"The key to the ending of abortion is the voice of the post-abortive woman."
Nancy: "It seems that if we’re going to have any real serious advances in this whole movement of choosing life, we’ve also got to deal with the way of thinking about sex and purity. That’s where the floodgates are, in the worldly view of sexuality. Promiscuity is what is putting so many women in the position of having to make that kind of choice."Jason: "I think we’re making progress there, too. All the studies show a polarization among young people. We’re seeing more and more young people choosing chastity, but we’re also seeing more and more young people living more reckless and dangerous lives.
In the 1970s and 1980s, there was a general culture of—I hate to use this word—a “tepid” promiscuity. They were promiscuous. But now we see young people who are very, very, very promiscuous.
But then, there are more and more young people who are choosing chastity.
You asked if we’re going to win. And I think, yes, because the culture of death—the seeds of its own destruction are in it. Pornography is devastating our young people. But the fruit of this devastation is that these young people are then inoculating, I think, the kids that are going to come up behind them.
Why are more people today that are pro-life? Why are 72% of those under 30 pro-life? Planned Parenthood cannot lie to them. Young people have become ever more sophisticated with their messaging. The abortion industry is spending millions and millions of dollars trying to shape their opinion, but they can’t. And why not?
Because so many of them have direct experience with abortion, whether it was their own abortion or an abortion a friend had. You cannot lie to somebody after they’ve been directly involved in abortion.
The abortion industry is good at silencing them. But we are going to end abortion. And it’s going to happen so fast. I think we’re approaching the tipping point. The key to the ending of abortion is the voice of the post-abortive woman, because the culture of death is supported by this worldview of relativism.
But moral relativism only accepts personal experience as truth. So they hear the women who’ve had abortions. The dictatorship of moral relativism—within its own self, it cannot silence the subjective opinion of women who have had abortions. That’s why I [also] think the testimony of men who’ve had abortions is so strong."
Creation requests the honor of your presence at the birthday celebration of the Son of God, also known by humanity as
The King, Immanuel, Eashoa Mesheekhah, Jesus the Christ, Savior,
The Messiah.
Jesus requests you love and honor him at this celebration and always.
“My beloved, please;
feed the hungry,
heal the sick,
clothe the poor,
care for those the world does not, the orphan and the widow.
Love my Father with all your heart.
Love your neighbor as you love yourself.
Do not forget to tell everyone about Me!”
R. S. V. P. as soon as possible by saying,
”Yes, yes, yes.”
Merry Christmas from us to you the year through!
1 Corinthians 12:4-7 (NASB)
"Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord. There are varieties of effects, but the same God who works all things in all persons. But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good."
Have you ever been perplexed as to exactly what a spiritual gift is or what your spiritual gift or gifts might be? If so, I want to invite you to join me at a workshop that Immanuel Church of Gurnee, IL, is hosting in conjunction with Precept Ministries International on Friday, November 7 from 9:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m. The workshop is called Finding Your Place of Service in the Church. Using basic inductive Bible study methods, it will focus on the foundational elements of spiritual gifts as taught in the Scriptures.
I'm really jazzed about this workshop for a few reasons. First, God started working in my life in some incredible ways when I finally started understanding what gifts I have that I should be using, as well as which gifts I don't have that I should be letting other people use! There is a huge freedom in being able to be who God made you to be and to be able to relax in that. I no longer feel compelled to be what I never was intended to be. Know what I mean?!
I'm also stoked because this is a FREE workshop--costs you nothing at all but your time! If you're interested in joining us, you can send me an e-mail or call Precept direct at 888-678-5660.
Hope to hear back from you as to where you are reading in the Word today AND that you'll be joining us at the Finding Your Place of Service in the Church workshop!
In His Grip,
pam
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Human Dignity on the Sceptred Isle
The Brits may be losing their marbles. The distinguished Baroness Warnock, labeled by the Daily Telegraph as Britain’s leading moral philosopher, ought to be ashamed of herself.
You see, Lady Warnock once chaired a government committee that helped legalize embryonic research. She’s known for supporting assisted suicide for people don’t want to burden their caregivers.
But now Lady Warnock has gone a step further. She says elderly people who suffer from dementia are “wasting people’s lives”—that is, the lives of those who care for them—and ought to choose to die even if they’re not suffering.
And even if they aren’t a burden on their families, they ought to “off” themselves anyway, as she puts it, because they’re a burden on the public, which, under British national health care, pays for their treatment. According to the Daily Telegraph, Warnock hopes people will soon be “licensed to put others down.”
Putting others down? That’s the kind of euphemism we use when talking about injured horses or sick dogs. It’s not how we talk about human beings—or at least, it’s not how we used to talk about them.
At age 84, Lady Warnock is old enough to remember Hitler’s Final Solution—and the thinking that drove the slaughter, not only of the Jews, but also of the handicapped, gypsies, and others the Nazis considered “defective” or “useless.”
But even though Lady Warnock should remember World War II, she evidently has forgotten its terrible lessons. Given her despicable recommendation for the elderly, she ought to hope that her memory issues aren’t related to dementia.
Thankfully, at least a few Brits are outraged by Warnock’s comments, calling them—in typical British understatement—both callous and deeply ignorant. Neil Hunt, a spokesman for the British Alzheimer’s Society, says to suggest that people with dementia “have some sort of duty to kill themselves is nothing short of barbaric.”
More ominously, a spokesman for a British right to life group said Warnock’s views “are an illustration that while euthanasia is promoted as a right to choose, it pretty rapidly becomes” an obligation to die.
This tale out of England is also a dire warning about what happens when countries nationalize health care. There’s never enough money to go around—and some bureaucrat at the top is always going to start making choices about who gets to live and who’s going to die. If those targeted for death don’t go willingly, well, they will need to be encouraged to die—or they might get a visit from someone “licensed to put others down.”
Has the Western world truly sunk this low? Do we ever need a more vivid reminder of the tremendous importance of worldview?
Either all human life—from unborn children to demented mothers and fathers—is created in the image of God and therefore infinitely precious, or humans are nothing but the result of mere chance, indistinguishable morally from a sand flea. The choice society makes will determine whether the most vulnerable among us will be respected and protected . . . or whether we will “put them down” when they become a burden.
We Christians must speak out as others—especially those in authority—move us closer and closer to compulsory killing.
If we do nothing, it’s evidence that perhaps we’ve all lost our marbles.
I am hoping we come to our senses, look at our socialistic neighbors on this continent and abroad, and really examine what it means when government becomes the benefactor of its citizens instead of the other way around.
Did we not leave the monarchies so that we could govern ourselves? Are not the immigrants of today choosing the United States because the United States allows choice and opportunity? Is it not the sole role of Yahweh to grant life and to take it away?
Taking a stand and remembering He who is my HOPE,
k8t
They blame the economic crisis on “irresponsible greed,” “poor political management,” and the “lack of regulatory policies.” They sound eerily like our presidential and vice-presidential candidates. But, they’re actually members of Socialist International – a group that says the world is not merely experiencing an era of change, but the change of an entire era.
Truly, the world seems to be moving toward socialism and away from capitalism. And, the United States – for decades the global model of capitalism – is following right along. This week, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson coerced nine major banks to sell some of their shares to the federal government. Add to this the billion-dollar bailouts of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Bear Stearns, and AIG, and the United States is beginning to resemble a socialist republic. Meanwhile, the U.S. presidential frontrunner this week told an already over-taxed plumber in Ohio, he’ll raise his taxes to (quote) “distribute the wealth.”
For those of us who have studied history, these developments are chilling. Every time socialism has advanced, personal liberty has declined. But, it’s hard to defend capitalism when it’s allegedly caused so much grief to so many people. And as Christians, how can we support a system that’s spawned so much greed?
But is capitalism really to blame for the current economic crisis? French President Nicolas Sarkozy doesn’t think so. He said, “The financial crisis is not the crisis of capitalism. It is a crisis of a system that has distanced itself from the most fundamental values of capitalism.”
Capitalism results when private persons own the means of production and the government has very limited power. But, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – the two companies that caused the sub-prime mortgage crisis – are government-sponsored enterprises. They are by their very nature socialistic, not capitalistic. Fannie and Freddie made irresponsible loans largely because the government was backing those loans, eliminating all risk.
But even if capitalism is not the culprit for the financial meltdown, that doesn’t make it ethical. After all, capitalism relies on greed and self-interest. Socialism, on the other hand, relies on people acting according to the common good. Socialism sounds Christian. And in fact, it was the politic of the early church, which “had everything in common and gave to anyone as he had need.”
But in secular society, socialism simply doesn’t work. Unregenerate man is a slave to sin. He will not work unless he has incentive. And collectively, he will not govern benevolently because he is not benevolent. Trusting government to take and redistribute everyone’s money equitably betrays a woeful misunderstanding of man’s basic nature.
People in a capitalistic system are free to pursue their own interests, but they’re also free to give and to care for the needy. Certainly, this license can and has been abused, and the government needs to provide some checks and balances. But our founding fathers believed God endowed each person with three basic rights that our growing government now threatens – the right to life, liberty, and property. Roe v. Wade removed the right to life. Now, this administration and the next may threaten our right to property. Is it any stretch to think that our liberty may be targeted next? For Moody Radio, I’m Julie Roys.
