all grants to Planned Parenthood. Those grants were in excess of a half million dollars annually. Why did Susan G. Komen pull their funds away from Planned Parenthood? Because Komen will no longer fund organizations that refer clients elsewhere for mammograms. Planned Parenthood claims they do mammograms, but they don’t.